THE WONDERS OF ALASKA... by Badlam, Alexander - 1890

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

New.

San Francisco: Published for the author, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition, revised. Octavo. vii, 154pp. With frontis photo, illustrations and maps. Gilt and black ornately decorated light green cloth. Soiled cloth, scattered pencil underlining throughout, else a very good copy.

San Francisco: Published For The Author, 1891., 1891. 8vo. pp. vii, [1 leaf], 164. 8 maps & 26 plates (incl. frontis.). 1 text illus. decorative tailpieces & initials. original black & gilt-stamped decorative cloth (front flyleaf detached). Third Edition, Revised. Including a brief history of Alaska, descriptions of the scenery, glaciers and major cities of the northwest (Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver), and notes on the native tribes and Esquimaux and their manners and customs, education in Alaska, animal life, natural resources (furs, fisheries, mining, timber), phantom cities, the Chinook jargon, and routes to Alaska. The author was treasurer of the California-Russian Fur Co. Arctic Bib. 905. Smith 401. cfRicks p. 31 & cfWickersham 1964 (1st: 1890).. Hardcover.

San Francisco: The Bancroft Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. The decorated covers are lightly soiled, with rubbing at the corners. The spine is darkened. Very clean & tight internally. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages .

San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1890. 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. Hardcover. Very Good.

San Francisco:: The Bancroft Company,, 1890.. First edition.. publisher's illustrated cloth.. Rubbed at corners and extremities of spine; but a nice copy, tight and sound.. 8vo,. With illustrations and maps. Bookplate: Library of U.S. Grant, Jr; and with the ownership signature of Miss Mirian Grant, San Diego,1894.

San Francisco, CA: The Bancroft Library, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 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).