"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.

First English editions of this "remarkable achievement in Polar exploration" (PMM). Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's pictorial green cloth over boards, front panels blocked in gilt with a design of the Fram to volume one and with design of dogs, sledge and driver to volume two, gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded etched portrait frontispiece in volume one and tissue-guarded photogravure frontispiece in volume two. Profusely illustrated with 111 half-tone, lithographic and photogravure plates after J. Nordhagen, H. Egidius, Otto Sinding, et al., 16 color-printed plates, 4 folding color-printed lithographic maps by John Bartholomew & Co, and numerous monochrome illustrations, charts, and diagrams. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown of volume one.