Inside Passage to Alaska: 1792 - 1920 (Vol 1 and 2), 1924, 1st
by William Watson Woollen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Volume 1 342pp. fine; volume 2 318pp., has stamped on the front free endpaper the word
- Seller
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Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
The Inside Passage to Alaska 1792-1920 with an Account of the North Pacific Coast from Cape Mendocino to Cook Inlet. Two volumes. Vol 1 342pp. with frontis plus six plates; Vol 2 318pp. with map and ten plates. (8vo) original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, deckled fore-edge (some pages still uncut). First Edition. Edited from Woollen's original manuscript by Paul L. Hawarth.
About this book
William Woollen was an Indiana lawyer, outdoorsman, and birder; this work chronicles Vancouver's voyages as well as his own travels on the North Pacific coast. Arctic Bib. 19679; Tourville 4960; Wickersham 2265.
A chronicle, including the explorations of Captain Vancouver, with much on the natural history, based on the author's five trips through the area. 1000 copies printed but reportedly the author's family had 500 destroyed. Quite scarce.
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- Bookseller
- Yamhill Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LAW100
- Title
- Inside Passage to Alaska: 1792 - 1920 (Vol 1 and 2), 1924, 1st
- Author
- William Watson Woollen
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Volume 1 342pp. fine; volume 2 318pp., has stamped on the front free endpaper the word
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, limited
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Arthur H Clarke Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1924
- Pages
- Vol 1 342pp. with frontis plus six plates; Vol 2 318pp. with map and ten plates.
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Inside Passage, Alaska
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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