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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: Archibald Constable and Company, Westminster;
Date of Publication: 1897
Stock Code: 14809
First British edition, after the first Norweigan of 1896-7. Royal octavo, two vols, pp., xiii, [3], 510, [2]; xiii, [3], 669, [1]. Etched and photogravure frontispieces, retaining tissue guards, 16 full-page chromolithographic plates by McLagan and Cumming, 111 half-tone, lithographic and photogravure plates after photos, drawings, and etchings by J. Nordhagen, H. Edigus, Otto Sindig et al., 4 colour-printed folding lithographic maps, illustrations, charts, and diagrams within text. Collated and complete. Publisher’s turquoise green cloth; titled in gilt to spine and upper board; gilt vignette of the Fram to upper board of first volume; gilt vignette of sled dogs to upper board of second volume. Small bookseller’s label of James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow to corner of front paste-down of each volume. Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf-wear to spine-tips, top edges dusty; cloth bright and rather fresh. Occasional spotting to edges, but contents generally clean and neat. A very good set. A well-produced set from the heroic age of Polar Exploration. The narrative of the First Fram Expedition of 1893-6, containing descriptions of Nansen’s voyage from Norway across the Kara Sea to the New Siberian Islands, Nansen’s sled journey to the North Pole, wintering on Franz Joseph’s land, supplemented by extracts from Nansen’s diary and an account by Otto Sverdrup on the Fram’s drift in the ice. Nansen achieved a ‘farthest north’ of 83 deg, 13.6’ which stood for five years. ‘A remarkable achievement in Polar exploration’. (PMM 384). £250.00