May 24, 2007 - Sale 2116

Sale 2116 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
SVERDRUP, OTTO. New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions. Plates and maps (including 2 multi-image folding maps in the rear pocket). 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth pictorially-stamped in silver, minor wear; very minor foxing along the top and fore edges. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904

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first edition in english. Sverdrup spent four winters in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago aboard his ship Fram and is credited with discovering several islands west of Ellesmere during the 1898-1902 Norwegian exploring expedition. Arctic Bibliography 17322.

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