Hovgaard Andreas Peter 1853 1910 (2 results)

Hardcover. boards Minor rubbing. Some light page-margin smudges. Good. 22x15cm, 98 pp., Recent binder's blind boards. Name inked on title-page. Some title-page soil. Text entirely in Danish. Report of the ship Dijmphna's Arctic expedition [ to the Kara sea, Tschernaja and Novaya Zemlja] Minor rubbing. Some light page-margin smudges. Good.…

First edition. 23 cm; xlii, 356 pages, [24] tinted lithograph plates, numerous woodcut text illustrations, 3 color maps (2 folded). Text in Danish. Bound in original cloth stamped in gilt, silver, and black, with gold-and-silver lozenge of the global map on upper board; spine stamped in gilt with images of nautical and navigational instruments; lower board stamped in blind. Edges and joints worn thin, and spine faded in sunlight, but a very good copy. Original Danish edition of this account of the expedition of the "Vega" to trace a Northeast Passage through the Arctic (1878-1880) led by the Finnish-born Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901). The "Vega" was the first ship to make the passage along the northern coasts of Europe and Asia. Starting from Karlskrona on 22 June 1878, the Vega doubled Cape Chelyuskin in the following August, and after being frozen in at the end of September near the Bering Strait, completed the voyage successfully in the following summer. Upon returning to Stockholm, Nordenskiöld was made a baron and a Commander in the Order of the North Star. Many geographical features in Greenland and off the coast of Siberia are named for him.…