Norwegian explorer (1872–1928) who navigated the Northwest Passage, fixed the position of the North Magnetic Pole, and was the first to reach the South Pole. First edition book set: The North West Passage, Vols. I and II, by Roald Amundsen. First edition. London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1908. Hardcovers bound in the publisher's dark green cloth with gilt-stamped titles, 6.75 x 9.5, 335 and 397 pages, with folding map plates intact. The frontispiece of the first volume features Amundsen's facsimile signature. Book condition: G+/None, with rubbing to boards, bumped corners, and wear and sunning to spines.
