Paa Ski Over Gronland
by Fridtjof NANSEN
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- Hardcover
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1890. Fridtjof NANSEN - Paa Ski Over Gronland, en Skildring af Den Norske Gronlands-Ekspedition 1888-89, med illustrationer af A. Bloch, Th. Holmboe, Eiv. Nielsen og E. Werenskiold samt 4 farvelagte karter - 1890. Kristiania (Oslo), H. Aschenoug & Co.s Forlag, hovedkommissionaer for Danmark: H. Hagèrup. Original publisher's ("Jul. Thorsen,s bogbinderi") green cloth with coloured illustration at the front board, hot-tooled frames at the boards, gilt titles and friezes at the spine, marbled fore-edges; octavo, cm 23 x 17; pp. XII 704 (2b); very good copy, just some very light foxing here and there, never affecting neither the text, nor the illustrations. Ex libris Charlotte Meyer-Ebhardt at the endpaper, author's portrait ant the frontispiece, hundred of b/w illustrations in the text, some full-page, plus 5 (4 of them coloured) folded-out maps ("Kart over det nordlige Europa og Asien", "Kart over Umivik med Omgivelser ekspeditionens udgangspunkt", "Austmannadalen hvorigjennem ekspeditionen steg ned til Ameralikfjorden", "Det sydlige den norske Gronlands-ekspeditions rute 1888", "Den norske Gronlands-ekspeditions rute"). First Norwegian edition, not always easy to find complete and in very good shape. This the travel account of the first expedition across the Greenland icecap ("The First crossing of Greenland"), by the well-known Norwegian explorer, humanitarian and scientist Nansen
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- Bookseller
- Libreria Belriguardo di Francesco Magnani (IT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- libro25825
- Title
- Paa Ski Over Gronland
- Author
- Fridtjof NANSEN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1890
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