£ 395
Conway, Sir. William Martin.
THE FIRST CROSSING OF SPITSBERGEN.
J.M. Dent & Co.
1897
First edition.
371pp with tissue guarded colour printed frontispiece, 8 colour printed plates and 2 folding maps and about one hundred full-page and text illustrations from photographs and sketches. In original quarter tan cloth with gilt spine lettering with dark green cloth sides and publisher’s gilt device on upper board. Top edges gilt. Hinges tight and text block tight and square. No inscriptions. Very slight wear to cloth extremities and light fading to spine. Pages clean and bright. Very light wrinkling in places. No foxing or spotting. An account of explorations to Spitsbergen in 1896 and 1897 during which thirteen first ascents were completed and a wide area of 600square miles were surveyed for the first time (Neate C105).
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. ... with contributions by J.W. Gregory, D. SC., A. Trevor-Battye, and E.J. Garwood; together with eight coloured plates reproduced in facsimile from sketches by H.E. Conway.
     
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