NANSEN, Fridtjof. Through Siberia the Land of the Future, translated by A. G. Chater, London: William Heinemann, 1914, 4° (245 x 181mm.), FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, front free endpaper inscribed by Nansen to H. St. G. Saunders: "with warmest thanks for excellent help in July and August 1922 ...," numerous plates and maps, original publisher's cloth (lower front inner hinge cracked, spine lightly faded).

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NANSEN, Fridtjof. Through Siberia the Land of the Future, translated by A. G. Chater, London: William Heinemann, 1914, 4° (245 x 181mm.), FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, front free endpaper inscribed by Nansen to H. St. G. Saunders: "with warmest thanks for excellent help in July and August 1922 ...," numerous plates and maps, original publisher's cloth (lower front inner hinge cracked, spine lightly faded).
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Hilary Adain St. George Saunders was Nansen's private secretary in Istanbul for three years after the first World War.

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