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Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London. S.W Partridge and Co. 1898. Third Edition. Fifteenth Thousand. Abridged from the Larger Work. Hard Cover. Decorative red boards with bordered vignette of ship at sea to the upper board and circular bordered vignette of Nansen to the spine. Gilt titles. Blind stamped design under vignette. Black publishers device to the rear board. Boards have some wear at the spine ends and corners. Covers are a little marked. In about very good condition. Monochrome photographic frontispiece of Nansen and many more in the text as chapter head and tail pieces as well as full page reproductions. Sunday school prize paste down to the front endpaper dated 1899. Attractive pale green floral endpapers. Scanty darkening and spotting; minor. Publisher's ads to the rear. Tiny blind stamped Joyful News, Book Depot, Rochdale with 1/6 in pencil adjacent. Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis. His techniques of polar travel and his innovations in equipment and clothing influenced a generation of subsequent Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.
Seller: Libris Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good Copy in green cloth on bevelled boards with attractive illustrated cover and spine. Spine is rubbed at head/foot. Small split along upper spine edge. Crack in rear hinge. Coloured end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w illustrations and colour illustration opposite half title page.
Seller: Balfour Books, Sidmouth, DEVON, United Kingdom
fridtjof nansen. farthest north volume 11. newnes, london, 1898.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, illustd, viii,456pp, orig blue green decorated cloth, little edge rubbed and aged but binding good and gilt good and clear , small bit of foxing to first and last leaves, contents good and clean, a good plus copy , good enough to go with the easier to find volume 1 . images can be sent, heavy volume overseas orders will incur extra postage request.
Seller: Peter Sexton, arlington, United Kingdom
Price: US$97.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New impression of Nansen's 1890 account of his crossing of the interior of greenland. With numerous b/w illustrations within the text and a map. Bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edges. Inner and outer dentelles. 8vo. Manchester Grammar school crest to cover and prize plate to front pastedown. Rubbing to edges and spine. Contents clean and tight. Good+
Seller: AJ Scruffles, Leigh On Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1898 George Newnes first edition thus set of two volumes hardbacks, matching green bevelled-edge boards with silver, red and gilt illustration of the ship on the front, no dj; red mottled page edges, many illustrations; good condition, there is some wear to the boards' corners and spine ends; Vol 1 has a tear to the fep and the map is missing; Vol 2 is very good inside; UK dealer, immediate dispatch
Seller: Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.21 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2 Volumes. About 120 full page and numerous text illustrations and colour plate in facsimile from Dr. Nansens own sketches and maps. Volume 1:xv, colour plate, 480pp. Map Tear to bottom inner edge page 479 and small tear inner edge map. Volume II . viii, 456. Paper wear to inner edge fep/ffep. usual paper discolouring to fep's on both volumes. Really lovely decoration to green buckram to both volumes (the best I have seen not only for this title but many others. Please see photographs showing 2 volumes, spines, volumes 1 and 2 and both title pages) folding to spine at spine ends. Bevelled boards. The 1898 edition is often described as First but is not, The John Constable printing of the previous year is first. These are 2 very heavy volumes and at 3kg post, packing and insurance will be more than quoted by abe and not suitable for export as economy post cannot be insured.
