`Farthest North` The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-1896 - By Dr. Fridtjof Nansen

First English two-volume edition published 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company. Original blue-green cloth with gilt titles and vignettes depicting the two major events of the expedition, the Fram frozen into the ice, and on volume two, travel via dog sleigh. Both volumes suffer from splits and tears at the head and foot of the spines, and volume two has a circular cup stain on the front. Rough cut page edges, with minor foxing in places. Both volumes contain the recent name in ink of a previous owner on first endpapers. Volume one contains eight colour plates from Dr. Nansen's sketches, 48 full-page plates, and 47 illustrations within the text as called for, as well as two folding maps bound in at the rear. Of these, the General Map of the Polar Regions has a lengthy tear not affecting the content. All illustrations too are present in volume two, though the illustration within the text in page 513 is not per that listed. Both fold-out maps are present, with a short tear not affecting the content to the map showing the route of the  Fram.