[Arctic] SPITZBERG - a set of 14 fascicles on the SPITZBERG, - Lot 132

[Arctic] SPITZBERG - a set of 14 fascicles on the SPITZBERG, the majority of which are authored by NORDENSKIÖLD. One volume. NORDENSKIÖLD (A): geografiska ortsbestämningar pâ Spetsbergen. Stockholm, Norstedt , 1863. 46 pages. BLOMSTRAND: Geognostiska Iakttagelser under en resa till Spetsbergen. Stockholm, Norstedt , 1864. 46 pages and two color plates. NORDENSKIÖLD (A): Geografisk och Geognostisk beskrifing (...). Stockholm, Norstedt , 1863. 25 pages and a large folding map in color. DUNER and NORDENSKIÖLD: Anteckningar till Spetsbergens geografi. Stockholm, Norstedt, 1865. 15 pages and a very large cloth-covered color map. LINDSTROM: Om Trias-och Juraforsteningar fran Spetsbergen. 1865. 20 pages, and 3 engraved plates. NORDENSKIÖLD: Utkast till Spetsbergens geologi. 1866. 35 pages. One map in black, one folding map in color. DUNER and NORDENSKIÖLD: Forberedande undersokningar..af en gradmatning pa Spetsbergen. 1866. 19 pages and one folding map in black. FRIES: Lichenes Spitsbergenses. Stockholm, Norstedt , 1867. 53 pages. AGARDH: Bidrag till Kännedomen af Spetsbergens alger. Stockholm, Norstedt, 1868. 12 pages and two plates of seaweed in color. AGARDH: Bidrag till Kännedomen af Spetsbergens alger. 1868. Pages 27 to 49. One plate of seaweed in color. HOLMGREN: Bidrag till Kännedomen om beeren eilands och Spetsbergens Insekt-Fauna. Stockholm, Norstedt, 1869. 55 pages. HEER (Oswald): Die miocene flora und fauna Spitzbergens. Stockholm, Norstedt, 1870. 98 pages and 16 color plates. LEMSTROM (Karl Selim): Magnetika observationer under Svenska polar expeditionem ar 1868. Stockholm, Norstedt, 1870. 47 pages. NORDENSKIÖLD: Meteorologiska Iakttagelser, anställda pa Beeren-eiland. Stockholm, Norstedt, 1870. 20 pages Contemporary half-brown basane, spine with 4 false nerves, spines worn. Some scattered foxing, otherwise very good condition inside. All issues published by Kongl Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. The book is said to have come from the library of Robert VIVIAN, the famous glaciologist who died recently. Adolf Erick NORDENSKIÖLD (1832-1901) was a great Finnish explorer. He left his name to a part of Spitzbergen, and to a glacier. The 1860s and 1880s were the years of numerous scientific studies on the continental island of Spitsbergen. .