May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
NANSEN, FRIDTJOF. Fridtjof Nansen's "Farthest North" Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96. 4 folding maps, plates. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, a bit worn, corners bumped, ink stain on the backstrip to one volume; tear to one map; scattered minor foxing and toning. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897

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first edition in english. Nansen's 1893-96 Norwegian expedition aboard the specially-built Fram used the drift observed by the movement of the remains of the Jeanette to travel deep into the Arctic. This is the first translation of the First Edition published in Kristiana the same year. Books on Ice 5.2.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.