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NANSEN, Fridtjof.
"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.
Publisher: London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897
Stock code: 66637
Price: £350 Currency Conversion
First edition in English, published in Norwegian in the same year. "Narrative of the First Fram Expedition, 1893-1896, led by Nansen, with the object of investigating the polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the New Siberian Islands across or near the Pole." (Arctic Bibliography) Described by PMM as "A remarkable achievement in Polar exploration," recorded here in an extremely handsome form, illustrated from photographs and from Nansen's own sketches, for which he "claims no artistic merit," but which are nonetheless highly atmospheric and effective.
2 volumes octavo, original green combed cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, gilt pictorial vignettes to the upper boards. Etched portrait frontispiece to Volume I, photogravure frontispiece to Volume II, 127 plates, 16 of them coloured lithographs, 4 folding coloured maps, 2 at the rear of each volume. Slightly rubbed at the extremities, front hinges just starting, mild lean, light toning, some preliminary spotting, one map torn on the -stub, but repaired verso with archival tissue, but overall a very good, sound set.
