Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe by Nordenskiold, A. E - 1882

new york: MacMillan, 1882. Hardcover. Good. Large pieces of the top and the bottom of the spine are missing and most of the paper spine label is gone, front and rear hinges split. several of the maps are partially separated at the folds. Book has an old lib label inside front cover stamped discarded, no other stamps noted.

Macmillan and Co, 1883. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1883. No Edition Remarks. 413 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to hinges and gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is dulled.

New York, NY: Macmillan Company. FR/No Dustjacket. 1882. ........ Cloth. Sm 4to., 740 pp, Hinges broken an separated, cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, frayed maps, page toning .

MacMillan, New York, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. NORDENSKIOLD, A.E. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe, New York: Macmillan, 1882.Quarto, first U.S. edition, pp. xxvi, 756, half black cloth over marbled boards, steel engravings, 10 folding linen maps. Chronicles the first-ever complete crossing of the Northeast Passage in 1879, translated from the Swedish by Alexander Leslie. This copy is sound and complete but only a map collector could love it, because the maps are fine while the rest of the book has numerous flaws, including cracked joints, library markings, pink stains, and tape repairs to text leaves. The maps are reproductions of much older work as well as original cartography, such as N. Selander's "The North Coast of the Old World" and G. Bove's "Sketch Map of Taimur Sound." This is the first USA edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact.… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1882. hardcover. good. Translated by Alexander Leslie. 10 lithographed folding maps, some in color. 4 steel engraved portraits, 298 woodcuts. xxvi, 756pp. 8vo, original green cloth, spine ends and edges of corners lightly worn, edges of covers rubbed, corners bumped. New York: Macmillan, 1882. First American Edition<br/><br/> Lacks frontispiece portrait of the author. A large folding map has a large tear and is chipped on the margin with no loss of text. Another folding map has a chipped margin. Two other folding maps each have a small tear with no loss of text.<br/><br/>

London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1886. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. Wilhelm Meyer's Xylographic Institute (engravings). Small 8vo. Pp. 413. [4], 413, followed by 322 pp. of publisher's titles. Frontis. photo port. of Nordenskiold, with tissue guard. With 186 intertextual and full-plate wood cuts, after photos. Bound in dark green cloth with a globe stamped in black on front board, gilt lettering, rules and a polar bear vignette stamped on spine. Of three color lithographed maps called for, one is lacking. Light wear to corners, minor lean to book yet tight binding, bookplate and owner name, moderate foxing, notably to preliminaries. Withal, a sturdy copy with attractive shelf appeal. The preferred edition, as it contains the the whole narrative of the North-East Passage, as well as Nordenskiold's year among the Chukches. In addition, the translation is revised and measurements are reduced to English terms.From the polar collection of John M. Levinson, physician and Explorers Club president… Read More

New York: Macmillan and Co, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 756p octavo, illustrated plus 10 foldout mnaps. Rear inner hinge starting. A good sound copy in green cloth. Bookplates

Macmillan and Company, 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Macmillian, 1882. 756 pp. Green cloth. Hardcover. Harvard University Peabody Museum book plate inside cover. Scuff on cover. 10 fold outs, 2 in color. Front hinge weakened. Ships daily.

London 1881, Macmillan. Green cloth, very good, 2 vols.,524+ 482pp.,10 folding maps, 4 engraved plates, 298 wood engraved text plates, very clean, solid copy, complete in original binding, 15 x 23.5 cm., gold stamped. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION The original Swedish edition was published in 1880-81. This the first English language translation. It documents a voyage circumnavigated to Europe & Asia, travelling through the polar regions of Siberia & N. Europe. * The voyage visited many port in Asia. With details of every stop, Siberian islands, frozen in the passage through the Behring Straits, arrival at Nunamo, down to Japan. Arrival at Yokohama, meetings with Japanese marine ministers, Kawamura, Prince Kito-Shira-Kava. * JAPAN: Audience of the Mikado. Of Japanese manners & customs, Imperial gardens, excursion to Asamayama, Nakasendo, Takasaki, baths at Ikaho, massage, hot springs. Voyage to Kobe, purchase of Japanese books, rail to Kyoto, of temples, Japanese swords. On to Nagasaki & Mogi.… Read More