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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. About one hundred and twenty full page and text illustrations and coloured plate in facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches.

Nansen, Fridtjof · London

Author
Nansen, Fridtjof
Date
1898
Place
London
Publisher
George Newnes, Ltd.
Language
English
Binding
8vo. (6" x 9") Publisher's original turquoise cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, decorative details on spines in gilt and silver, front covers elaborately blocked in gilt, silver, and red, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Map in back of volume I lacking!
Format
Second British edition, the first to be bound in the distinctive, elaborately decorated cloth.
Category
Travel & Exploration
Record
S.I.9600

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. About one hundred and twenty full page and text illustrations and coloured plate in facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches. Fridtjof Nansen. 1898. London: George Newnes, Ltd. 8vo. (6" x 9") Publisher's original turquoise cloth over beveled boards, spines lettered in gilt, decorative details on spines in gilt and silver, front covers elaborately blocked in gilt, silver, and red, black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Map in back of volume I lacking! Second British edition, the first to be bound in the distinctive, elaborately decorated cloth.

Condition

Good+

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