Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"

Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"

Full title: Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage" : being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Gjoa" 1903-1907 / by Roald Amundsen, with a supplement by First Lieutenant Hansen, vice-commander of the expedition : with about one hundred and thirty-nine illustrations and three maps.

Half-title: The "Gjoa" expedition, 1903-1907.

Roald Amundsen, 1872-1928

London : Archibald Constable and Company, Limited; Harrison and Sons, St. Martin's Lane, printers in ordinary to His Majesty.

1908

2 volumes : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits, 3 maps (2 col., folded in pockets) ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

With: Map of King Haakon VII Coast and Queen Maud's Sea, and of Lieut. Hansen and Sergt. Ristveldt's sledge expedition 1905 (compiled by Lieut. Hansen)

With: Route of the Gjöa through the North West Passage.

Copy 1, vol. 1 rebound in buckram.

Copy 2 has prize bookplate, St. Edward's College, Liverpool, midsummer 1909.

Copy 2 presented by Seymour Schulich [Gift2015]

Hansen, Godfred, 1876-1937.
Schulich, Seymour, donor. former owner.
"Gjoa" expedition, 1903-1907.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English

G650 .A5