Author: NANSEN Fridtjof
Title: Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-96 and a of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
Description: Constable,, 1897. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with an etched portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), titles in red and black, 16 coloured plates, very numerous illustrations (several full-page) in the text and 4 folding coloured maps (one map neatly repaired on reverse and loosely inserted); original green pictorial ribbed cloth, upper boards blocked and lettered in gilt, backstrips lettered in gilt, uncut, expertly recased with new endpapers to style, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy.

Keywords: travel, exploration, polar, arctic, nansen, fram, otto sverdrup, fridtjof nansen


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