Lot 499
Polar Exploration - Nansen, Fridtjof, and others, 21 books
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
Nansen, Fridtjof Farthest North. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. 2 volumes, 8vo, portrait, frontispiece, 4 folding maps (one torn), original green cloth gilt; [Idem] Eskimo Life. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; [Idem] Farthest North. London: Archibald Constable and Co. Ltd., 1904. 8vo, original red cloth gilt; Brögger, W.C. and Rolfsen, Nordahl Fridtjof Nansen. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. 8vo, original green cloth; [Brown, R.N.R, and others] The Voyage of the "Scotia". Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1906. 8vo, folding map, later? cloth; Peary, R.E. Nearest the Pole. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907. 8vo, original black cloth gilt, 2 folding maps; Mikkelsen, Ejnar Conquering the Arctic Ice. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 8vo, original green cloth with Polar bear motif; [Idem] Lost in the Arctic... London: William Heinemann, 1913. 8vo, folding map, original green cloth, silver rubbed from covers; and 12 others, sold not subject to return (21)