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 edition, first printing. Two volumes. Publisher's original blue-green ribbed cloth, the spines lettered in gilt and with titles and illustration in gilt to the upper boards. Page edges untrimmed. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece portrait, 16 chromolithographs, 112 plates, 4 folding coloured maps and numerous in-text illustrations (entirely complete). An excellent near fine set, the bindings square and firm, with bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The cloth and gilt remain bright and fresh. The contents, with a pencilled name to the front endpaper and corner of the pastedown in both volumes, are lightly spotted and toned to the pastedowns, endpapers and closed text block. The folding maps, with some toning to the verso of one map in volume II and a 3.5cm tear to the margin of another in volume I, are otherwise bright and clean throughout.

An account of the Norwegian explorer's 1893-96 Fram expedition to the North Pole. A classic work of polar exploration, superbly illustrated.