NORDENSKJÖLD, Otto.

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Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse Schwedischen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. First edition of the complete set of scientific reports from Otto Nordenskjöld's Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-3. Although well represented institutionally, we can trace no complete comparable copies in commerce; a superb set in the original wrappers, uncommon in such exceptional condition.The Swedish expedition was led by geologist Otto Nordenskjöld and captain Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to the region in the heroic age of Antarctic Exploration. Nordenskjöld and Larsen set out with a large crew and seven scientists, including geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson, zoologist Karl Andreas Andersson, meteorologist Gosta Bodman, and botanist Carl Skottsberg. The expedition set out in the same year as Scott's Discovery expedition, William Speirs Bruce's Scotia voyage, and the first German Antarctic expedition, led by Erich von Drygalski. "The shore party remained over two winters, and their adventures - the destruction of their ship by ice, the dispersion and remarkable reunion of three separate groups at Snow Hill Island on November 8, 1903, relief through the Argentine ship Uruguay, and the rescue four days later of fourteen of the ship's crew... evoke comparison with Sir Ernest Shackleton's adventures in the same locale twelve years later" (Books on Ice).Nordenskjöld's goal was primarily scientific inquiry as opposed to commercial exploitation. "The scientific work of the Swedi

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