compilation narratives explorations alaska (3 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Ex library - good. First Collected Edition. 56th Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 1023. vii, 3-856 p. 30 cm. 27 fold-out maps, 33 full-page plates, numerous in-text illustrations. Blue cloth hardcover. Ex lib. Notation on lower spine, tear in upper spine, worn top corner, rough edge on front board. Endpapers have library labels. Ink stamp and notation on rear of title page. Numerous small tears and chips throughout and soiled title page and text block edge. Collection of reports of explorations in Alaska, mainly by the US Army. Includes report of Senate Committee on Military Affairs, general introduction, 51 reports and sub-reports on such topics as population and resources, international polar expedition to Point Barrow 1881-1884, relief of the destitute in gold fields 1897, up and down the Yukon, military reconnaissance of the Copper River Valley 1898, Tanana Region 1898, Cook Inlet 1899, winter conditions along the Yukon 1899, military road from Valdez to Copper Center, ethnographical information on native tribes, etc.

Washington, Governemnt Printing Office, 1900. Large 4to. Orig. red full cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine dusty. VII,856 pp., textillustrations, 33 plates and 27 folded maps. Internally clean and fine.

Washington, Government Printing Office 1900. First edition, large quarto, 56th Congress, 1 session, report 1023. Half-calf over marbled paper covered boards. 51 reports and subreports of explorations made by U.S. army between 1869 and 1899 ? possibly the most comprehensive documentation on these first three decades after the purchase of Alaska by the U.S. Numerous maps, photographic plates and text-illustrations. As stated in the preface: ?The reports of these explorations and reconnaissances of military explorers in Alaska are here for the first time presented in connected narrative form.? Not a very common item in almost pristine condition! Collation: 1 nn leaf, title-page (crossed-out stamp of former owner Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., April 18 1901 ? verso: Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Tenn.), table of contents pp i-vii (list of all the different reports), preface (1 page), introduction pp 5-16, text pp 21-825, index pp 827-851, index of indian tribes pp 853-856. Many very large folding-maps, numerous photographs of unique documentary value, lithograph-plates, text illustrations. This wealth of historic illustrative material, above all the original photographic plates, make this book a treasure-box for the documentation of early Alaskan scenery, native groups, natural habitats! An ideal sourcebook for sub-polar ethnography, topography, as well as geography.