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

walking in one case well rubbed

in one case well rubbed

of author's first book

All edges gilt

Four colour plates by Jan Gordon

panels of which are clean and uncreased although there is some rubbing to the head of the spine and the fold of the fore-edge

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<br /><br /> walking in one case well rubbedLondon: George Newnes, 1898. Two volumes. Second UK edition, issued a year after the first. 8vo. Vol 1, pp. xv, 480; Vol 2, pp. viii, 456. Original greenish blue 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, edges of text block sprinkled red. One chromo lithographed plate and about 120 illustrations and vignettes in the text, many full