Farthest North - in 20 parts, 1898
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Author: Nansen, Fridtjof
Title: Farthest North - in 20 parts
Place Published: London
Publisher:George Newnes, by arrangement with Archibald Constable
Date Published: [1898]
Description:
Author: Nansen, Fridtjof
Title: Farthest North - in 20 parts
Place Published: London
Publisher:George Newnes, by arrangement with Archibald Constable
Date Published: [1898]
Description:
20 volumes. Various paginations. Illustrated profusely with plates, text illustrations, and from photographs. (8vo) original illustrated wrappers, adverts on endpapers, housed in cloth slipcase.
Also included is a clipped signature of Nansen, dated Feb. 8, 1898. Full set of the original 20 individually issued volumes. Laid in plates and maps in vols. 1 and 7 lacking. Translation of "Fram over Polhavet, den Norske Polafaerd 1893-96." 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.
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Light wear and soiling to slipcase; wear and soiling to wrappers, staple oxidation, chips and some tears, mostly at edges, large chips and missing pieces from rear wrapper of Vol. 1, some spines partially perished; soiling and occasional light foxing to interiors, small chips and tears at edges; overall about good.
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Farthest North - in 20 parts, 1898
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