Nansen's Farthest North (Volumes 1 and 2)
by Nansen, Fridtjof
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1898. '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. About one hundred and twenty full page and numerous text illustrations and coloured plate in facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches, portrait and maps." Pages clean and bright, heavy spotting and foxing on the endpapers and pastedowns, frontispiece plate loose in vol. 1, binding firm, light shelf wear to edge of boards but otherwise neat.. Hard. Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79590
- Title
- Nansen's Farthest North (Volumes 1 and 2)
- Author
- Nansen, Fridtjof
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- George Newnes, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- 8vo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Bookcase
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Carlisle, Cumbria
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