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Book Description

First Norwegian edition. 8vo. pp. vi, [i, contents], 319; port. frontis., illusts., one coloured plate, one folding map, one double-page plate of headlands, one double-page plate of Melville Bay; previous owner’s inscription to title, contents a little shaken, very good in the original pictorial cloth, gilt.
Dealer Notes
Astrup was a member of Peary’s North Greenland Expedition of 1891-2, and the Second Peary expedition of 1893-5. His narrative was translated into English as With Peary Near the Pole, 1898.
Author Astrup, Eivind.
Date 1895
Binding Original decorated cloth
Publisher Kristiania: H. Aschehoug
Condition See description
Pages pp. vi, [i, contents], 319

Price: £495.00

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