BURROUGHS, JOHN, Muir, JOHN Keeler, Charles, Gannett, Henry, Brewer, William, Merriam, Hart, Grinnell, George Bird; Washburn,; Harriman Alaska Expedition Vols. I-III
NY, DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO, 1901 FIRST ED, HARD BACK
Overall Condition is: VERY GOOD
Tall thick 8vo. xxxvii, [3], 183, [1]; [2], 185-383, [1] pp. Colour frontisps. both vols., 37 colour plates (some chromolithographs), 85 photogravure plates, 1 large folding colour map, numerous text illusts. & maps. Vol. III does not have a dj, and the hinge is somewhat loose. The dj's on Vol. I-II are cloth and the edges are slightly fraying, gold gilt on spines, deckled fore edges, rubbed extremeties. Vol. III is somewhat more worn than the other books. Vol I - Narratives, Glaciers, Natives with dustjacket Vol II - History, Geography, Resources with dustjacket Vol. III - Glaciers and Glaciation volume I, narrative of glaciers and natives, volume II, history, geography and resources, frontispieces in color, twelve color plates of landscapes, twenty-five color plates of birds, mammals, and flowers, eighty-five photogravure plates, 240 text figures, one sketch map, one color plate map, one color folding map, green cloth, gilt lettering with green dust wraps. Gravures of landscapes and native dwellings by the then studio photographer Edward Curtis
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