Author: Nansen, Fridtjof.
Title: THE FIRST CROSSING OF GREENLAND. Translated from the Norwegian by Hubert Majendie Gepp.
Description: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890. 1st UK Ed. 2 vols. xxii + 510pp. + 24pp. publ. catalogue + x + 509pp. Port frontiss., 10 plates, 4 folding maps [only of 5, lacking route map], numerous ills. Vol. 1. with pp.135-148 stained and sl. wrinkled with wrinkling intruding sl. onto adjacent leaves, some foxing, repair to verso of map, modern e.ps., rebound in blue buckram, portions of original worn cloth laid down to upper boards and spines, t.e. silver. ¶ Introduction by J. Scott Keltie. Arctic Bibliography 11985 ‘... with the additions of a preface by J Scott Keltie, a chapter on ‘The Eskimo of Greenland, index and tables of illustrations.’

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