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 with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.

Nansen, Fridtjof.

Verlag: Harper & Bros.,, New York:, 1897

Beschreibung

518 pp. + 714 pp. 1st US Edition; first printing. Dark gray boards with red, green, and silver decorative stamping front cover; gilt lettering across spine; 2 tiny closed tears tail of spine; former owner signature first blank sheet (Robert B. Bowman). 120 full page and numerous other text illus., 16 colored plates, etched portrait, photogravures, and 4 loose maps in protective pockets. Original Cloth. Condition: Both vols. near fine. A bright set of the first US edition. A most handsome and collectible documentation of historical significance. All four folded maps present. Arctic Bibliography 11983; The Nobel Laureate's (Peace Prize) account of his three-year long expedition. In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and so drift North. Given up for dead, he traveled 146 miles farther north than anyone else in the past four hundred years. 120 full page illus., 16 colored plates, etched portrait, photogravures, and 4 loose maps in protective pockets. Top edges gilt, two sides uncut; Vols. 1 & 2; xiv, 588; xii, 714; 4 pp advertisement pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5899

Bibliografische Details

Titel: FARTHEST NORTH: Being the Record of a Voyage...

Verlag: Harper & Bros.,, New York:

Erscheinungsdatum: 1897

Einband: Hardcover.

Zustand: Near fine.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near fine.

Auflage: 1st U.S. ed.