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New York: Doubleday, 1902. Hardcover. very good. xxxvii(3)183; (4)185-383pp.pp. Octavo. Bound in the original green cloth with gilt decoration. Gilt title on spine. Top edge trimmed others untrimmed. Original green cloth backed dust wrappers. 39 plates in color 85 photogravure plates. Hundreds of intext illustrations. Folding map. A spectacular set complete with the two original dustwrappers. Arctic Biblio. 6676; Ricks p.116. Originally planned as a bear hunt, Harriman, a railroad magnate, invited many of the leading scientists of the day, and the undertaking grew to be possibly the largest and most elaborate private expedition over mounted. A steamer was chartered, and the party cruised the northwest coast between May & July, 1899, reaching as far north as Port Clarence. Many of the photos are by Edward Curtis, and the book is a beautiful production. Ten additional volumes of scientific results were published in ensuing years. 1902
Alaska Volume I & II by Burroughs, Muir, Grinnell, Dall, Keller - 1901: Fantastic Two Volumes of the 1899 Harriman Expedition
by Burroughs, Muir, Grinnell, Dall, Keller
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Alaska Volume I & II: Fantastic Two Volumes of the 1899 Harriman Expedition
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Alaska Volume I: Narrative Glaciers, Natives
Alaska Volume II: History, Geography, Resources
Volume I: John Burroughs, John Muir, George Bird Grinnell
Volume II: William H. Dall, Charles Keller, Henry Gannett, William H. Brewer, C. Hart Merriam, George Bird Grinnell, M. L. Washburn
Fantastic Two Volumes of the 1899 Harriman Expedition
First edition of this beautifully illustrated work chronicling the Harriman expedition investigating the Alaskan flora, fauna, geology, climate, Eskimos, geography, and more. Leaving Seattle on May 31, 1899 on the Elder, the 126 passengers visited Vancouver Island, Metlakatta, Skagway, Sitka, Popof and Shumagin Islands and Plover Bay Siberia before returning to Seattle on July 30,1899.
Edward Harriman was one of America's wealthiest railroad barons at the time, and decided to make an expedition to Alaska with his family, and some of the most famous scientists and experts he could assemble for the trek. They included John Muir, author & naturalist; Henry Gannett, cartographer; R. Swain Gifford, the landscape painter; William Dall, paleontologist & geographer; Edward Curtis, noted photographer; Louis Agassiz Fuertes, ornithology artist; Frederick Dellenbaugh; Grinnell, noted expert on Native Americans, and many others.
This expedition launched the career of Edward Curtis who contributed 45 photographs for these volumes, and connected him with Grinnell which would later launch his massive work on photographing the Native American tribes. The photogravures and color plates of this edition were never duplicated with this and detail in the later printings and reprints.
New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901, First Edition. Two volumes Volume 1: 183 pages, Volume 2: 185-383 pages. Very nice color frontispiece in both volumes. Heavily illustrated with 37 color plates (some chromolithographs), 85 photogravure plates, 1 large folding color map, numerous text illustrations and maps. Ultra clean publisher's green ribbed cloth, bright gilt illustration of seal on front cover with gilt ruling, top edge gilt. Books are near FINE.
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Alaska. Volume I: Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. Volume II: History, Geography, Resources.
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New York:: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1901.. First edition.. publisher's gilt green ribbed cloth, t.e.g., in publisher's flexible cloth gilt-lettered wrappers.. Engraved bookplates on each pastedown; a beautiful set.. 4to,. Illustrated throughout from photographs and engravings..
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