Lot 31
Polar Exploration, including Nansen, Fridtjof
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
In northern mists. William Heinemann, 1911. 2 volumes, large 8vo, original blue-green cloth gilt with sunrise motif to upper covers; Markham, Albert Hastings, Captain The great frozen sea. Daldry, Ibister..., 1878. 8vo, original cloth gilt; Clutterbuck, Walter J. The skipper in Arctic seas Longmans, Green..., 1890. 8vo, original pictorial cloth; Lamont, James Yachting in the Arctic seas... Chatto and Windus, 1876. 8vo, blue cloth gilt, rebacked; and another by Nansen, all with Cruising Association bookplates, blind-stamps and Cruising Association gilt stamps to upper covers and spines, some darkening/spotting and bumping and soiling/fading to covers, sold not subject to return (6)