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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 293 pages plus folded maps (complete). A handsome copy. Full leather. Stamped with the badge of 'Upland College Stoke Newington Green'. The leathered boards are smart. They do have some wear to the shelving edges, corners and seams. The title panel on the spine has been worn so that the titling is indistinct. The gilt decoration has just genial wear. They are steady, sound, healthy. Marbled paper trims. Marbled end papers. The front pastedown has a school presentation label. The contents are gratifying. They do have some shallow puddles of foxing here and there, but by far, they are clean, clear, confident, evocative, thrilling, eager. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The fascinating first English language edition of a Danish naval officer's account of the first crossing of the Northeast Passage. Complete with colour folding maps and numerous further illustrations. The first English language edition of Danish Navy Commander Andreas Hovgaard's account of Adolf Erik Nordenskiold's Vega Expedition, where Hovgaard was in charge of both meteorological and geomagnetic observations. Translated from the original Danish by H. L. Braekstad.Illustrated with three colour maps, two of which are folding, and a further forty seven plates and vignette illustrations consisting of both views of the expedition's surroundings, and portraits of those on board. Collated, complete.The finest achievement amongst Nordenskiold's many Arctic explorations was the Vega expedition, where the SS Vega became the first vessel to circumnavigate the Eurasian continent, and the first ship to complete a voyage through the Northern Passage.With the bookplate of the James Hadden Circulating Library to the front pastedown, and no further library markings within, and athirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear.In this richly illustrated work, Commander Hovgaard provides a thrilling first hand account of a pioneering voyage. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with gilt title. Back strip faded, with bumping to spine head and tail, and board extremities. Front and rear hinges starting, with boards holding firm. Circulating library bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound, though strained towards centre of text block. Pages bright, with scattered areas of spotting and handling marks, including to maps and plates. Good. book.

First English edition; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); 47 engraved illustrations, 3 colour maps, 2 of which folding including frontispiece, prize inscription to first blank, bookplate to front pastedown, some very light spotting to title; full tree calf prize binding, gilt school crest to upper boards, spine in six gilt compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt, touch of rubbing to extremities, a fine copy; xlviii, 293 pp. A fine prize binding copy of the narrative of the Swedish Vega expedition, the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage, the sea route between Europe and Asia through the Arctic Ocean, and the first voyage to circumnavigate Eurasia. Although weighed down by a troubled start to the enterprise, the expedition has come to be considered to one of the most important successes for Swedish science in the nineteenth century.