NANSEN, Fridtjof, 1861-1930. Farthest North : being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen ; with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup ... ; about 120 full-page and numerous text illustrations, 16 colored plates in facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches, etched portrait, photogravures, and 4 maps.

First US Edition. [New edition, with index].

New York : Harper & Brothers, 1897.

2 volumes. With frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some color), portraits, maps; with Four folded color maps in front and rare pockets of volume 1.

Bound in dark gray boards with red, green, and silver decorative stamping front cover; gilt lettering across spine.


H: 9 3/4 W: 6 3/4 in. Very Good. T.p. of Vol. 1 partially detached.
With bookplate, “John A. Davidson,” at rear pastedown of both volumes, with “Jennie S. Withrow Xmas 1897” in ink on front pastedown of both volumes.