Frifjof Nansen’s “Farthest North”

Being the record of a voyage of exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893 – 96, and of a fifteen months’ sleigh journey by D. Nansen and Lieut Johansen. With an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram. London : Macmillan and Co., circa 1910. Macmillan’s Colonial Library. Octavo, volume two only (lacking the first volume) in a fine prize binding for Sydney Grammar School, full polished calf, ruled in gilt with floral corner emblems, the school’s armorial crest with motto Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis on upper board, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt tooling and contrasting morocco title labels, lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, prize label to upper pastedown, pp. viii; 471; large folding map, a fine copy.

This book was awarded to James Farish Stephen, whose obituary appeared in The Sydneian, no. 358, July 1967:

‘JAMES FARISH STEPHEN James Farish Stephen (1901) died in December last. Mr. Stephen had a distinguished academic record at School winning the following prizes:- 1902 – Morehead Scholarship. 1895, 1901 – Knox Prizes. 1901 – Wigram Allen Prize Mathematics. 1900 Wigram Allen Prize Natural Science. He was a life Member of the Old Sydneians’ Union.’