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Badlam, Alexander. Wonders of Alaska. Bancroft Company, San Francisco, CA, 1890.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. [vii], 148 pp.Frontispiece. Illustrations and maps. Hardcover binding, black lettering cover and spine, pictorial cover, very good condition. (100218).

Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

Badlam, Alexander. THE WONDERS OF ALASKA. The Bancroft Company, San Francisco, 1890.

Price: US$201.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 37 illustrations. 152 pp. Green-patterned endpapers, with light foxing. Small stains on front paste-down endpaper. Front board a little loose. Blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Corners bumped, yellowed spine with head and tail lightly worn. VG

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

BADLAM, Alexander.. The Wonders of Alaska.. The Bancroft Company, San Francisco, 1890.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Description: viii, 152 pp. With illustrations and maps. 8vo, publisher's illustrated cloth. First edition. Rubbed at corners and extremities of spine; but a nice copy, tight and sound. Bookplate: Library of U.S. Grant, Jr; and with the ownership signature of Miss Mirian Grant, San Diego,1894.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Badlam, Alexander.. The Wonders of Alaska with Illustrations and Maps.. The Bancroft Company, San Francisco, 1890.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Cover illustrated with images of Alaskan glaciers., Some markings in contemporary ink on recto of frontispiece., Size : 4to, Illustrated with frontispiece, 28 additional plates, illustrated head and tail pieces, and 8 maps of Alaskan landscapes, glaciers, native races and animal life., Pp. (i), title-page, preface, contents, list of illustrations, 1-152.

Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

Badlam, Alexander. The Wonders of Alaska. The Bancroft Library, San Francisco, CA, 1890.

Price: US$325.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Richly illustrated with maps, plates from photographs, and two blueprints of ship plans. A rather unususal Alaska book, a journey from Seattle to Vancouver Island and then inland. Touches on climbing glaciers, natural resources, wildlife and Native Americans (material culture, language, and social structure). Includes an illustrated chapter on mirage cities, which various travelers claimed to see cities hovering above the glaciers and/ir submerged in Glacier Bay/ Uncommon generally, very scarce in as fine condition as found here. Light shelf/edge wear, one tip just starting through, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Black ink lettering, gilt decorative elements, printed endpages, frontispiece. 8vo. 152pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.