The First Crossing Of Spitsbergen, Being An Account Of An Inland Journey Of Exploration And Survey, With Descriptions Of Several Mountain Ascents, Of Boat Expeditions In Ice Fjord, Of A Voyage To North-East-Land, The Seven Islands, Down Hinloopen Strait, Nearly To Wiches Land, And Into Most Of The Fjords Of Spitsbergen, And Of An Almost Complete Circumnavigation Of The Main Island. -- 1897 FIRST EDITION
Language: English
Published by J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1897
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
AbeBooks seller since March 19, 2008
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 326.60
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1897 FIRST UK EDITION. Original dark green moire cloth on beveled boards with tan buckram spine, gilt lettering spine, gilt decoration lower front cover, TEG, page edges untrimmed. The book has clean covers, clean 4cm long split in cloth top outside rear joint that has been very neatly stabilized with binder's glue (good work = crack no longer open and binding/spine not loose or deformed), no other restorations inside or outside book, large gift inscription on blank FFEP otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, some foxing mainly in the margins of a few pages, some tanning to some pages but not bad, solid binding (nothing loose), folding maps in nice shape, complete with all pages, plates, maps. The book measures 247mm tall x 177mm, and has 371 pages, 8 colored plates, 100 full-page & other illustrations (mostly b/w photos but several sketch-enhanced photos and sketches), 2 folding maps, index.
Seller Inventory # 004541
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The First Crossing Of Spitsbergen, Being An Account Of An Inland Journey Of Exploration And Survey, With Descriptions Of Several Mountain Ascents, Of Boat Expeditions In Ice Fjord, Of A Voyage To North-East-Land, The Seven Islands, Down Hinloopen Strait, Nearly To Wiches Land, And Into Most Of The Fjords Of Spitsbergen, And Of An Almost Complete Circumnavigation Of The Main Island. -- 1897 FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Conway, Martin and J. W. Gregory and A. Trevor-Batye and E. J. Garwood
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Co., London
- Publication year
- 1897
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Mountaineering, Polar
JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
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