Nordpol-Expedition

Die österreichisch-ungarische Nordpol-Expedition in den Jahren 1872-1874, nebst einer Skizze dr zweiten deutschen Nordpol-Expedition 1869-1870 und der Polar-Expedition von 1871.

By Julius Payer

Alfred Hölder, Wien, 1876. First Edition, 8vo, 696pp., [i-cvi]. In the original 25 parts and including publisher’s original pictorial green cloth elaborately stamped in bright gilt and black on front cover and spine — back cover elaborately blind stamped in bright gilt; 3 fold-out colour maps, 145 wood-engraved plates; original publisher’s advertisement for ordering cover boards and subscription still bound in Part 25. A Very Rare set of the original 25 parts and now preserved in an attractive clam shell box..— Arctic Bibliography 13204.

ALSO: with a bound-in letter in Part I signed by both Julius Payer and his wife, Fanny Payer.

First published account of the expedition in the Tegetthoff, under Lieutenants Karl Weyprecht and Julius Payer, to explore the region north of Novaya Zemlya . the discovery and exploration by sledge of Franz Josef Land, including chapters on auroras, the technique of sledge travel, and the effect of cold . Account of the abandonment of their ship in March 1874, and of the return by sledge and boat.