2 volumes, 8vo. With frontispiece, 4 folding maps on 2 sheets in rear cover pocket Vol II, numerous other plates & maps, illustrations in text. Original publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver (spine ends slightly rubbed, fore-edges slightly spotted, otherwise fine). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the second Fram expedition. Sverdrup served under Nansen both in Greenland and on the "Farthest North" expedition. After the success of the latter, Nansen allowed Sverdrup to captain the Fram on a four-year journey through the Western Arctic. Norway's attempts to claim these lands accelerated Canadian efforts to explore and inhabit the islands. Arctic Bibliography 17322.