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Farthest North in 2 vols Harper & Bros 1897
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
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2 volumes. x, [4], 587; x, [2], 714 + 4 ad pp. Numerous photo plates & illustrations, chromolithograph plates, etched frontispiece; 4 folding maps loose as issued in cover pockets. 24x16.5 cm. (9½x6¼"), original gray cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, silver, green and red, top edges gilt. First American 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.

Condition
Cloth with some light rubbing to extremities; a bit of offsetting to endpapers, ownership signature; some toning/offsetting to maps; near fine.
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