Farthest North
NANSEN, Dr Fridtjof
“Farthest North” Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Month Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.
London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1898
8vo., 2 vols; original dark aqua publisher’s cloth over bevelled boards; elaborately decorated, lettered and bordered with a design in red, silver and gold featuring an ice-locked ship, frosted titles, shining star and rope border to upper cover; repeated to spine with a figure standing on an ice block with a telescope; all edges gilt; textured black endpapers; black and white frontis to both volumes, together with approximately one hundred and twenty full page and in-text illustrations, as well as coloured plates in facsimile from Dr. Nansen’s own sketches, maps and diagrams; pp. [ix], x-xv, [ii], 2-480; [vi], vii-viii, [i], 2-456; very good, complete with the colour folding map, here detached and found in neat custom pocket affixed to rear paste-down of Vol I (a little spotted and browned, with some paper repairs to verso); the bindings a little grubbied, with some rubbing and bumps to corners; some tiny nicks to spine ends; upper edges a touch dust soiled; ever-so-slightly shaky in the bindings, with rear gutters a touch cracked, but holding firm; some early ownership names and markings to front fly-leaves; ink shelf number to half titles; a few light brown marks internally, mostly affecting the verso of coloured plates.
Second UK edition, and the first to be specially designed and bound in this highly decorative cloth. This the variant with black endpapers and all edges gilt.
Nansen’s account of his perilous journey into the frozen polar ice cap aboard the Fram, together with the Norwegian’s 15 month-long sleigh dash to the North Pole. Inspired by the fate of Jeanette, an American vessel sunk off the coast of Siberia which reemerged three years later off the coast of Greenland, Nansen’s plan to reach to the pole was to use transpolar drift, deliberately freezing the Fram into the pack ice and wait for it to follow the same course. With a design deliberately constructed to withstand the pressure of the polar ice, the ship emerged after three years of imprisonment almost entirely unscathed. Although Nansen and his colleauge Hjalmar Johansen ultimately failed in their attempt to reach the pole, they did reach a farthest north record of 86°13.6′N, before they retreated to the Russian Archipeligo of Franz Josef Land.
A nice example in the attractive binding.
NANSEN, Dr Fridtjof
“Farthest North” Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Month Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.
London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1898
8vo., 2 vols; original dark aqua publisher’s cloth over bevelled boards; elaborately decorated, lettered and bordered with a design in red, silver and gold featuring an ice-locked ship, frosted titles, shining star and rope border to upper cover; repeated to spine with a figure standing on an ice block with a telescope; all edges gilt; textured black endpapers; black and white frontis to both volumes, together with approximately one hundred and twenty full page and in-text illustrations, as well as coloured plates in facsimile from Dr. Nansen’s own sketches, maps and diagrams; pp. [ix], x-xv, [ii], 2-480; [vi], vii-viii, [i], 2-456; very good, complete with the colour folding map, here detached and found in neat custom pocket affixed to rear paste-down of Vol I (a little spotted and browned, with some paper repairs to verso); the bindings a little grubbied, with some rubbing and bumps to corners; some tiny nicks to spine ends; upper edges a touch dust soiled; ever-so-slightly shaky in the bindings, with rear gutters a touch cracked, but holding firm; some early ownership names and markings to front fly-leaves; ink shelf number to half titles; a few light brown marks internally, mostly affecting the verso of coloured plates.
Second UK edition, and the first to be specially designed and bound in this highly decorative cloth. This the variant with black endpapers and all edges gilt.
Nansen’s account of his perilous journey into the frozen polar ice cap aboard the Fram, together with the Norwegian’s 15 month-long sleigh dash to the North Pole. Inspired by the fate of Jeanette, an American vessel sunk off the coast of Siberia which reemerged three years later off the coast of Greenland, Nansen’s plan to reach to the pole was to use transpolar drift, deliberately freezing the Fram into the pack ice and wait for it to follow the same course. With a design deliberately constructed to withstand the pressure of the polar ice, the ship emerged after three years of imprisonment almost entirely unscathed. Although Nansen and his colleauge Hjalmar Johansen ultimately failed in their attempt to reach the pole, they did reach a farthest north record of 86°13.6′N, before they retreated to the Russian Archipeligo of Franz Josef Land.
A nice example in the attractive binding.
NANSEN, Dr Fridtjof
“Farthest North” Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Month Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.
London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1898
8vo., 2 vols; original dark aqua publisher’s cloth over bevelled boards; elaborately decorated, lettered and bordered with a design in red, silver and gold featuring an ice-locked ship, frosted titles, shining star and rope border to upper cover; repeated to spine with a figure standing on an ice block with a telescope; all edges gilt; textured black endpapers; black and white frontis to both volumes, together with approximately one hundred and twenty full page and in-text illustrations, as well as coloured plates in facsimile from Dr. Nansen’s own sketches, maps and diagrams; pp. [ix], x-xv, [ii], 2-480; [vi], vii-viii, [i], 2-456; very good, complete with the colour folding map, here detached and found in neat custom pocket affixed to rear paste-down of Vol I (a little spotted and browned, with some paper repairs to verso); the bindings a little grubbied, with some rubbing and bumps to corners; some tiny nicks to spine ends; upper edges a touch dust soiled; ever-so-slightly shaky in the bindings, with rear gutters a touch cracked, but holding firm; some early ownership names and markings to front fly-leaves; ink shelf number to half titles; a few light brown marks internally, mostly affecting the verso of coloured plates.
Second UK edition, and the first to be specially designed and bound in this highly decorative cloth. This the variant with black endpapers and all edges gilt.
Nansen’s account of his perilous journey into the frozen polar ice cap aboard the Fram, together with the Norwegian’s 15 month-long sleigh dash to the North Pole. Inspired by the fate of Jeanette, an American vessel sunk off the coast of Siberia which reemerged three years later off the coast of Greenland, Nansen’s plan to reach to the pole was to use transpolar drift, deliberately freezing the Fram into the pack ice and wait for it to follow the same course. With a design deliberately constructed to withstand the pressure of the polar ice, the ship emerged after three years of imprisonment almost entirely unscathed. Although Nansen and his colleauge Hjalmar Johansen ultimately failed in their attempt to reach the pole, they did reach a farthest north record of 86°13.6′N, before they retreated to the Russian Archipeligo of Franz Josef Land.
A nice example in the attractive binding.