[Signed] [First Edition] In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times Nansen, Fridtjof; Chater, Arthur G. [Trans] [Used - Very good]

[Signed] [First Edition] In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times Nansen, Fridtjof; Chater, Arthur G. [Trans] [Used - Very good]
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1st UK Edition.
xi,384; (vi)416pp.
Tall octavo.
Two volumes, Bound in original blue cloth with gold gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine.
Head and base of spine and cover corners with very minor rubbing and minor bumping.
Endpapers foxed and toned as usual.
Top of text block darkened and dust soiled.
Colour tipped-in frontispieces clean and bright; overlaying tissue guards intact.
Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings, charts and maps.
Volume II has a two-page, four-sided August 1911 Heinemann catalogue listing the book laid in with this title listed.
A very nice, attractive copy.
Arctic Bibl.
11993.
A history of arctic voyages from original sources, often translated specifically for Nansen.
Covers the discovery of Iceland and Greenland in the Middle Ages, the decline of the Norse settlements in Greenland, early whaling and sealing, etc.
Wonderfully inscribed by Nansen, in the year of publication, to Lord Edward Grey, Liberal parliamentarian, Foreign Secretary, and leader of the House of Lords.
Inscribed association copies are very uncommon.

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