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Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original black cloth, shows wear. Ex-library copy with two stamps on title page. "Withdrawn Smithsonian Institution Libraries." "Bureau of American Ethnology Library 6679". No other library markings. 121 pages followed by 20 numbered fold-out maps of Alaska. Map No. 1 has been archivally repaired at folds. Text block very clean and binding tight. The expedition through the Yukon was authorized for the purpose of assessing the indigenous populations from a military perspective. Alaska became part of the US with "Seward's Folly" purchase of the land from Russia in 1867. It became a "district" of the US in 1884, then a territory, and ultimately was proclaimed a state in 1959.
Seller: Alan Angele Popular Culture, IOBA, Upper Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo; in publisher's black cloth; [ii], [1], 121 pages; followed by 20 numbers folding maps; previous owner name rubber-stamped on the pastedown.~~Frederick Schwatka was a graduate of West Point, and had degrees in medicine and law. This report is of his mission to reconnoiter the Yukon River. He led his men over the Chilkoot Pass, built rafts and floated down the Yukon to the Bering Sea (the longest raft journey ever made (cf. Martin Sandler, Ghost Ship, New York: Sterling Publishing Co. (2006), pp 2478-48). Very Good binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Senate Document. Fold-out maps and illustrations. Library markings include small spine label, interior stamp, rear pocket. The front hinge leather is split with only the interior cord holding the front cover. Text is clean and seldom, if ever, read. ; Ex-Library; 8vo
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. 8vo(9" x 6"), gilt gray cloth. 121 pp., with 20 folding maps. Bookplate from the "Post Library, Fort Brown, Texas. No. 1465." CONDITION: Good ex-library, worn cover, spine sunned, slightly cocked, library marks throughout, some maps with light tears at edges and separations at folds. Report on a United States military and geographical expedition through Alaska, traversing the Inland Passage, Chilkat Country, mountains and glaciers. Expedition members built a raft for travel on the lakes and then the rapids of Yukon River, ending 1303 miles later in the Aleutian Islands. Lieutenant Schwatka was chosen to command this expedition to survey Alaska and report on the native population after participating in the 1878 American Geographical Society search for lost Northwest Passage explorer Sir John Franklin.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A quality copy. Publisher's brown boards. 1 p. l., 121 p. illus., 20 folding maps. 24 cm. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. From Chilkoot Inlet, Alaska to Fort Selkirk, on Yukon River, Alaska. Account of Indian tribes. Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate), 48th Congress, 2nd session, no. 2.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good+. Hardcover bound in light green cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine, 121 pages plus 20 fold-out maps. Very clean, bright copy. Binding solid. Maps tipped-in in back, overall condition Near Fine: bright, paper still supple, with a couple short tears. Please feel free to email for photos and further description.
Seller: Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.