8vo. In two volumes. xii, 505, [1]; x, [2], 523pp, [3]. Numerous photographic plates and illustrations in the text, nine maps. Original publisher's pictorial navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Decorated endpapers, early inked ownership inscriptions to both FFEPs and titles.

The first edition of Norwegian sailor and explorer Otto Sverdrup's (1854-1930) account of the second Fram Expedition (1898-1902) to survey northern Greenland and explore and survey the unknown northeastern coast.