HOVGAARD, A.

Forslag til en Dansk Arktisk Expedition.

Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendal, 1882. 8vo. In contemporary full red cloth with two paper labels to front board. Stamp and red paper label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Stamp to title-page. Internally fine and clean. 29 pp. + folded map of the Arctic.

First appearance of Hovgaard's important proposal to investigate the east coast of Greenland which resulted in the expedition of "Djimphna" and "Varna".
This proprosal was translated and published in English the same year.

Order-nr.: 57121