Grönland. Seine Eiswüsten im Innern und seine Ostküste. Schilderung der zweiten Dickson schen Expedition ausgeführt im Jahre 1883.

NORDENSKIÖLD, Adolf Erik Freiherr von

Verlag: Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1886

Beschreibung

FIRST GERMAN EDITION. 8vo, xiii, [1], 505, [1] pp., with half-titile, 200 engraved illustrations printed either on plates out of the text, many in full-page format, or in the text, in the case of smaller engravings. 6 coloured maps, 2 of which being folding (one bound at end) and 1 being fold-out. Decorated endpapers and marbled edges. Original publisher's red cloth (blindstamp of the Baumbach bookbindery of Leipzig on rear cover) with blind-ruled borders on lower board and elaborate Greek key border tooled in black on upper cover, engraved vignette gilt-blocked on board centre together with title and author's name. Same Greek key pattern to spine head and tail with gilt letterings and the Danish royal flag in the middle. A fine copy. First published in Swedish, this is the scarce German edition of this rare book on Greenland, its inland ice deserts, and its Eastern coast. The description is based on the reports of the second Dickson expedition to Greenland, carried out in 1883. Baron Oscar Dickson, of Scottish origin, sponsored Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's explorations to the Canadian and the Russian Arctic and Greenland, as well as Fridtjof Nansen's Polar journey on the ship called Fram. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1606063986444

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Grönland. Seine Eiswüsten im Innern und ...

Verlag: Leipzig, Brockhaus

Erscheinungsdatum: 1886

Einband: Rilegato

Zustand: ottimo

Auflage: prima edizione