BULL, Jacob Breda. Fridtjof Nansen. A Book for the Young. By Jacob B. Bull. Translated from the Norwegian by the Rev. Mordaunt R. Barnard, Vicar of Margaretting, one of the translators of "Farthest North". London: Isbister and Company. 1898.
8vo. Original grey pictorial cloth, embossed in gilt, printed in white and brown, bevelled edges, patterned endpapers; pp. [ii], 132, [6, publisher's advertisements], Arctic map as frontispiece, illustrations in the text (after wood-engravings and photographs, some full-page), initially and towards the end a little spotted, ownership inscription to verso of front fly-leaf, otherwise a rather good copy of a rare item.
Very rare first English edition of this early book for young readers on the childhood, upbringing and later achievements of Nansen, beautifully produced and designed. - The Norwegian edition is even rarer (given the amount of juvenile readers the small country had and how they read the books to bits).
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