The Harriman Alaska Expedition (Volumes 1 & 2 & 4)

Edward Henry Harriman; C Hart Merriam; John Muir; Edward S. Curtis; John Burroughs; George Bird Grinnell

New York : Doubleday, Page; Smithsonian Institution, 1901

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. <br>   Contents: v. 1. Narrative, glaciers, natives / by John Burroughs, John Muir and George Bird Grinnell; v. 2. History, geography, resources / by William H. Dall’ v. 4. Geology and paleontology / by B.K. Emerson. 

Refs: Arctic Bib 6676