maritime history - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

Second edition. - Classic account of the first Fram expedition 1893-96, a remarkable
achievement in polar exploration, every detail of which was worked out by Nansen
himself and went absolutely according plan. ‘His account of the journey, Farthest
North, was a worldwide bestseller and prepared him for an effective life of diplomacy.
Although he planned other expeditions, they were not to be’ (Stam, Books on ice,
p.66). - One of the most spectacular pictorial cloth travel binding of the period.
Arctic Bibl. 11983; P.M.M. 384.
538 NANSEN, Fridtjof. In Nacht und Eis. Die Norwegische Polarexpedition 1893-
1896. Mit einem Beitrag von Kapitän Sverdrup. Lpzg., L.A.Brockhaus, 1897. 2 volumes.
Half calf. With 4 maps, 8 coloured plates and 207 illustrations. X,527;VIII,507
pp. € 70,00
539 NANSEN, Fridtjof. In Nacht und Eis. Die Norwegische Polarexpedition 1893-
1896. Mit einem Beitrag von Kapitän Sverdrup. 4. Aufl. Lpzg., 1898-1920. 3 volumes.
Original decorated boards (hinges sl. dam.). With 4 folding maps, 12 coloured
plates and 293 illustrations after sketches and photographs. X,527; VIII,539; VIII,519
pp. € 150,00
Results of the Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen
(1861-1930) in the Fram, first ship built to withstand the pressure of pack ice, from
Vardö, 1893, through the Barents, Kara, and Laptev Seas to a point just west of the
New Siberian Islands, thence drifting ice-bound, westward across the north polar sea
to north of Spitsbergen, 1896. Towards the end of the expedition Nansen and companion
left ship to make a sledge trip across the ice toward the North Pole, and wintered
on Franz Josef Land, 1895-96 (Arctic Bibl. 12004). With the often missing third
volume (in first edition): B. Nordahl. Wir Fram Leute; H. Johanssen. Nansen und ich
auf 86’14’.
Arctic Bibl. 11992 (2 volumes only).
540 NANSEN, Fridtjof. In Nacht und Eis. Die Norwegische Polarexpedition 1893-
1896. Neue Ausgabe. 2. Auflage. Wiesbaden, 1959. Cloth, with dustwrapper. With
folding coloured map and 33 illustrations. 342 pp. € 45,00
541 NANSEN, Fridtjof. Nebelheim. Entdeckung und Erforschung der nördlichen
Länder und Meere. Lpzg., F.A. Brockhaus, 1911.
2 volumes. Original pictorial cloth. With 185 maps and illustrations. XII,479;
VIII,460 pp. € 235,00
First and only German edition. - The best general history of Arctic exploration up to
the Renaissance, containing i.a. the accounts of the discovery of Iceland, Greenland
and America.
Arctic Bibl. 11993 (English ed.).