BURROUGHS, JOHN, JOHN MUIR AND GEORGE GRINNELL (10 résultats)

Cloth - Hard Cover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library with usual markings. Non-author presentation inscription on end leaves. Other very light signs of use/wear. Lacking the two loosely inserted map: "Route Map of Alaska" and "Route Map of the United States." Both volumes remain tight, bright, and otherwise clean. A very nice working set. Due to weight, additional charges will apply for International shipping.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Volume 1 only. Top edge gilt. 1905 gift inscription (not from authors) on front FEP; no other markings. Pages yellowed; deckle edge rough. Fold-out map preceding first chapter has split at fold; both pieces present. Dust jacket is worn at edges and has one small area of loss at upper corner. A delivery signature will be required on this item.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. photogravures by Edward S. Curtis (illustrateur). First Edition. THE FIRST TWO VOLUMES - SUPER COPIES : Here we have the first two volumes :, that eventually rose to the region of 11 by 1905. Vol 1: Narrative, glaciers, natives / by John Burroughs, John Muir, George Bird Grinnell; Vol 2: History, geography, resources / by William H. Dall et al.Alaska.- Burroughs (John), John Muir and George Bird Grinnell. The account of the Harriman Alaska Expedition was first published in eleven volumes between 1901and 1905. They featured numerous photogravures by Edward S. Curtis { see note further down }. A little bit about the inspiration for the expedition, one Edward Henry Harriman, the business executive who controlled a number of transportation companies including the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, organized and financed a maritime scientific exploring expedition to coastal Alaska and Siberia during the summer of 1899. Alaska, purchased from the Russian Empire by the United States Government on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million dollars, was administered as a district beginning in 1884, with a governor appointed by the President of the United States. Harriman asked C. Hart Merriam, a founder of the National Geographic Society, and head of the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy at the United States Department of Agriculture, to select the scientific party. Merriam assembled a multidisciplinary team of thirty that encompassed arctic experts, botanists, biologists and zoologists, geologists and geographers, and artists, photographers, and writers. The writer John Burroughs, naturalist John Muir, geologists Benjamin Emerson and Grove Karl Gilbert, artists Frederick Dellenbaugh and Louis Agassiz Fuertes, photographer Edward S. Curtis, the writer, naturalist, and authority on Native American culture, George Bird Grinnell, and zoologist C. Hart Merriam were counted among the party members. Harriman outfitted the steamship SS George W. Elder with a library of over five hundred titles on Alaska, lecture rooms, a stable for animals and a taxidermy studio, and individual rooms for the members of the scientific expedition. The Elder left Seattle on May 31, 1899, and made stops at Vancouver Island, Metlakatla, Skagway and Sitka, Prince William Sound, Kodiak Island, the Shumagin Islands, and Plover Bay in Siberia. On July 26, during the return leg of the voyage, the ship stopped at the abandoned Tlingit village at Cape Fox in Southeast Alaska, where many native objects and totem poles were removed under protest by certain party members. By July 30, 1899 the Elder had returned to Seattle. A little bit about the Photographer: Curtis grew up in the unbridled outdoors of Wisconsin and Minnesota in the late-nineteenth century. After moving to Seattle in the 1890s, Curtis established himself as the city?s premier society photographer. Maybe better known for his life's work, the recording of the lives of regional Native Americans. He became the official photographer for the Harriman expedition. It was the watershed moment in Curtis's professional life, and launched him on his thirty year mission to create "The North American Indian". Without his seminal experiences on the Harriman Alaska Expedition, it is doubtful that Curtis would ever have envisioned or created his masterwork. 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, colour frontispieces, plates, some colour, maps, occasional spotting or light foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1 corner with a little rubbing, a very good set, clean and securely bound. Volumes continuously numbered 393 pages. The highlights are 39 chromo-lithographs, 85 photogravure plates, [ including 45 by Edward S. Curtis, ] 240 figures and 5 maps. The moment you open these volumes, they reflect the sheer amount of professionalism, with professionals in so many spheres that took part in the expedition. It speaks to you, allows your mind to follow in their footsteps. Wonderful volumes.

