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Amundsen, Roald.
The Northwest Passage,
Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co, London;
Date of Publication: 1908
Stock Code: 4609
FIRST EDITION in English. Octavo. Volume I: xiii, 335 pp,.[1]; Volume II: ix,[1], 397 pp, [1]. Illustrated with 139 plates including frontis to each with tissue guard; fold-out maps in colour to rear. Two volume matching set in green cloth with gilt titles and decoration and detail in green and red to upper boards. Teg. Other than a small nick to head of spine Vol I and v lightly sunned spines a fine copy. Plate of Men’s Fellowship “Davie Library” circulating library to each front pastedown; a little foxing & staining to endpapers otherwise contents clean and bright. Vol I map split at fold approx 2 inches and torn to margin at joint also approx 2 inches; Vol II map torn approx 3 inches at margin.
Classic work on the first successful expedition to traverse Canada’s North West Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the celebrated Norwegian explorer, later the first undisputed person to reach both poles. Sold