LIFE AND EXPLORATIONS OF FRIDTJOF NANSEN

New Edition, Revised and Considerably Enlarged. 8vo. dark red cloth hardback, bevelled boards, with gilt title and vignette portrait of Nansen to front board and gilt title and silver vignette of ship to spine. Original green leaf-patterned endpapers. 449pp. plus 2pp. Publisher's Advertisements at end. List of Illustrations calls for 14 b/w plates (including frontispiece) and a Map. These are all present plus an additional 38 b/w plates and vignettes within the text. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Occasional light foxing and handling marks, heavier to prelims. All edges rather worn with slight fraying to top and base of spine and corners. Overall a Good Copy.