Compilation Narratives Explorations Alaska (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 56th Congr, 1st Sess, Senate Report No 1023, 856 pp.+ Many Photo Plts & FoldOut Maps, Orig Full Brn Leather with Red, Grn & Blk Spine Labels, Gilt Title, 4to, VG, 1st ed (Huge & Heavy Volume Filled with Photos & FoldOut Maps of Alaska - Neat).

Cloth. Condition: Ex library - good. First Collected Edition. 56th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 1023. vii, 3-856 p. 30 cm. 27 fold-out maps, 33 full-page plates, numerous in-text illustrations. Blue cloth hardcover. Ex lib. Notation on lower spine, tear in upper spine, worn top corner, rough edge on front board. Endpapers have library labels. Ink stamp and notation on rear of title page. Numerous small tears and chips throughout and soiled title page and text block edge. Collection of reports of explorations in Alaska, mainly by the US Army. Includes report of Senate Committee on Military Affairs, general introduction, 51 reports and sub-reports on such topics as population and resources, international polar expedition to Point Barrow 1881-1884, relief of the destitute in gold fields 1897, up and down the Yukon, military reconnaissance of the Copper River Valley 1898, Tanana Region 1898, Cook Inlet 1899, winter conditions along the Yukon 1899, military road from Valdez to Copper Center, ethnographical information on native tribes, etc.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. 4to., vii, 856 pp., illustrated with graphs, charts, engravings, and numerous (27), large folding maps. Bound in period half leather with marbled paper over boards; with title on the spine in gilt. Marbled end papers and all edges marbled. Moderate edge wear, with the boards mildly rubbed. The joints are rubbed thru at the top third. Text and maps are Fine. A Very Good or better copy. *** There is a small note in pencil that this copy belonged to Congressman John Humphrey Small, from Washington, North Carolina. Small served as chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. ***.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Disbound quarto. Missing paper at spine ends. Covers partially detached. Vii, 3-856. Minor foxing. Top edge/top margins have some occasional tears and a tape repair. ; quarto.

Washington, Governemnt Printing Office, 1900. Large 4to. Orig. red full cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine dusty. VII,856 pp., textillustrations, 33 plates and 27 folded maps. Internally clean and fine.

Washington, Government Printing Office 1900. First edition, large quarto, 56th Congress, 1 session, report 1023. Half-calf over marbled paper covered boards. 51 reports and subreports of explorations made by U.S. army between 1869 and 1899 ? possibly the most comprehensive documentation on these first three decades after the purchase of Alaska by the U.S. Numerous maps, photographic plates and text-illustrations. As stated in the preface: ?The reports of these explorations and reconnaissances of military explorers in Alaska are here for the first time presented in connected narrative form.? Not a very common item in almost pristine condition! Collation: 1 nn leaf, title-page (crossed-out stamp of former owner Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., April 18 1901 ? verso: Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Tenn.), table of contents pp i-vii (list of all the different reports), preface (1 page), introduction pp 5-16, text pp 21-825, index pp 827-851, index of indian tribes pp 853-856. Many very large folding-maps, numerous photographs of unique documentary value, lithograph-plates, text illustrations. This wealth of historic illustrative material, above all the original photographic plates, make this book a treasure-box for the documentation of early Alaskan scenery, native groups, natural habitats! An ideal sourcebook for sub-polar ethnography, topography, as well as geography.

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