I have here for sale a 2-book set entitled IN NORTHERN MISTS Arctic Exploration in Early Times Vols I and II by Fridtjof Nansen, translated by Arthur G Chater.  It is a first edition published in 1911 by William Heinemann.  

Vol I covers Pytheas, the early Middle Ages, Medieval Knowledge in the North, the Lapps and the first settlement in Scandinavia, Voyages of the Norsemen, Uninhabited Parts of Greenland, and Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles and the Discovery of America.  It has a tipped-in colour frontispiece and has many in-text b/w illustrations.

Vol II covers a continuation of Wineland the Good, Eskimo and Skraeling, Decline of the Norse settlements in Greenland, Expeditions of the Norwegians to the White Sea, the North in Maps and Geographical Works, John Cabot and the English discovery of North America, and the Portuguese Discoveries in the North-West.  It has a tipped-in colour frontispiece and again b/w illustrations throughout the text.  

Bound in cornflower blue hardboards with a semi-circular gilt image of a sunset on a horizon with the sea in the foreground.  Black title lettering to the front board and in gilt to the spine.  Both spines are a bit chipped to head and tail and faded.  Corners a little bumped.  Bookplate to front endpaper.  Tanning to front and rear free endpapers.  Pages rough cut but clean throughout both volumes.  Condition: very good.  Vol I - 384 pages, Vol II - 416 pages.  27 x 20 cm.

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