Author: NORDENSKIÖLD, ADOLF ERIK :
Title: Vegas färd genom Asien och Europa. Jemte en historisk återblick på föregående resor längs verldens nordkust. Two volumes (Twelve parts). Stockholm, Beijers Förlag, 1880-83.
Description: . Comprising twelve parts, as issued, in nine volumes. Pp. (xvi), 510; (x), 486. With five portraits and ten maps, mostly folding and two coloured. Original printed wrappers, several with chipped spine ends, last volume with small tears at lower back. Old ownership signature on the first volume. First edition of Nordenskiöld's account of the Vega expedition in 1878-80. It was the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage and the first voyage to circumnavigation of Eurasia. A well-preserved set, scarce in it's original state. Hulth 49. Liljequist, High Latitudes, pp. 115-140.

Keywords: Travel general, asia, asie, asie, asiatic, siberia, japan, japon, japanese, travel, exploration, arctic, scientific,


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