Neues Land Dier Jahre in Arktischen Gebieten Erster Band by Sverdrup,Kapitan O - 1903

E-017: F A Brockhaus. Very Good. 1903. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, Germany. 1903. Two volumes. Volume I: xi, 576 pgs; Volume II: x, 542 pgs. Features 225 illustrations including 69 plates and portrait frontispieces. Also contains nine partially-colored maps on seven folding panels. Text in German. Bound in brown pictorial cloth with gilt. Bound in brown pictorial cloth with gilt. Boards have heavy shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn to the extremities). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Front hinge repaired. Maps present but several are misfolded and detached. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Relates the author's many journeys to the Arctic regions, supplemented with profuse illustrations of Arctic scenery and camp life near the North Pole. Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup (31 October 1854, in Bindal, Helgeland – 26 November 1930) was a Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer. E-17; 8vo 8"… Read More