First English edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xv, 510 & xv, 671; port. frontis. to vol. I, photogravure frontis. to vol. II, 16 coloured plates, numerous plates and illusts. to text including many from photographs, 4 folding coloured maps; previous owner’s inscription to flyleaves with occasional marginal pencil markings and notes to rear endpapers, browning to endpapers, rear hinge of vol. II slightly split, else very good original green cloth, gilt, vignettes in gilt to upper covers, now contained in a purpose-made solander slipcase with, tipped-in to flyleaf of vol. I, a postcard signed by Nansen to a Colonel Bicknell, Paris.