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Rare and modern books

Nansen

FARTHEST NORTH: Being a Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey.

Archibald Constable and Co., 1897

874.50 €

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(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1897
Place of printing
Westminster
Author
Nansen
Publishers
Archibald Constable and Co.
Edition
A HANDSOME FIRST EDITION COPY of the account of this highly
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

2 volumes. First edition. 16 chromolithographic colour plates from Nansen's own sketches, 120 plates, a profusion of illustrations in text, 4 large folding coloured maps at the rear of the volumes. Royal 8vo, publisher's original turquoise green cloth lettered in gilt on spines and covers with gilt pictorial decorations of the Fram and a journey through the drift-snow on the covers of both volumes. 510; 671, including index pp. A very handsome set, the cloth is bright and well preserved with no fading whatsoever and only very light evidence of use or age, two corners just a bit bumped, internally very clean and solid and in excellent order, folding maps all very well preserved.