[Rarebooks] FS: HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION, 1901, in Superb Condition with Dustwrappers

[Charles Agvent]

BURROUGHS, John; MUIR, John; GRINNELL, George Bird. HARRIMAN ALASKA 
EXPEDITION WITH COOPERATION OF WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. ALASKA. 
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. 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. 
(#021424)        $2,500

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