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SVERDRUP, Otto (1854-1930). New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. 8vos. Illustrated with frontispieces and numerous full-page and intertextual illustrations; 2 loose folding maps in pocket of rp. of volume II. 496; 504 pp. Publisher's full blue cloth, front board and spines stamped in silver (spines toned and worn, boards worn, bumped, endleaves offset, hinges starting, previous owner's initials on title-page of volume I). Good. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. This title is an important record of Sverdrup's expedition through the Western Arctic aboard the “Fram". Sverdrup served under Nansen under his two expeditions - to Greenland and the “Farthest North" voyages.