Fridtjof Nansen's "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 Liet. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram &c.: in Two Volumes; Vol. I with Vol. II Two Volume set
1897ref. 88351New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1897. First American Edition. Two Octavo volumes 24cm; dark gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and titling and decorations stamped in gilt silver red and green on spines and front covers; top edges gilt; fore- and lower- edges untrimmed; xviii5871pp; xiv729112-4pp; all black-and-white and colorful illustrations present and complete throughout both volumes with four folded illustrated maps tucked into folders of Vol. I. The Map showing the 'Route of the Fram' has multiple 2.5" tears and there are tiny holes to creases of all four of the folded maps. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplates to front pastedowns of both volumes. Vol. I has modest shelf-wear and -soil with rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Vol. II has shelf-wear with -soil modest rubbing to board edges and cracked hinges with start of text beginning to disconnect; Good. Significant 19th-c. narrative of polar exploration. Nansen wrote Farthest North in two months following his trip on the Fram with Johansen and crew. HOWGEGO Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850 to 1940 N3. 88351. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
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