2 volumes, 8vo. With 5 folding route maps, 12 plates & numerous illustrations in text. Original publisher's pictorial blue-green cloth blocked in gilt and silver (spines and lower covers slightly darkened, otherwise fine). Provenance: Otto Orren Fisher (bookplate).FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Nansen's expedition across the Greenland icecap in 1888-89. First published in Norway the same year. Arctic Bibliography 11985.