Fridtjof Nansen : The First Crossing of Greenland : Fine Binding : 1910

Fridtjof Nansen : The First Crossing of Greenland : Fine Binding : 1910The First Crossing of Greenland By Fridtjof Nansen Translated from the Norwegian by Hubert Majendie Gepp London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. Colonial Edition, New Impression. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Fine binding, hardcover, octavo (18. 5 x 12 x 3 cm), pp. xii, 452. English text. Finely bound in full calf gilt, cross hatching to panels, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, with numerous

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the day before war was declared

Patriot and traitor

[ii] and 58 pages

Endpapers good and inner joints secure with no cracking

detailing their geography

The boards are very good as is the spine

no tearing & no other marking or staining - Binding is tight and square and all contents are present - A good copy in a poor jacket

the company was a pioneer in color printing technologies in children's books

Bartlett's plates were originally published in monthly instalments between 1837 and 1839

Endpapers clean and pages in lovely condition throughout and free from foxing or stains

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