Farthest North - 1st US Edition
by Nansen, Fridtjof
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine. 1897. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. A bright set of the first US edition in Nearly Fine condition. A most handsome and collectible documentation of historical significance. All four folded maps present. Arctic Bibliography 11983; The Nobel Laureate's 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 and numerous text illus, 16 colored plates, etched portrait, photogravures, and 4 loose maps in protective pockets. Top edges gilt, two sides un-cut; Vol. 1 & 2; 8vo; xiv, 588; xii, 714, 4 pp advertisement pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29722
- Title
- Farthest North - 1st US Edition
- Author
- Nansen, Fridtjof
- Format/Binding
- Original Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st US Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, North Polar Expedition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel / Polar Travel & Exploration; By Year Of Issue / 1890s;
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