Item #52462 Farthest North being a record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram ... and of a fifteenth month's sleigh journey. Fridtjof Nansen.
Farthest North being a record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram ... and of a fifteenth month's sleigh journey

One of the most celebrated gilt decorated bindings of the period

Farthest North being a record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram ... and of a fifteenth month's sleigh journey

London: George Newnes, 1898. 2 volumes, 8vo; 1 color plate, frontispieces and about 120 full page and text illustrations, large folding map of the Arctic regions, slight rubbing at extremities, light foxing to folding map, generally a fine, very bright copy in what must be one of the most celebrated gilt decorated bindings of the period, showing the ship Fram locked in the ice; original teal blue cloth stamped in gilt, silver and red, a.e.g. First published in Norway in 1897. See Printing and the Mind of Man 384: "His idea was deliberately to allow the ship to be frozen into the ice-pack, and then to drift across the Arctic region." Item #52462

Price: $350.00

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