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Farthest North
de Nansen, Fridtjof
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Near Fine
- Librería
-
Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London: George Newnes, Ltd.. Near Fine. 1898. 2nd UK Edition. Cloth. The second English edition following the Archibald Constable publication from a year earlier. Elaborate silver and gilt pictorial cloth binding. Little foxing, mainly to endpapers, rear endpapers of Volume II cracked, hinge a trifle weak, else Fine in alike custom cloth-slipcase; The Nobel Laureate's account of his three-year long expedition. In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and so drift North. Given up for dead, he traveled 146 miles farther north than anyone else in the past four hundred years; Vol. 1 & 2; 8vo; xvi, 480; viii, 456 pages; Not listed in Arctic Bibliography .
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- Librería
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 33938
- Título
- Farthest North
- Autor
- Nansen, Fridtjof
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Edición
- 2nd UK Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- George Newnes, Ltd.
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1898
- Palabras clave
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Legendary Books; Travel / Polar Travel & Exploration; By Year Of Issue / 1890s;
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
