Fridtjof Nansen’s "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 with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup captain of the Fram. About one hundred and twenty full page and numerous text illustrations, sixteen coloured plates in facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches, etched portrait photogravures and maps. ...
Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1854-1930
Category
Books
Date
1897
Materials
Place of origin
Westminster
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3147118
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. (xiii, [3], 510; xiii, [3], 671p.) plates: ill., maps (some col., fold.), plans, ports., facsim. ; 25cm. Provenance: v.1 inscribed "Mrs. Vaughan Llandaff 1897" [i.e. Catherine Maria Vaughan, née Stanley (1821-1899)]; also on pastedown "Stamford, Weybridge" [i.e. William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850-1910)]. Binding: publisher's green cloth, gold lettered and illustrated.
Makers and roles
Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1854-1930 Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) Otto Neumann Sverdrup (b.1855)