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Alaska
Henry Wood ELLIOTT (1846-1930). Report on the Prybilov Group, or Seal Islands, of Alaska. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. 4° (296 x 243mm). Mounted on guards throughout. 49 mounted albumen-print photographs after drawings by Elliott. (Occasional light spotting, some fading to prints.) Contemporary half morocco (extremities rubbed). First edition, very rare:the Library of Congress online catalog notes that 127 copies were printed (the pressses were apparently stopped because of the outspoken opinions of the author).
[With:]
Patrick Henry RAY (1842-1911) and others. Report of the Internationsl Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1885. 4° (292 x 230mm). Coloured lithographic frontispiece, 23 plates (including 10 phototype plates, 2 chromolithographs and 1 tinted lithograph), 1 folding map. Original cloth (extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Andrew Taylor (bookplate). First edition. Cf.Arctic Bibliography 14291-14293.
George WARDMAN. A Trip to Alaska A narrative of what was seen and heard during a summer cruise in Alaskan waters. Boston: Lee & Shepard and Charles T.Dillingham of New york, 1884. Small 8° (179 x 120mm). Original green cloth, blocked in silver. Arctic Bibliography 19122.
Septima Maria COLLIS (1842-1917). A Woman's Trip to Alaska Being an account of a voyage through the inland seas of the Sitkan Archipelago in 1890. New York: Cassell Publishing Co., [circa 1890]. 8° (212 x 150mm). Folding colour frontispiece, one map, numerous illustrations (some titnted). Original cloth (slightly soiled, spine somewhat faded and chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Thomas F.Cakes (presentation inscription from the author, dated 1890). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 3353; together with 41 other works in 45 volumes (including: Charles SUMNER. Speech of Hon.Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts on the cession of Russian America to the United States, Washington, 1867, 8°; Fred CREWE. Poems of Klondyke's Early Days and Alsaka's Long White Trail, Milwaukee, 1921, oblong 8°; Hudson STRUCK. A Winter Circuit of our Arctic coast, New York, 1920, 8°; Frederick SCHWATKA. A summer in Alaska, St.Louis, 1894, 8°; John J.UNDERWOOD. Alaska An empire in the making, New York, 1913, 8°; William Watson WOOLLEN. The Inside Passage to Alaska 1792-1920, Cleveland, 1924, 2 vols., 8°; William H.DALL. Alaska and its resources, Boston, 1870, 8°; [P.H.RAY and others]. Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska, Washington, 1900, 4°). (49)
Henry Wood ELLIOTT (1846-1930). Report on the Prybilov Group, or Seal Islands, of Alaska. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. 4° (296 x 243mm). Mounted on guards throughout. 49 mounted albumen-print photographs after drawings by Elliott. (Occasional light spotting, some fading to prints.) Contemporary half morocco (extremities rubbed). First edition, very rare:the Library of Congress online catalog notes that 127 copies were printed (the pressses were apparently stopped because of the outspoken opinions of the author).
[With:]
Patrick Henry RAY (1842-1911) and others. Report of the Internationsl Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1885. 4° (292 x 230mm). Coloured lithographic frontispiece, 23 plates (including 10 phototype plates, 2 chromolithographs and 1 tinted lithograph), 1 folding map. Original cloth (extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: Andrew Taylor (bookplate). First edition. Cf.Arctic Bibliography 14291-14293.
George WARDMAN. A Trip to Alaska A narrative of what was seen and heard during a summer cruise in Alaskan waters. Boston: Lee & Shepard and Charles T.Dillingham of New york, 1884. Small 8° (179 x 120mm). Original green cloth, blocked in silver. Arctic Bibliography 19122.
Septima Maria COLLIS (1842-1917). A Woman's Trip to Alaska Being an account of a voyage through the inland seas of the Sitkan Archipelago in 1890. New York: Cassell Publishing Co., [circa 1890]. 8° (212 x 150mm). Folding colour frontispiece, one map, numerous illustrations (some titnted). Original cloth (slightly soiled, spine somewhat faded and chipped at head and foot). Provenance: Thomas F.Cakes (presentation inscription from the author, dated 1890). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 3353; together with 41 other works in 45 volumes (including: Charles SUMNER. Speech of Hon.Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts on the cession of Russian America to the United States, Washington, 1867, 8°; Fred CREWE. Poems of Klondyke's Early Days and Alsaka's Long White Trail, Milwaukee, 1921, oblong 8°; Hudson STRUCK. A Winter Circuit of our Arctic coast, New York, 1920, 8°; Frederick SCHWATKA. A summer in Alaska, St.Louis, 1894, 8°; John J.UNDERWOOD. Alaska An empire in the making, New York, 1913, 8°; William Watson WOOLLEN. The Inside Passage to Alaska 1792-1920, Cleveland, 1924, 2 vols., 8°; William H.DALL. Alaska and its resources, Boston, 1870, 8°; [P.H.RAY and others]. Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska, Washington, 1900, 4°). (49)
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