Author: Nansen, Fridtjof and Otto Sverdrup
Title: 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
Description: New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. Hardcover. Dark navy or black boards with gilt spine lettering. No dj. Two volumes. ix./587 pp. and x./721 pp. Many bw illus and 16 color plates. Four maps in pockets in the first volume. A neat, intact, two-volume set of this classic true tale of adventure and discovery. Lots of illustrations and the above-mentioned colored plates - which are presented with this publisher's caveat, "The Author had not originally contemplated the publication of the colored sketches which are produced in this work. He has permitted their reproduction because they may be useful as showing color effects in the Arctic; but he wishes it understood that he claims no artistic merit for them." A great addition to the text!!. G+. Edge wear and bumping to boards, with some fading to covers. Moderate foxing to edges of text blocks. Vol. I frontispiece loose. Pages 38-58 are loose (but bound together) and are laid in. Tissues intact over plates, with foxing to some tissues and BACK of plates which does not detract from plate image. Markings and notations on the end pages.
Keywords: Travel; Fram; Autobiography; Exploration ; Arctic Exploration ; ;
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Title: 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
Description: New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. Hardcover. Dark navy or black boards with gilt spine lettering. No dj. Two volumes. ix./587 pp. and x./721 pp. Many bw illus and 16 color plates. Four maps in pockets in the first volume. A neat, intact, two-volume set of this classic true tale of adventure and discovery. Lots of illustrations and the above-mentioned colored plates - which are presented with this publisher's caveat, "The Author had not originally contemplated the publication of the colored sketches which are produced in this work. He has permitted their reproduction because they may be useful as showing color effects in the Arctic; but he wishes it understood that he claims no artistic merit for them." A great addition to the text!!. G+. Edge wear and bumping to boards, with some fading to covers. Moderate foxing to edges of text blocks. Vol. I frontispiece loose. Pages 38-58 are loose (but bound together) and are laid in. Tissues intact over plates, with foxing to some tissues and BACK of plates which does not detract from plate image. Markings and notations on the end pages.
Keywords: Travel; Fram; Autobiography; Exploration ; Arctic Exploration ; ;
Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 165977
- Book number: 165977
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