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NANSEN, Fridtjof.. IN NORTHERN MISTS .. WILLIAM HEINEMANN ., LONNDON., 1911.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The natural foundation of a history of Arctic voyages was to make clear the main features in the development of knowledge of the north in early times.4to.Pp, xi, [1], 384. vol 1 of 2 vol set. Frontispiece tipped in . Original blue cloth covered boards ,half moon illustration gold sky with ship and mountain. title in gold lettering on front and spine.Front and rear free end paper's are offset rear paper is the more badly marked.Tail head and fore edges are spotted . Some foxing through out although generally book is clean .
Seller: Highstreet Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. Tipped-in color frontispieces, 10 x 7.5", gilt-dec blue cloth, 384pp; 416pp with index, covers a bit rubbed, spines darkened, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, pp spotted (esp. at textblock edges) else a decent, usable set.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 415 p. 27 cm. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and numerous b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with black and gold impressing. Corners bumped, edges worn, tears in spine ends. Front hinge cracking internally. Ink signature on front pastedown. Roughened text block edges. Topics include Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, Eskimo and Skraeling, decline of the Norse settlements in Greenland, Norwegians in the White Sea, whaling and sealing, the north in maps of the Middle Ages, John Cabot, Portuguese discoveries.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 383pp; 415pp. Small quartos in decorative gilt-stamped blue cloth. Fraying to spines at tips, corners lightly exposed; hinges softened, bookplates on front pastedown, light foxing throughout. B&W illustrations. Two volume set.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$205.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st UK Edition; Vol I xi, 384pages; Vol II 416pages, illustrated, coloured frontispieces, b/w text illustrations. Original cloth covers, no dust jackets. Both volumes, shelf wear, end paper hinges splitting, covers fraying, corners bumped, previous owners bookplate on verso front cover. some very minor foxing, mainly to prelims and tissue guards. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2634. 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
Nansen, Fridtjof. In Northern Mists (2 volumes). William Heinemann' London 1911, 1911.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition ed. good condition in somewhat worn & waterstained blue cloth
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION, 1911, 4to, in 2 volumes,(I&II). I:pp xi+383; II:pp 415. Blue cloth boards with gilt semicircular decoration of (midnight?) sunrise and gilt titling to front (edged in blind), gilt titling to spine. Boards clean and bright, minimal age-toning and rubbing. A few insubstantial liquid spots to front of (I), showing light blue above and at top edge of sun's rays. Endpaper hinges starting to give in places, revealing some binding in (I), less so in (II). Tipped-in frontis with tissue guards. Light foxing to edges of block and a sporadic speckling throughout, chiefly to page margins. Overall, very tidy and presentable copies.
Seller: FARRAGO, HUDDERSFIELD, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 Vols, 384 & 416 pp.+ Tipped-on Color Plt at Frontis of both volumes (With Tissue Guards), & Many Other Illus, Orig Blue Hardbacks with Gilt Illus of Midnight Sun on F Cover, Gilt title on Spine, 4to, (7.75 x 10.2 Inches), owner namestamp else VG & Tight, no DJ, 1st ed (Nice)
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Description: Two Volumes, First Editions, Volumes 1 and 11: Hardbacks, blue bds., gold titles and illustration on front bd., gold spinal titles, 180 x 255mm., 3.2kg. (extra postage), 384 and 416 pp., with Index, tipped-in colour frontis on both vols. and illustrated throughout with numerous line drawings in the text, slight loss of colour to edges of bds., and light edge wear, no dws., VG copies.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Price: US$468.75 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, 8vo, 2 vols, mounted color frontispieces and numerous illustrations and maps throughout text; bottom edge of front cover of vol. II with 3" abrasion along the bottom edge of the front board, else a near fine, bright copy in original pictorial blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine, top edges blue. A translation of the author's Nord i Taakeheimen (Kristiania, 1911). Arctic Bibliography, 11993.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$555.00 + shipping
Description: 2 Volumes. large 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., vii-xi, 383, [1]; 3 p.l., 415 [1]. with half-titles. 2 tipped-in colour frontis. numerous text illus. & maps. untrimmed in original black & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities very slightly rubbed & frayed, dampmark to lower outer corners of Vol. I covers). First Edition of the English Translation. Arctic Bib. 11993. ODea 1515. National Maritime Museum I 1067.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$834.12 + shipping
Description: First English edition, 2 volumes, 4to. Coloured frontispieces tipped in plus black and white illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth, gilt spine titles, upper covers with a gilt vignette and title and rules in black, damp stain to the edge of the spine of volume I, otherwise a very good set still with their d.w.'s, these showing some light marking and stains to the spines, otherwise sound. The larger version of the two binding variants with the title in black to the upper covers. The wrappers were seemingly produced for the smaller binding, hence looking slightly too small for this set. Nevertheless an unusual survival.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$890.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good, Clean, Some Edge Wear To Covers, Partially Unopened, Some Foxing To Vol. I and I I Frontis Tissue Guards, Quarto, Blue Cloth, Gilt Color Lettered And Decorated, Two Volumes, PP.425,xi,383, Tipped On Color Frontis Vol. I and I I With Tissue Guards, Numerous Text Figures, Map, Nansen was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Led Team to be the first to Cross the Interior Of Greenland in 1888, and had a long career after his exploring days that are related by him in this two volume set. He introduced new cold weather methods and Clothing; His high profile in world politics aided in his support of Norwegian Independence from Sweden
