Observations faites au Cap Thordsen, Spitzberg, par l'expédition Suédoise publiées par l'académie royale des sciences de Suéde. Tome I:1-4--II:3 [complete]

Gott skick. Stockholm 1886-1891. Total 1.156 pp + 97 plates lithographed by W. Schlachter & Central Tryckeriet, Stockholm. Five volumes. [31,5x25 cm]. Richly illustrated with folding plates, maps and diagrams. Uncut in original printed wrappers, except I:4 wich is in wrappers. Very little foxing in Tome II. The complete scientific results of the expedition. - Arctic Bibliography 494, 2873-4, 4439-41, 6414 & 16443. Hulth Swedish Arctic and Antarctic Explorations, 91. De Geer, Swedish Spitzbergen Maps 35-37. [Exploration internationale des régions polaires 1882-1883]. Gösta H. Liljequist 'High Latitudes', pp. 173-85. The Swedish Wintering Expedition of 1882-1883 to Spitzbergen, led by Nils Ekholm. Other members of the expedition, E. Solander, V. Carlheim-Gyllensköld, S. A. Andrée, R. Gyllencreutz, and others. Tome I: 1. Ekholm, Nils, Introduction historique. 2 plates and 1 map. 40pp. Tome I:2. Ekholm, Nils, Observations astronomiques, géodesique et marégraphiques. 55pp. + Appendice, Stjernspetz, H., Reconnaisances géographiques. 2 maps. Tome I:3. Ekholm, Nils, Observations météorologiques. 13 plates. 278pp. Tome I:4. Solander, E., Magnétisme terrestre. 20 plates. 238pp. ?Tome II: 1. Carlheim-Gyllenskiöld, Aurores boreales. 30 plates. 409pp. Tome II:2. Andrée, S. A., Électricité atmosphérique. 5 plates. 53pp. Tome II:3. Carlheim-Gyllenskiöld, Phénomènes potiques de látmosphère, avec quelques remarques sur les Étoiles filantes, le spectre des Copépodes, láccroissement des brins dórge. 20pp. Tome II:4. Gyllencreutz, Recherches sur le prétendu changements de la couleur de la peau après un hivernage dans les régions polaires. 27pp. For the International Polar Year of 1882-3, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, with government and private backing, sponsored an expedition to establish a scientific station in Mosselbukta on the North Coast of Spitsbergen. Heavy ice that season resulted in the use of an alternative site at Cap Thordsen on the north shore of Isfjorden. The present set of reports was the only publication to appear following the return of the expedition. It includes the leaders narrative of the expedition, along with results of astronomical, meteorological, electrical and biological observations. The expedition team included Salomon August Andrée, later to lead his own ill-fated expedition to the North Pole. Ämnesord: Polar, Spetsbergen, Svalbard, Arktis, Astronomi, Spitsbergen, Spitzbergen, Arctic, Salomon August Andrée, Ballongflygning, Ballooning, Astronomi, Astronomy, Meteorologi