"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.

Finely bound edition and the first to be issued in the iconic publisher's elaborately decorated binding of this "remarkable achievement in Polar exploration" (PMM). Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's pictorial green cloth over beveled boards, elaborately blocked in gilt, red, and silver, spines blocked in gilt and silver with titles and Arctic vignettes, all edges gilt. Volume I with portrait frontispiece; Volume II with monochrome frontispiece, profusely illustrated with 64 monochrome plates, one color-printed plate, a color-printed folding map by John Bartholomew & Co., numerous monochrome illustrations and diagrams, 46 full-page plates, one additional full-page map, and letterpress tables throughout the text. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities. A very sharp example of this cornerstone of Arctic exploration literature.