AMUNDSEN, Roald (1872-1928). The Northwest Passage. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1908. 2 volumes, 8vo. Engraved frontispieces, color folding map at rear of each volume, numerous plates from art and photographs. Original gilt-lettered and decorated black cloth (faint stain to rear cover of vol. I, else exceptionally fine). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Amundsen?s famous first-hand account of the three-year journey through the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific- a feat that had eluded Arctic explorers for centuries. A NEAR FINE COPY, rarely seen in such condition. Arctic Bib. 402.