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HOVGAARD, A. Nordenskiold's Voyage round Asia and Europe.A Popular Account of the North-East Passage of the Vega, 1878-80. Translated from the Danish by H.L.Braeksted.
London, Sampson, Low,[&c.], 1882. First edition in English. 47 wood-engraved illustrations, many full-page with a sepia tint, 3 coloured maps (2 folding), liv,(2),293,(3)pp., inner hinges cracked but very firm, 8vo., publisher's dark olive pictorial cloth slightly marked, spine sunned to brown. A very good copy of a very uncommon book. ¶ A remarkable voyage from Stockholm up and across the arctic sea north of Siberia, through the Bering Strait, and back via Japan, China, Singapore, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. All but the last few pages describe the explorations and adventures of the Siberian part of the voyage.
Offered for AUD 300.00 = appr. US$ 239.10 by: David Spode (ANZAAB/ILAB) - Book number: 5740