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Price: US$751.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xxxvii(3)183; (4)185-383pp.pp. Octavo. Bound in the original green cloth with gilt decoration. Gilt title on spine. Top edge trimmed others untrimmed. Original green cloth backed dust wrappers. 39 plates in color 85 photogravure plates. Hundreds of intext illustrations. Folding map. A spectacular set complete with the two original dustwrappers. Arctic Biblio. 6676; Ricks p.116. Originally planned as a bear hunt, Harriman, a railroad magnate, invited many of the leading scientists of the day, and the undertaking grew to be possibly the largest and most elaborate private expedition over mounted. A steamer was chartered, and the party cruised the northwest coast between May & July, 1899, reaching as far north as Port Clarence. Many of the photos are by Edward Curtis, and the book is a beautiful production. Ten additional volumes of scientific results were published in ensuing years.
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[MERRIAM, C. Hart, ed.]. Harriman Alaska Expedition. Volume I: Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. , 1902.
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Description: (ALASKA). [MERRIAM, C. Hart, ed.]. Harriman Alaska Expedition. Volume I: Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. Volume II: History, Geography, Resources. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902. 4to. 2 Vols. xxxvii,183;185-383pp. Frontises., 240 textual figures, 39 chromolithographs and 85 photogravure plates, including 45 by Edward S. Curtis, 5 maps (including 2 folding). Orig. cloth, T.e.g., orig. cloth d/js. Small inkstain to jacket of Vol. Two., contemporary gift inscription, else near fine. $1000.00 Second printing of the first two, and most important, volumes of this set detailing the E. H. Harriman Expedition to Alaska. Harriman originally planned a summer pleasure cruise to Alaska with his family in 1899, but expanded it to include three artists and 25 men of science, including many members of the Washington academy of sciences. The voyage lasted two months and covered 9,000 miles. Vol. One is written by John Burroughs, John Muir, and G. B. Grinnell. The many photographs by Edward S. Curtis are stunning.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.