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[Map] Dunér N. / Nordenskiöld A. F.

Karta öfver Spetsbergen, hufvudsakligast enligt iakttagelser under de svenska expeditionerna åren 1861 och 1864 [...] Stockholm maj 1865.

Lith. o. tr. Hos Abrah. Lundquist & Cie. Folded 30 x 20 cm. Unfolded 98 x 70 cm.

Nice condition.

A large map of Svalbard (Spetsbergen) executed mainly after observations by the Swedish expeditions of 1861 and 1864. Most annotations and place names on the map in Swedish, but some also in English. Just north of the island runs a line marking the northernmost border of ice free sea in the summer. No settlements marked on the map. Published in Kongliga Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar in the 1860s. (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences).

Item No: 4235