Seller: Chris Barmby MBE. C & A. J. Barmby, Kent, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.77 + shipping
Description: Hard Back. The second UK edition issued a year after the first although the first to be bound in a distinctive decorative cloth. Original green cloth over bevelled boards with decorative details in gilt and silver to the spines with the front boards elaborately blocked in gilt, silver, and red. The cloth is very lightly worn to the extremities with a little discolouration to the rear. The spines have darkened a touch with slight shelf wear to the top and base. The top edge of the text block is gilt and is a little dull. Internally the binding is tight. The pages are lightly toned especially to the endpapers with foxing to the prelims and very occasionally throughout. Pages otherwise are very clean. Coloured folding map to the rear of volume one is present although with a slight closed tear and a little foxing. Illustrated with chromolithographic plate and many illustrations within the text, some full page. Volume I, pp. xv 480. Volume II, pp. viii 456. Overall a good set. This is the official account of Fridtjof Nansen's first Fram expedition of 18936 and his account of the journey became a world wide bestseller.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: George Newnes Ltd., 1898, Second UK Edition, Two Volumes. Second UK edition, issued the year after the first. This edition is the first to be bound in the distinctive, elaborately decorated, cloth, here found in notably bright condition. Publishers full cloth binding, gilt titles, gilt illustrated upper board, plain paste downs and end papers, frontispiece in each volume, Vol. I frontispiece with the printed signature Author. This is the official account of the first Fram expedition of 1893-1896, "a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration" (PMM). The expedition was undertaken "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 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 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. It was originally published in both the UK and Norway in the previous year. Arctic Bibliography 11983; Books on Ice 5.2; Howgego III N3; Printing and the Mind of Man 384 (for the Norwegian edition). Two volumes, octavo. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, titles to spines gilt, decorative details to spine in gilt and silver, front covers elaborately blocked in gilt, silver, and red. Frontispiece to each volume and 100 full-page plates, numerous smaller illustrations within the text, colour folding map at rear of volume I. A little rubbed, corners bumped, spines a touch dulled, large folding maps with closed tears (see photos) and misfolded to Vol I. Vol. I xv, 480pp. Vol. II viii, 456pp Approximately 9 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles, gilt illustration, bruised top and tail with some small tears at the top of both volumes. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition gilt titles with gilt illustrations to the upper boards of both volumes, rear volumes are plain, bevelled edges. Page edges good condition top edges darkened, all speckled. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition intact. Paste downs good condition plain white in Vol. I and plain brown in Vol. II, lightly tanned on the white pages. End papers good condition plain white in Vol. I and plain brown in Vol. II, lightly tanned on the white pages. Title good condition lightly tanned. Pages good condition portrait frontispiece in Vol. I, frontispiece Sailing Kayaks in Vol. II, numerous illustrations and plates throughout with a folding colour map at the rear of each volume, lightly tanned throughout. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1898 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Price: US$513.10 + shipping
Description: Second UK edition, issued a year after the first, and is the first to be bound in the distinctive elaborately decorated cloth. This is the official account of the first Fram expedition of 1893-6, "a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration" (PMM). The expedition was undertaken "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 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 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 (for the Norwegian edition). 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, decorative details on spines in gilt and silver, front covers elaborately blocked in gilt, silver, and red, all edges sprinkled red. Chromolithographed plate, colour folding map at end of vol. I, illustrations in the text, many full-page. Cloth lightly rubbed, mottling to spines, marks to lower board of vol. I, scattered foxing, creasing of colour plate, three tears to folding map. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$684.99 + shipping
Description: London, George Newnes, 1898. 8vo, two volumes. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, upper boards blocked in gilt, silver and red, with vignettes depicting Fram icebound, spines blocked in gilt and silver with titles and vignettes, patterned endpapers, all edges speckled in red; pp. [xv, 480; viii, 456; portrait frontispiece in volume I and monochrome frontispiece in II, 64 monochrome plates, one colour-printed plate (all in pagination), one colour-printed folding map by John Bartholomew & Co., monochrome illustrations and diagrams, 46 full-page, one full-page map, and letterpress tables in the text; large folding map with old repaired tear and a little spotted, otherwise a rather attractive set. Second English edition, the issue without half-title in volume one and patterned (not yellow) endpapers. First published in Norway under the title Fram over polhavet, den norske polarfaerd 1893-1896 (Oslo: 1896-1897), the first English edition with a less evocative binding was published in 1897 and this, the second, in the following year. This is the issue bound from the parts, the last instalment of which contained the binding enabling the owner to have it bound. See PMM 384.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1026.21 + shipping
Description: Second UK edition, issued a year after the first, and the first to be bound in the distinctive elaborately decorated cloth. This is the official account of the first Fram expedition of 1893-6, "a remarkable achievement in Polar exploration" (PMM). This copy has Nansen's signature, dated 19 February 1893, on a paper sheet sometime affixed to the front free endpaper. The expedition was undertaken "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 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 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 (for the Norwegian edition). 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, decorative details on spines in gilt and silver, front covers elaborately blocked in gilt, silver, and red. Chromolithographed plate, colour folding map, illustrations in the text, many full-page. Ownership stamp of one "E.M. Copland" on half-title in vol. I and title page in vol. II. Slightly rubbed and mottled, joints with minor cockling, endpapers toned, occasional spotting or offsetting. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom