Farthest North in 2 vols Harper & Bros 1897
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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: New York
Publisher:Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1897
Description: 2 volumes. x, [4], 587; x, [2], 714 + 4 ad. pp. Illustrated with numerous photo plates & illustrations, chromolithograph plates, etched frontispieces with tissue guards plus 4 folding maps loose as issued in cover pockets of vol I. 23.7x16.5 cm (9¼x6¼“), original gray cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, silver gilt, green and red, top edges gilt, bottom and fore edges untrimmed. First U.S. Edition.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. Pencil ownership marks from previous owners on free endpaper.
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: New York
Publisher:Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1897
Description: 2 volumes. x, [4], 587; x, [2], 714 + 4 ad. pp. Illustrated with numerous photo plates & illustrations, chromolithograph plates, etched frontispieces with tissue guards plus 4 folding maps loose as issued in cover pockets of vol I. 23.7x16.5 cm (9¼x6¼“), original gray cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, silver gilt, green and red, top edges gilt, bottom and fore edges untrimmed. First U.S. Edition.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. Pencil ownership marks from previous owners on free endpaper.
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Light shelfwear, maps with gentle but uneven toning, several tears at folds, some repaired with adhesive strips; near fine.
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Farthest North in 2 vols Harper & Bros 1897
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