Fridtjof. Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdr

by NANSEN

£500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

a 'remarkable achievement in polar exploration' NANSEN, Fridtjof. Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram . Westminster, Constable and Company, 1897. 8vo, 2 volumes. Original green cloth gilt, upper board lettered in gilt, vol. I blocked in gilt with design of the Fram , vol. II blocked in gilt with design of dogs, sledge and driver, spines lettered in gilt; pp. xiii, [3], 510, [2]; xiii, [3 (blank], 671; etched portrait frontispiece in vol. I and photogravure frontispiece in vol. II, both retaining tissue guards, 16 colour-printed lithographic plates by McLagan Cumming, 111 half-tone, lithographic and photogravure plates after J. Nordhagen, H. Egidius, Otto Sinding, et al ., 4 folding colour-printed lithographic maps by John Bartholomew Co, illustrations, diagrams and charts in the text, some full-page, titles printed in red and black; lower outer corners with slight bumps, the binding otherwise very sharp and clean, occasional light spotting internally, far less than usually encountered, a little offsetting from endpapers, a very good set in the original cloth with contemporary bookplates of Frederick Arthur Robinson inside front covers and the author's obituary pasted onto front fly-leaf of volume one. First English edition . First published in Norway under the title Fram over polhavet, den norske polar

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