Title: Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America, Now Ceded to the United States, and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific Author: Whymper, Frederick Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Brothers Date: 1869 Description: xviii, [2], 21-353 + 2 ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout (some full-page, including frontispiece with tissue-guard); large folding map of the Yukon area and Kwich-Pak River. 8vo. Original gilt-decorated brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. First Edition. Frederick Whymper was a member of the Russian-American Overland Telegraph Expedition of 1865-66 and his travels included Kamchatka, the west coast of the Okhotsk Sea, and the Yukon River. A well-written and valuable narrative. This the copy of Richard W. Meade, U.S.N. with his bookplate to front pastedown and his signature "Richard W. Meade, Jr." to blank leaf preceding frontispiece. Rear Admiral Meade (1837-1897) saw distinguished service as an officer during the Civil War and later as Commander of the steamer Saginaw along the Alaskan coast in 1869-71. Steady promotions led to his appointment as rear admiral in 1892. Lot Amendments Condition: Lacking a portion of the folding map, which is laid in loose; lacking 1 plate, else quite clean and unworn. Item number: 174058
Title: Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America, Now Ceded to the United States, and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific Author: Whymper, Frederick Place: New York Publisher: Harper & Brothers Date: 1869 Description: xviii, [2], 21-353 + 2 ad pp. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout (some full-page, including frontispiece with tissue-guard); large folding map of the Yukon area and Kwich-Pak River. 8vo. Original gilt-decorated brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. First Edition. Frederick Whymper was a member of the Russian-American Overland Telegraph Expedition of 1865-66 and his travels included Kamchatka, the west coast of the Okhotsk Sea, and the Yukon River. A well-written and valuable narrative. This the copy of Richard W. Meade, U.S.N. with his bookplate to front pastedown and his signature "Richard W. Meade, Jr." to blank leaf preceding frontispiece. Rear Admiral Meade (1837-1897) saw distinguished service as an officer during the Civil War and later as Commander of the steamer Saginaw along the Alaskan coast in 1869-71. Steady promotions led to his appointment as rear admiral in 1892. Lot Amendments Condition: Lacking a portion of the folding map, which is laid in loose; lacking 1 plate, else quite clean and unworn. Item number: 174058
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