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NANSEN, Fridtjof (1861-1930). Eskimo Life. Translated by Wi...

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MARSHALL, John (1755-1835). The Life of George Washington. Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne,: MARSHALL, John (1755-1835). The Life of George Washington. Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, 1804-1807. 5 volumes 8vo (218 x 132 mm). Engraved portrait of Washington after Gilbert Stuart in Vol

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NANSEN, Fridtjof (1861-1930). Eskimo Life. Translated by Wi...

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NANSEN, Fridtjof (1861-1930). Eskimo Life. Translated by William Archer. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893.

8vo. 16 plates. Original gilt-decorated green cloth (spine gently darkened, spine slightly skewed).

FIRST EDITION in English containing detailed sociological and cultural commentary on the Eskimo in Greenland as observed by Nansen in the late nineteenth century. A scarce title in this condition. Arctic Bib. 11979.

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Name: NANSEN, Fridtjof (1861-1930). Eskimo Life. Translated by Wi...
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