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Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. Farthest North Volume I (1). Archibald Constable And Company, 1897.
Price: US$36.07 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1897. No Edition Remarks. 510 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering and designs. Volume I. Rough-cut pages. Black and white and colour illustrated plates. Minor foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking and staining to gutters and hinges causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with noticeable splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$48.69 + shipping
Description: 250mm x 170mm (10" x 7"). xiii, 510pp. Numerous b/w photographs and drawings. N.B.: Heavy book-extra shipping needed for overseas. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Browning to prelims. Small tear to rear fold out map. Ownership details on fep Brown hardback half-leather cover
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume I only. Bound in publishers blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Good binding and cover. Shelfwear. Hinges cracked. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spine. Fading to spine. Owners name to inside board and FEP. Foxing to prelims. Clean, unmarked pages. Both maps called for in Volume I are present and in near fine condition. Ships daily.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$86.58 + shipping
Description: 250mm x 170mm (10" x 7"). 671pp. Numerous b/w photgraphs, drawings and two fold out coloured maps. Expedition to reach the North Pole. Fridtjof Hansen was a Norwegian explorer, a professor of zoology and oceanography, and a prime mover in Norwegian's independence from Sweden. In 1893, Nansen and Johansen set out to reach the North Pole. In their ship Fram, they made fast to an ice floe to the north of Siberia. After drifting north with the ice, they left the ship and pushed further in kayaks and sleighs, reaching the highest latitude thus far (86ø14ïN) in 1895. This is the record of that voyage and the fifteen month sleigh journey, copiously illustrated and including several of Nansen's own sketches. It includes an appendix by the captain of the Fram. No air-support, no satellite navigation - just awe-inspiring determination and a wonderful read. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Light wear to spine ends. Edge staining to frontis plate. Slight darkeningbto page ends Blue hardback cloth cover, gilt pictorial design and lettering
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Fridtjof Nansen. Farthest North. Archibald Constable, 1897.
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 volume set bound in original decorative green cloth. 3/4 maps present, 1 missing.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Fridtjof Nansen. Farthest North. Archibald Constable, London, 1897.
Price: US$115.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Account of the three year expedition to the north pole. Two volumes in very good condition with no inscriptions. All plates present but one folding map from volume 1 is missing. Small patch of spotting limited to a few pages in volume 1. 509 pages and 671 pages. Size: 6.5" x 9.5"
Seller: Bosco Books, Looe, CORNW, United Kingdom
Price: US$122.38 + shipping
Description: xiii, [iii], 510pp; xiii, [ii], 671pp. Etched frontis. portrait, 16 coloured plates, 120 full page plates, numerous text illustrations,and 2 of 4 maps . Heavily stamped with Macclesfield Young Mens Christian Association Library stamps to plate margin and titles etc. Publisher's gilt pictorial turquoise cloth with gilt block of The Fram in the lower corner of volume one and a man with sledge and dogs on volume two. Photos on request. READING COPY ONLY Size: Large 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Farthest North Vols.I and II. The Voyage & Exploration of the Fram 1893-96 & The Fifteen Months Sledge Expedition. Published 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company. Volume I - Blue-green boards are moderately bumped and rubbed to extremities with some loss at the corners and foot of the spine, some staining to show. Both boards are a bit hinged but still well attached. Bright gilt titles to front board with gilt stamped illustration of a sailing ship titled “The Fram”. Interior is clean excepting the occasional small stain and bit of foxing and a 6cm by 2.5cm semi circular moisture stain to the bottom of the frontis. Tissue guard to the frontis sports a short tear. Colour plate no.iv is loose. Blank page in front of the fold-out maps at the rear has a large piece missing. Maps are intact. Volume II - Blue-green boards are moderately bumped and rubbed to extremities. Some shelfwear to show. Head and tail of spine are rubbed with small chips and short tears to the head. Front board is slightly hinged, rear board is moderately hinged but still well attached. Gilt titles to spine are very slightly faded. Bright gilt titles to front board with gilt stamped illustration of a man and dog team pulling a sledge titled “Northwards through the drift snow”. Interior is clean excepting the occasional small stain and bit of foxing. Tissue guard on frontis. Previous owner’s neat name in ink to the ffep. Fold-out maps to the rear have been re-attached and show a few short tears and a bit of chipping to one edge. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen was an explorer, scientist, inventor and a world class athlete. His water colour illustrations painted on the expedition and included in the books are quite stunning. He and his entire crew returned safely some three years later to great acclaim for the successful voyage. These two volumes are in Good Plus to Very Good condition. Please inquire for shipping costs to your address.
