(Arctic Expeditions, North Pole.) Edward Adams-Ray (translat...

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(Arctic Expeditions, North Pole.) Edward Adams-Ray (translated): 'The Andree Diaries being the diaries and records of S.A. Andree, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel written during their balloon expedition to the North Pole in 1897 and discovered on White Island in 1930, together with a complete record of the Expedition and Discovery.', London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931, 1st edition in English, 103 illustrations + 6 maps (including folding map at end), plans & diagrams as called for, original cloth gilt. Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897) was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. The balloon expedition was unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in the deaths of all three of its participants; together with Fridtjof Nansen: 'Farthest North', Constable, 1900, portrait frontis + numerous plates & maps including 1 folding, orig. cloth gilt, F. Spencer Chapman: 'Northern Lights. The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-1931', L, Chatto, 1932, 1st edition, frontis, folding map + 63 plates as called for, orig. cloth (3)