![DOUGLAS, Mary. Across Greenland's Ice-Fields. The Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-cap. [With:] –. Breaking the Record. The Story of North Polar Expeditions by the Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen Route. [And:] –. The White North: with Nordenskiöld, De Long, and Nansen. London: Thomas Nelson, 1897, 1898, and 1899.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/NYR/2017_NYR_15724_0330_000(douglas_mary_across_greenlands_ice-fields_the_adventures_of_nansen_and061428).jpg?w=1)
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DOUGLAS, Mary. Across Greenland's Ice-Fields. The Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-cap. [With:] –. Breaking the Record. The Story of North Polar Expeditions by the Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen Route. [And:] –. The White North: with Nordenskiöld, De Long, and Nansen. London: Thomas Nelson, 1897, 1898, and 1899.
A set of uniformly bound children’s books about Arctic exploration. The stories of famous explorers, including Nansen and Peary, are presented for young readers, with copious illustrations.
Octavo (181 x 129mm). 43 plates. Uniformly bound in the publisher’s original blue pictorial cloth, with different endpapers. Provenance: Percy Honnor (gift inscription in The White North dated 1900).
A set of uniformly bound children’s books about Arctic exploration. The stories of famous explorers, including Nansen and Peary, are presented for young readers, with copious illustrations.
Octavo (181 x 129mm). 43 plates. Uniformly bound in the publisher’s original blue pictorial cloth, with different endpapers. Provenance: Percy Honnor (gift inscription in The White North dated 1900).