Etat : 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.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. 3 volume set. Near fine. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Gilt bordered, with seal and glacier diamond on front of the first two volumes. Handsome bindings and covers. Top edge gilts. Mylar dust jackets. Clean, unmarked pages. xxxvii, [3], 183, [1]; [2], 185-383, [1] pp. Color frontisps. both vols., 37 color plates (some chromolithographs), 85 photogravure plates, 1 large folding color map, numerous text illusts. & maps. V.3 printed in 1910, has original green cloth dust jacket, X, 173 p., 33 plates. Stamp on fep. Note: Penciled inscription states that these books sold for $2990 at Swann's Auction sale 03/12/1997. Name on fep. 45 of the photogravures after photographs by Edward S. Curtis. Contents: v. 1. Narrative, glaciers, natives / by John Burroughs, John Muir and George Bird Grinnell; v. 2. History, geography, resources / by William H. Dallâ v. 4. Geology and paleontology / by B.K. Emerson. Refs: Arctic Bib 6676.

2 vols. Illustrated throughout from photographs and engravings. 4to, publisher's gilt green ribbed cloth, t.e.g., in publisher's flexible cloth gilt-lettered wrappers. First edition. Engraved bookplates on each pastedown; a beautiful set.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. In 1899, wealthy railroad magnate Edward Harriman arranged for a maritime expedition to Alaska. Harriman brought with him an elite community of scientists, artists, photographers, and naturalists to explore and document the Alaskan coast. The Harriman Alaska expedition explored the coast of Alaska for two months, from Seattle to Siberia and back again. Two volume set. 39 chromo-lithographs, 85 photogravure plates, including 45 by Edward S. Curtis, 240 figures, 5 maps. Original gilt-stamped green cloth. No dustjackets. Vol 1, 183 pp; Vol 2, 383 pp. All pages, maps and illustrations present; all protected by tissue guards. Bit of shelf wear to the bottom edges of the text block. Two previous owners' book plates present in both volumes, Steve Fossett Collection of Adventure & Exploration, Ladies Library Association, Port Huron (Mi). No library stamps or any indication that the books were circulated. This is a beautiful first edition set of an important book in the history of travel and exploration and has an association with James Stephen "Steve" Fossett (April 22, 1944 ? September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and was best known for many world records, including five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.

HARD BACK GREEN. Additional Postage Required, 2 volume set, numerous black and white plates, tissue paper still over plates, gilt on cover and spine, tight binding, pages clean, dj made from matching cloth of cover, gilt on spine of dj. 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 DATE PUBLISHED: 1901 EDITION: 384 VERY GOOD/NEAR PRISTINE. JACKET: GOOD DJ.

HARD BACK GREEN. Etat : VERY GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. FIRST ED. 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 DATE PUBLISHED: 1901 EDITION: FIRST ED.

Hardcover. Edward Curtis (illustrateur). First American Edition. Two volumes in publisher's decorated green cloth with the scarce gilt-lettered green cloth dustwrappers. The first volume covers Narrative Glaciers, and Natives; the second History, Geography, and Resources with contributions by William H. Dall, Charles Keller, Henry Gannett, William H. Brewer, C. Hart Merriam, and M. L. Washburn. Beautifully illustrated with 85 photogravures 45 of them from photographs by Edward S. Curtis), 39 chromolithograph plates after paintings by expedition artists, including Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and 3 maps in color (1 folding), in addition to numerous illustrations throughout the text. The 1899 expedition was funded by wealthy railroad baron Edward Harriman and included some of the most famous scientists, authors, and artists of the time launching the career of Edward Curtis and connecting him with Grinnell which would ultimately result in his massive work on photographing Native American tribes. Thirteen volumes about the expedition would ultimately be published, but these first two volumes, published separately, are the only two that recount the expedition; all others were scientific reports. Fine, bright copies in Near Fine, complete dustwrappers and quite scarce in this condition.