Farthest North. Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey (2 vols)

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2 Volumes complete in illustrated purple cloth, bevelled, corners and edges worn. Spines, gilt tooling, titles & images, edges bumped. Internally, Vol 1, 1898, half title, portrait frontis, [9], (x-xv), [1], [1], 2-480 pp, 61 pls (1 coloured), 51 illustrations within text, 1 large map (coloured, folding with repaired tear). Vol 2, 1898, frontis, [6], (vii-viii), [1], 2-456 pp, 52 pls (B&W mainly photographic), 39 illustrations in text. Ink ownership name to feps (K Mason), text block edged reddened, half title in V1 with gutter mark & small edge hole. This the 2nd English edition, the first was published the year earlier, 1897 and the 1st Norwegian in 1896. (226*153. 225*152 mm). (Arctic Bibliography 11983/11979; NMMI 991 -1st Enged; PMM 384 -1st Enged). The record of one of the greatest feats of endurance in Arctic history.