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 Nansen, Dr. Fridtjof History,Travel

2 vol. Large 8vo. [7], viii-x, [4], 1-587, [1]; [5], viii-x, [2], 1-729, [1], [1]-4 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Grey publisher's cloth with a gilt, red, and silver decoration with gilt lettering on the front boards, gilt lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Volume one illustrated with two maps in its front pocket, two maps in its rear pocket, a frontispiece, and with several full-page and in-text black and white illustrations, also with eight colored plates. Volume two illustrated with a frontispiece, eight colored plates, and numerous black and white full-page and in-text images (some are photogravures). The full-page and in-text images total to about 120. With an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. Arctic Bibliography 11983. The Nobel Peace Prize winner's narrative of his three-year long expedition to the Arctic, with beautiful color plates. Each volume rebacked with the original spine laid down, a few tiny chips to the endpapers in volume one. A bookplate on volume two's front pastedown.