Nordenskjöld, Nils Otto Gustav and Johann Gunnar Andersson

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 8vo (227 x 150mm.), half-title, 5 plates (4 coloured), 4 maps (3 folding), numerous illustrations, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, minor spotting, mostly to edges, 2 folding maps backed on linen with a few stains, joints starting, minor wear to extremities, spine discoloured

Sotheby's, 12 December 1975, lot 231; Ownership signature on front free endpaper

Rosove 240.A1; Spence 860; Taurus Collection 33

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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VERY SCARCE. "This is a attenuated version of Nordenskjöld's narrative - the principal account of the Swedish South Polar Expedition of 1901-04 - lacking much of the illustration and scientific commentary of the original Swedish and German editions. The volume's green cloth binding is also prone to fading.. Nordenskjöld's was the first journey to winter over in the Antarctic peninsula" (Taurus).