Nansen's Farthest North in 2 vols, London 1898
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Author: Nansen, Fridtjof
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
Place Published: London
Publisher:George Newnes
Date Published: 1898
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2 volumes. xv, 480; viii, 456 pp. Illustrated with 117 plates from photos and chromolithographs, frontispieces with tissue guards, as well as numerous illustrations and photographs throughout the text; color folding map at rear of vol I. 22.5x15 cm (9x6"), original elaborately decorated blue cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt, silver gilt, green and red, all edges stained red; patterned endpapers.
Translation of Fram over Polhavet, den Norske Polarfaerd 1893-96: "Narrative of the First Fram expedition, 1893-1896, led by Nansen, with the object of investigating the polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the New Siberian Islands across or near the Pole." The bright chromolithograph plates offer views of arctic mornings and evenings, northern lights, walruses, etc. Arctic Bib. 11983. Ownership marks on endpapers
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