Seller: Terrace Horticultural Books, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1045.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First Edition. Ann Savours Shirley's Copy, a copy with pleasing provenance.Ann Savours Shirley's Copy, a copy with pleasing provenance. Tipped-in color frontispiece in each volume, numerous illustrations in text. Royal 8vo, publishers original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, lettered and decorated in gilt on upper cover featuring a Northern sunrise. xi, 383; 416 including index pp. A handsome, well preserved and proper set, the text blocks sturdy and quite fresh, the cloth handsome and pleasing with a bit of expected age only, the gilt lettering and motifs to the covers bright, the black decorations clean and unblemished, a bit of mellowing to the spine panel lettering. A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SET IN THE POLAR OEUVRE. THIS COPY WITH THE PREFERRED GILT DECORATIONS TO THE UPPER COVERS. Nansens most significant biographer described him as the man who, "in the teeth of skepticism and discouragement harder to face, perhaps, than the Arctic ice-pack and the month-long night, [led] the way into the very heart of the polar fastnesses.in one stride enormously reduced the unconquered distance, and.demonstrated the justice of his theory.from [his initial] campaigns [he returned] never [losing] a Norwegian life." This significant explorer, pushed the limits of arctic exploration, despite the discouragement of his peers. Although best known for his skills in arctic climates, Nansen was also a scholar in the history of the north. In these volumes he traces the history of arctic voyages from antiquity to 16th century exploration. "By tracing how ideas of the northern world, appearing first in a dim twilight, change for age to age, how the old myths and creations of the imagination are constantly recurring,sometimes in new shapes, and how new ones are added to them,we have curious insights into the workings of the human mind and its endeavor to subject to itself the world and the universe." (preface) Ann Margaret Savours Shirley was a British historian of polar exploration, covering both the Arctic and Antarctic. She was most widely known for her study of Robert Falcon Scott's ship HMS Discovery. Ms. Shirley was curator of manuscripts at the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University from 1954 to 1966. In 1970, she became an assistant keeper at the National Maritime Museum, where in 1973 she was appointed custodian of manuscripts. In 1977, she was placed in charge of the Arctic gallery. She was a member of the Cambridge Spitsbergen Physiological Expedition in 1955 and the Australian National Antarctic Expedition in 1960. She was also an honorary research fellow at the Australian National University in 196061 and served as a member of council of the Royal Geographical Society in 197880. She was also a member of the council and a vice president of the Hakluyt Society and of the Society for Nautical Research.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1604.08 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. xi, 384; [5], 416pp. With tipped-in colour frontispieces and numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Without the rarely seen dustwrappers. A trifle rubbed and bumped. Endpapers browned. Bookplate of Antarctica explorer and member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst (1887-1975) to FEP, contemporary inked gift inscription addressed to Brocklehurst to recto of FFEP. A crisp copy, with remarkable Polar provenance, of the first edition in English (published at the behest of the Royal Geographical Society and in the same year as the Norwegian original) of Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen's (1861-1930) historical survey of the exploration of the Arctic from classical antiquity to Cabot and the Portuguese discoveries in the north- west, and includes an account of the Viking discovery of America. Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst (1887-1975), Antarctica explorer and a shore party member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition, for which he was awarded the Silver Polar Medal in 1909. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$3006.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st UK Edition. xi,384; (vi)416pp. Tall octavo. Two volumes, Bound in original blue cloth with gold gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Head and base of spine and cover corners with very minor rubbing and minor bumping. Endpapers foxed and toned as usual. Top of text block darkened and dust soiled. Colour tipped-in frontispieces clean and bright; overlaying tissue guards intact. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings, charts and maps. Volume II has a two-page, four-sided August 1911 Heinemann catalogue listing the book laid in with this title listed. A very nice, attractive copy. Arctic Bibl. 11993. A history of arctic voyages from original sources, often translated specifically for Nansen. Covers the discovery of Iceland and Greenland in the Middle Ages, the decline of the Norse settlements in Greenland, early whaling and sealing, etc. Wonderfully inscribed by Nansen, in the year of publication, to Lord Edward Grey, Liberal parliamentarian, Foreign Secretary, and leader of the House of Lords. Inscribed association copies are very uncommon.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada