"The North West Passage" Being The Record Of A Voyage Of Exploration Of The Ship "Gjoa" 1903-1907 Amundsen, Roald History,Travel

2 vol. Large 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [1], 1-335, [3]; pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on each front board, gilt lettering on the spines; top edge gilt. Later endpapers and pastedowns. Volume one illustrated with a frontispiece, numerous full-page and in-text black and white images, a fold-out map, and a plate in color; volume two illustrated with a frontispiece, a fold-out chart in the rear of the volume, and with several in-text and full-page black and white illustrations. A total of roughly 139 illustrations. With a supplement by First Lieutenant Hansen Vice-Commander of the Expedition. Arctic Bibliography 402. Howgego A12. A stirring account of the first crew to successfully traverse Northwest passage. Amundsen was one of the heroes of Arctic exploration, and was the first person to reach the South Pole. A few library stamps from the long-extinct Library Association of Windsor, Vermont, both volumes rebacked with the original spines laid down.