The Norwegian North Polar Expedition, 1893-1896

By Fridtjof Nansen

Greenwood Press, New York: 1969. Publisher’s brown cloth with bright gilt titles on spine in Near Fine condition. With numerous full page plates, charts and maps and fold-outs describing scientific finds of Fridtjof Nansen’s Norwegian North Polar (Farthest North) Expedition. These six volumes describe his trek to the upper reaches into the sub-arctic of Norway but more so provide the body of scientific work preformed during the lengthily expedition. The findings were originally published in 1901 by Longmans, Green and Co. and completes sets are Rare. This 1969 reprint is also difficult to find in complete sets and is considered Scarce — especially in this Near Fine Condition.

Volume I: In Five Parts totally 383pp. with 46 full page plates included in:

Part 1. 16pp., 3 full page plates, The Fram, By Colin Archer.

Part 2. 147pp., 3 full page plates, The Jurassic Fauna of Cape Flora, Franz Josef Land,

by J.F. Pompedkj. With Geological Sketch of Cape Flora and its Neighborhood, by Fridtjof Nansen.

Part 3. 26pp., 2 full page plates, Fossil Plants from Franz Josef Land, by A.G. Nathorst.

Part 4. 53pp., 2 full page plates, An Account of Birds, by Robert Collett and Fridtjof Nansen.

Part 5. 137pp., 36 full page plates, Crustacea, by G.O. Sars.

Index of Species Described in Volume 1, 4pp.

Volume II: In Three Parts totaling 422pp. with numerous charts, plates and two fold out maps at rear.

Part 6. 136pp., 2 charts, Astronomical Observations, by H. Geelmuyden.

Part 7. 196pp., 17 full page plates. Terrestrial Magnetism, by Aksel S. Steen.

Part 8. 90pp., Results of the Pendulum Observations and some Remarks on the Constitution of the Earth’s Crust, by O.E. Schiotz.

Volume III: In Two Parts totally 516 pages, 34 plates including fold-outs.

Part 9. 427pp., 33 full page plates including fold-outs. The Oceanography of the North Polar Basin,

by Fridtjof Nansen

Part 10. 89pp., 1 chart, On Hydrometers and the Surface Tension of Liquids, by Fridtjof Nansen

Volume IV: In Three Parts totally 324 pages and 33 plates including numerous fold-outs.

Part 11. 74pp., 3 plates. Diatomaceae from Ice-Floes and Plankton of the Arctic Ocean, by H.H. Gran.

Part 12. 18pp., 1 plate, The Lower Silurian at Khabarova, by Johan Klaer.

Part 13. 232pp., 29 plates including fold-outs, The Bathymetrical Features of the North Polar Seas, with Discussion of the Continental Shelves and Previous Oscillations of the Shore-Line, by Fridtjof Nansen

Volume V: In Three Parts totally 236 pages and 28 plates.

Part 14. 52pp., 3 plates. On the Bottom Deposits of the North Polar Sea, by O.B. Boggild

Appendix I. 5pp., Analyses of the Bottom Deposits, by O.N. Heidenreich and Charles J.J. Fox.

Appendix II: 5pp., Thalamophora of the Bottom Deposits and the Mud from the Ice Surface, by Hans Klaer.

Part 15. 152pp., 17 plates. On Dead-Water: Being a description of the so-called phenomenon often hindering the headway and navigation of ships in Norwegian Fjords and elsewhere, and an experimental investigation of its causes etc. Preface by Professor Vilhelm Bjerknes, by V. Walfrid Ekman.

Part 16. 22pp., 8 plates. Protozoa on the Ice-Floes of the North Polar Sea, by Fridtjof Nansen.

Volume VI: In one Part

Part 17. 659pp,, Erratta, Index, 20 plates. Meteorology, by H. Hohn