Seller: Bailey Books, St.Albert, AB, Canada
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "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', approximately 120 full page and numerous text illustrations, 16 coloured plates in facsimile from Dr Nansen's own sketches, etched portrait, photographs and maps. Boards rubbed in places, corners and spine ends bumped, gilt lettering to head of front boards and to spine, gilt illustration to corner at foot of front boards, closed edges at head browned, spotting to uncut closed edges, previous owner's name label to front pastedowns, light spotting to endpapers, title pages, frontispieces with tissue guards, Volume I - black/white image of author, Volume II black/white image entitled, 'Sailing Kayaks'. Pages clean, text clear to read, folded colour maps to rear of volumes in very good condition, closed tear to head of one map, pp secure in binding. Size: 8vo Thick
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$171.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-1896. Two matching volumes in dark blue with gilt lettering and decoration, Corners are lightly bumped and worn, Volume II is rubbed on both front and rear covers. Sound binding, includes all four required colour fold-out maps (one with tear in plain area next to gutter) etched and photogravure frontispieces, sixteen colour plates and also black and white plates and illustrations within text. Foxing to prelims. in both volumes, pages and end-papers are otherwise clean. 2-volume set (complete). No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-4kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 61121091022. For International tracked shipping please select the Priority shipping service. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.
Seller: Bailgate Books Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Price: US$174.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1897. Archibald Constable and Co . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Green boards. Gilt titles. Boards marked. Edgewear. Spine worn. Previous owners name on front inside page. End pages discoloured. Slight end page foxing. Foxing throughout. Page edges marked/foxed. 9x6.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: No marks or writing, clean tight binding; grn; edge wear and spit cloth on spint; front endhsheet missing and foxing on; Very good volumes; one mape has a tear on a blank edge;; 120 full page illus with 16 colored plated and etched portrait photos; fold out mapes in both volumes; fabulous account of the hardships of these travels with excellent photos and detail documentation; ; Vol. 2 Good+ cloth gutter, some rubbing on back cloth pages
Seller: The Book Chaser (FABA), Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$179.72 + shipping
Description: ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 3.8kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback. Physically 9¾" x 6½" (3.8 kg); (xiii/xiii) 510/671pp; Index; Includes: Tissue-guarded Frontispieces; Black & white photographs; Colour plates (16); Black & white plates; Tables; Fold-out maps (4); || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #190819|| Condition: Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the bindings of both volumes with volume two a shade darker in the binding. A little age-toning to the edges of the text blocks. Contents clean and bright despite the limited age-toning.
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
Price: US$186.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression, two-volume set with original boards with blocked gilt illustration of The "Fram" to front board and gilt letters to spine of Vol I and blocked gilt illustration of "Northwards through the drift-snow" to Vol II; scuffing to extremities; bindings sound; no previous owner's marks to front end papers; tight text block with some spotting to pages; all four maps and plates called for present.
Seller: M&B Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: About 120 full page and numerous text illustrations, 16 bright color plates, portrait, maps. Bound in green cloth with gilt title and stamped illustration on front and gilt titles on spine. Two fold-out color maps at end of each volume. Light wear on bottom board edges; light foxing on preliminary pages and on foredges, and a few other pages, but mostly a nice clean, straight set. No international shipping.
Seller: Old Algonquin Books, Arvada, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$206.12 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Soft cover periodical set: No date but circa 1890s. Pale blue/grey illustrated covers, each part illustrated with black and white, colour plates ands sketches. Interesting periodical advertisements. Very scarce in the original 20 parts, published fortnightly in parts. 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. Issued in 20 parts. Complete with the coloured plate presented with Part 1. Covers and page edges tatty, grubby, nibbled with odd piece missing. Overall in good condition considering the age and fact it was sold as a "periodical" in various parts. PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2997. This is a SET of books, therefore heavier than a standard volume, and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
Seller: Polar Books, Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Price: US$221.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "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.] FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes. Quarto (25 x 18 x 12cm) Numerous illustrations and 4 folding maps, several in colour. . A used but presentable set; owner inscription to first volume, bindings with acceptable wear , spines a little frayed, tanned edge paper. One map has a tear to the page that attaches to book, no content affect, other maps very good condition no faults. Published by Archibald Constable and Company. Inv U5A4. This is a heavy item it will require extra shipping abroad. UK postage cost already included ."
