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New Land; Four Years In The Arctic Regions.
por Sverdrup, Ottosverdrup, Otto
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Livreiro
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London:: Longmans, Green & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1904. First Edition. Cloth. 8VO; 2 volumes, 8vo. With frontispiece, 4 folding maps on 2 sheets in rear cover pocket Vol II, numerous other plates & maps, illustrations in text. Original publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver (corners bumped, covers very slightly bowed, spines darkened). Provenance: Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown (1879-1957) , polar explorer (signature in Vol. I, stamps) ; collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown joined the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition as botanist where he catalogued the wildlife of the South Orkney Islands. Rudmose Rocks, charted by the expedition in 1903, were named after Rudmose-Brown by expedition leader William Speirs Bruce. He later consulted the Scottish Spitsbergen Syndicate and was vice president of the International Polar Congress. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the second Fram expedition. Sverdrup served under Nansen both in Greenland and on the "Farthest North" expedition. After the success of the latter, Nansen allowed Sverdrup to captain the Fram on a four-year journey through the Western Arctic. Norway's attempts to claim these lands accelerated Canadian efforts to explore and inhabit the islands. Arctic Bibliography 17322. Silver gilt on spine and covers is quite bright. .
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- Livreiro
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 40446
- Título
- New Land; Four Years In The Arctic Regions.
- Autor
- Sverdrup, Ottosverdrup, Otto
- Formato/Encadernação
- Cloth
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edição
- First Edition
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Longmans, Green & Co.
- Local de publicação
- London:
- Data de publicação
- 1904
- Observação
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