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 Catapin of the Fram [2 volume set]
by Nansen, Fridtjof
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volume set. 23 x 16 cm. Octavo. xv 480pp, 456pp. Bound into maroon pebbled boards, gilt spine lettering. Extensively illustrated with full page and in-text illustrations. Large fold-out map in rear of volume 1 complete but with one instance of tape repair and some foxing. Color plate "Evening among the Drift-Ice, 22nd September 1893" present opposite page 56 in volume 1 and in nice condition. The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-1896.
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- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- 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 Catapin of the Fram [2 volume set]
- Author
- Nansen, Fridtjof
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- George Newnes, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...