Seller: Eurobooks Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes (xiii, 587, xiii (3), 671 pages. Large 8vo. Frontispiece in each volume (one etched, one engraving). "About 120 Full-page and numerous Illustrations, 16 Colored Plates in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches, Etched Portrait, engravings, and Maps". Folded Maps at end of vol. 1 and vol. 2 (Missing 1 folded map in vol. 1). Original green cloth with gold lettering on top and spine. Gilt vignette of the "Fram" on top cover of vol. 1, of a polar scene on top of vol. 2. Newspaper clippings related to Major Frederick George Jackson who rescued Nansen in 1894. "Narrative of the First Fram Expedition, 1893-96, 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.". They achieved the closest approach to the North Pole at that time
Seller: 2Wakefield, Wakefield, QC, Canada
Price: US$251.21 + shipping
Description: [Polar Travel] FIRST EDITIONS. 2 volumes. Quarto (25 x 18 x 12cm) Numerous illustrations and 4 folding maps, several in colour. Publisher's blue/green cloth with gilt illustration to upper. A used but presentable set; contents shaken within case, owner inscription to first volume, bindings with acceptable wear and soiling, spines a little frayed, tear to head of joint (volume two). An inexpensive and presentable copy of the first edition. Fridtjof Nansen; Zoological scientist; Polar Explorer; Norwegian Delegate- Société des Nations; and originator of 'Nansen passports' (for refugees), was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1922. Listed number 11 in National Geographic's 100 Greatest Adventure books.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 2 vols.; VG-; mid-20th century rebacking of dark green leather, with raised bands and gilt lettering and design; previous boards in green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and design preserved; corners mildly bumped; spines slightly cocked; some foxing and fingerprint stains throughout; contains black and white photos, color maps, and color plates; shelved above Spain. 1348490. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$302.31 + shipping
Description: Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. Roy. 8vo. Orig. gilt-illust. green cloth with gilt titled spines (top and bottom edges chipped). With frontisp. portr., 16 coloured full-page plates, 111 b/w full-page plates, 92 text-illusts and 4 col. maps. 1st ed. (The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-1896). Previous owners name and date on front fly leaf of Vol. I. Previous owners bookplate on front end-papers of both volumes. Light foxing on end-papers, otherwise a good set. Partly unopened. NOTE: Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (1861-1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League of National High Commissioner.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$313.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Westminster Archibald Constable 1897. Condition: Very Good. Clean copy - tight Harcover binding with clear and complete text. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Description: xv, 510pp, xv, 670pp, 16 coloured plates, 120 full page illustrations, numerous text illustrations, 4 folding maps, original decorative green cloth with bright gilt, small blemish on one spine, very clean internally, VG+. An attractive set. . Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.
Seller: Glacier Books, Pitlochry, United Kingdom
Price: US$347.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Archibald Constable and Company. London, 1897. Very Good. Two volumes in very good condition. All maps present with no repairs and only one or two foxing spots. Occasional foxing evident but pages mostly clean and securely bound. Green cloth rubbed at edges and worn at spine ends. No ink inscriptions or book plates. A handsome set.
Seller: Scarthin Books ABA, ILAB., Cromford, United Kingdom
Price: US$367.15 + shipping
Description: Two Volumes, First Editions, Volumes 1 and 11: Hardbacks, green silk bds., gold illustration on front bds., gold titles on spine and front bds., 170 x 245 mm., 3.5 kg. (extra postage), 510 and 671 pp. with Index, Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of The Fram, illustrated with about 120 full page and numerous text illustrations, 16 coloured plates in facsimilie from Dr. Nansen's own sketches, etched portrait, photogravures and 2 large coloured, pull-out maps in rear of both volumes, (4 maps in total as published), tipped-in onto Vol.11 half-title a 2 page advertising pamphlet entitled Ice-Bound on Kolguev by Aubyn Trevor-Battye, dated 1895, published by Constable, mottling to to bd. edges on vol.11, light edge wear, no dws., VG/G+ copies.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.66 + shipping
Description: and numerous text illustrations. Sixteen coloured plates in facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches. Etched portrait photogravures and maps. Light staining of few leaves of. volume 2. Two volumes. XIII, (3), 510; xiii, (3) 671 pp. Original blue pictorial cloth. Top of the spines with slight damage and fading.Title printed in red and black. FIRST EDITION. Owner's inscription of E. M. Gibbon. A remarkable sincere detailed report of that dangerous journey which lead to important discoveries.The book was a great success, so numerous editions followed, but were not printed in the same elegant way. Printing and the Mind of Man 384 (Norwegian edition, same year.) First english edition.
Seller: Meiwes, Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$380.04 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. The first UK publication of Nansen's famous journey to try to reach the North Pole. Each volume is in fine or near-fine dark-green cloth with gilt spine lettering and front-cover vignettes, some light corner wear as expected. The pages are very clean, the endpapers lightly browned, the four maps are present at the rear of the volumes, the colour plates (16 in all) are present, as are the numerous black-and-white photographs, drawings and sketches in each book. An unusually nice set of this account of one of the greatest feats of Arctic exploration.
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Description: Thick 8vo.xiii, 510pp, xiii, 671pp. Illustrated with some one hundred and twenty full page and numerous text illustrations. Sixteen coloured plates in facsimile from Dr Nansen's own sketches, etched portrait, photogravures and folding maps.In dark green pictorial cloth gilt. A near fine bright set. Heavy volumes please allow for extra postage particularly if ordering from abroad.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$418.69 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Two volumes. Publisher's original blue-green ribbed cloth, the spines lettered in gilt and with titles and illustration in gilt to the upper boards. Page edges untrimmed. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece portrait, 16 chromolithographs, 112 plates, 4 folding coloured maps and numerous in-text illustrations (entirely complete). A better than very good set, the bindings square and firm with a little bumping to the spine tips. The cloth and gilt very bright and fresh. The contents, with previous owner's bookplate and small inscription in ink to the front free endpaper of each volume and some foxing to the prelims and closed page edges, are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. The folding maps, with a little minor creasing and toning to the blank margin of two, are otherwise in excellent, clean condition. The plates are likewise fresh and bright. An account of the Norwegian explorer's 1893-96 Fram expedition to the North Pole. A classic work of polar exploration, superbly illustrated. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$418.69 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Two volumes. Publisher's original blue-green ribbed cloth, the spines lettered in gilt and with titles and illustration in gilt to the upper boards. Page edges untrimmed. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece portrait, 16 chromolithographs, 112 plates, 4 folding coloured maps and numerous in-text illustrations (entirely complete). An excellent near fine set, the bindings square and firm, with bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The cloth and gilt remain bright and fresh. The contents, with a pencilled name to the front endpaper and corner of the pastedown in both volumes, are lightly spotted and toned to the pastedowns, endpapers and closed text block. The folding maps, with some toning to the verso of one map in volume II and a 3.5cm tear to the margin of another in volume I, are otherwise bright and clean throughout. An account of the Norwegian explorer's 1893-96 Fram expedition to the North Pole. A classic work of polar exploration, superbly illustrated. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North. Upton Sinclair, Station A, Pasadena, 1897.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen. 2 Volumes. First edition in original dark green cloth. Publisher: Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1897. Binding is in near fine condition. Contents clean, occasional light foxing, six digit number in ink on ffep on both volumes. 4 folding maps bound in back. Title-page indicates about 120 full page and numerous text illustrations. Sixteen coloured plates in facsimile from Dr. Nansens own sketches. Etched Portrait frontispiece.510, 671 pages. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #15-389. Price: $450. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "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" by Fridtjof Nansen. 1897 1st edition; Archibald Constable and Company; Westminster, UK. Complete set in two volumes. A custom slip case has been made to house the volumes. The set is rchly illustrated with "about 120 full page and numerous text illustrations" as well as 16 color plates "in facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches." There are also photogravures, two folding color maps at the back of each volume (four color maps total), and an "etched portrait" frontispiece of Nansen in volume I. All folding maps are present and securely attached; all color plates are present. Also included is an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the 'Fram.' Each volume comes with a clear, protective sleeve over the covers. Found within the pages was an original order form for the book "Ice-Bound on Kolguev" from the same publisher. The contents are as follows: VOLUME I: Introduction; Preparations and Equipment; The Start; Farewell to Norway; Voyage through the Kara Sea; The Winter Night; The Spring and Summer of 1894; Second Autumn in the Ice. VOLUME II: We Prepare for the Sleigh Expedition; The New Year 1895; We Make a Start; We Say Goodbye to the Fram; A Hard Strugle; By Sledge and Kayak; Land at Last; The New Year, 1896; The Journey Southwards; Report of Captain Otto Sverdrup; Conclusion. Condition: Overall the set is in Good condition. VOLUME I: there are a few light stains on the covers; a bit of mild mottling to the cloth on the covers (these are tiny patches where the green cloth color has faded.these are not stains); tight binding with no loose pages; crack at front hinge between end paper and pastedown - despite the crack, the front cover is still firmly attached; back cover firmly attached; occasional mild foxing to the pages; smudge at top-left corner of front end paper; light tanning to front end paper, heavier tanning to rear end papers. VOLUME II: some mottling to the cloth on the covers; small ding/dent at the left edge of the back cover; crack at front and rear hinges between the end papers and pastedowns resulting in the covers being shaky; occasional mild foxing to the pages; tanning to end papers; smudge/stain at upper-outer corner (on both sides) of the last folding map; page xiii has a 2" tear at the outer edge; list of maps page has a 1" tear at outer edge.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition. Illustrated, with maps and charts at rear, and "Kart over Nordpolaregnene" (Christiania, 1896) laid-in. 2 vols. Thick 8vo. The first English edition of Nansen's account of his polar expedition abord the Fram and his subsequent attempt on the North Pole by dog sledge. He reached 86°13.6â N, at that time the furthest point north reached by man. PMM 384 (Norwegian edition) Publisher's blue-green cloth, gilt. Covers tender, light edgewear, with tear to cloth at head of vol. I spine, some soiling to covers Illustrated, with maps and charts at rear, and "Kart over Nordpolaregnene" (Christiania, 1896) laid-in. 2 vols. Thick 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 2 volumes: xiii, 510 pp. and viii , 671 pp., Full green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to front boards. Edges speckled. 16 plates in colour and b&w (complete) and numerous in text illustrations, alongside folding maps to the rear of both bindings. Rubbing to the spine and edges with some fraying and markings to the cloth. Foxing to the prelims, edges and very occasionally throughout. Small 4to.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$503.85 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition; Roy. 8vo; Volume I. pp. xvi, 510; Volume II. pp. xvii, 671; portrait frontispiece, title pages printed in red and black, 16 coloured full-page plates, 111 b/w. full page plates, 92 text-illustrations, and 4 coloured maps, both volumes bound in their original green cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines and upper boards, gilt stamped decoration on upper boards, edges uncut, some light foxing on early pages, name Beaumont neatly signed on to the top of both title pages, cloth of volume two a little creased on upper board, otherwise a good set. Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893-1896 was an attempt to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east-west current of the Arctic Ocean. Nansen took his ship Fram to the New Siberian Islands in the eastern Arctic Ocean, froze her into the pack ice, and waited for the drift to carry her towards the pole. Impatient with the slow speed and erratic character of the drift, after 18 months Nansen and a chosen companion, Hjalmar Johansen, left the ship with a team of Samoyed dogs and sledges and made for the pole. They did not reach it, but they achieved a record Farthest North latitude of 86°13.6'N before a long retreat over ice and water to reach safety in Franz Josef Land. Meanwhile, Fram continued to drift westward, finally emerging in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1897 1ed Farthest North Fridtjof Nansen Arctic North Pole Fram Expedition Eskimo Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian arctic scientist who voyaged throughout the North and was one of the most famous polar explorers of the 19th-century. During the Fram Expedition, he encountered large Eskimo populations, learning from them and their nomadic tendencies in the New Siberian Islands, in search of the North Pole. Nansen made extensive records of this journey which were published under the title Farthest North . Item number: #40245 Price: $599 NANSEN, Fridtjof Fridtjof Nansen's 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 Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete; 2 volumes o Vol. I xiii, [3], 510, [2] 47 full-page illustrations 8 chromolithographs 2 folding maps o Vol. II xiii, [3], 671 2 folding maps 8 chromolithographs 64 full-page illustrations References: National Maritime Museum I-991; Smith 7207; Arctic Bib. 11983; Ricks p 161 Provenance: Handwritten J.D. Chambers, 1899 Language: English Binding: Hardcover; secure o Teal cloth Size: ~9.75in X 7in (24.5cm x 18cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 40245 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$610.50 + shipping
Description: 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [ix]-xiii, [3], 510, [1 leaf]; 2 p.l., [vii]-xiii, [3], 671, [1]. with half-title in Vol. II. etched frontis. portrait, 16 chromolithographs, 4 folding coloured maps, 112 plates (incl. photogravure frontis. in Vol. II) & numerous text illus. original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (rubbed, spines discoloured, Grosvenor Gallery Library labels on rear covers, Vol. II front hinge cracked, frontis. outer edge bit ragged & with dampstain). First Edition of the English Translation. "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 Bib.) Nansen and Lieut. Johansen made a sledge journey toward the North Pole and wintered on Franz Josefs Land, 1895-96. National Maritime Museum I 991. Smith 7207. cfArctic Bib. 11983. cfRicks p. 161.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North. London Archibald Constable and Company 1897, 1897.
Price: US$618.37 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition in two volumes. One hundred and twenty full page and numerous text illustrations with sixteen coloured plates, etched portrait, photgravures and maps. Half bound in dark blue morocco with blue covers. Raised bands, gilt ships in four compartments. Gilt titles direct to spine in two compartments.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: First edition, preceding the first edition in Norwegian of the same year. Nansen's expedition was a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration, undertaken to investigate "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). "Nansen returned to international acclaim not only for the voyage itself but for its results, proof of a deep Arctic Ocean, free of any land masses or islands, and extensive data on magnetism, zoology, and oceanography. His account of the journey, Farthest North, was a worldwide bestseller and prepared him for an effective life of diplomacy" (Books on Ice). Farthest North, the official account of the first Fram expedition, is beautifully illustrated from photographs and from Nansen's own sketches, for which he "claims no artistic merit," but which are nonetheless highly atmospheric and effective. Like many of the polar books from the heroic age, this is a superbly produced work. Arctic Bibliography 11983; Books on Ice 5.2; Howgego III N3; Printing and the Mind of Man 384; Taurus 24. 2 volumes, octavo. Original bluish green vertically ribbed cloth, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, pictorial block in gilt on front covers (of the Fram on vol. I and "Northwards though the Drift-Snows" on vol. II), top and fore edges untrimmed. Etched frontispiece in vol. I, photogravure frontispiece in vol. II, 127 plates of which 16 in colour, 4 folding colour maps, illustrations in the text; titles printed in red and black. Slightly rubbing and marking, front cover of vol. I sunned, occasional foxing, cracked to cords in a few places, 1 folding map with repair to stub (not affecting image). A very good copy with the gilt bright.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$837.37 + shipping
Description: First edition, preceding the first edition in Norwegian of the same year. Nansen's expedition was a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration, undertaken to investigate "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). "Nansen returned to international acclaim not only for the voyage itself but for its results, proof of a deep Arctic Ocean, free of any land masses or islands, and extensive data on magnetism, zoology, and oceanography. His account of the journey was a worldwide bestseller and prepared him for an effective life of diplomacy" (Books on Ice). Farthest North, the official account of the first Fram expedition, is beautifully illustrated from photographs and from Nansen's own sketches, for which he "claims no artistic merit," but which are nonetheless highly atmospheric and effective. Like many of the polar books from the heroic age, this is a superbly produced work. Arctic Bibliography 11983; Books on Ice 5.2; Howgego III N3; Printing and the Mind of Man 384; Taurus 24. 2 volumes, octavo. Original bluish green vertically ribbed cloth, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, pictorial block in gilt on front covers (of the Fram on vol. I and "Northwards though the Drift-Snows" on vol. II), top and fore edges untrimmed. Etched frontispiece in vol. I, photogravure frontispiece in vol. II, 127 plates of which 16 in colour, 4 folding colour maps, illustrations in the text; titles printed in red and black; apt clippings loosely inserted. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedowns. Very minor rubbing, maps with short closed tears or neat repairs to stubs, not affecting printed area, cloth particularly bright. An excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$874.50 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First edition. 16 chromolithographic colour plates from Nansen's own sketches, 120 plates, a profusion of illustrations in text, 4 large folding coloured maps at the rear of the volumes. Royal 8vo, publisher's original turquoise green cloth lettered in gilt on spines and covers with gilt pictorial decorations of the Fram and a journey through the drift-snow on the covers of both volumes. 510; 671, including index pp. A very handsome set, the cloth is bright and well preserved with no fading whatsoever and only very light evidence of use or age, two corners just a bit bumped, internally very clean and solid and in excellent order, folding maps all very well preserved. A HANDSOME FIRST EDITION COPY of the account of this highly important journey to prove that a drift-current sets across the polar regions from the Bering Strait and the neighborhood of the New Siberia Islands towards the east coast of Greenland. Nansen's theory was based on a number of indications, not the least of which was the discovery of portions of the wreck of the "Jeannette" which had been lost off the New Siberia Islands in 1881 but which were found on drift ice off the south-west coast of Greeenland. His ship, the "Fram" was specially built of extraordinarily strong materials and of a design to be lifted by rather than crushed by the ice. The success of the theory, the expedition and the trek made northward over the ice on foot to a point farthest north is related in these two fine volumes. The text is accompanied by a profusion of fine illustration of which many are executed in color.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.