JORDAN, DAVID STARR; HENRY WOOD ELLIOTT; WASHBURN MAYNARD; SHELDON JACKSON; WILLIAM GOUVERNEUR MORRIS; IVAN PETROFF; CHARLES HASKINS TOWNSEND; FREDERICK WILLIAM TRUE; JOHN BRICE; LEONHARD STEJNEGER

Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska

Washington (DC), Government Printing Office, 1898. First edition. 4 volume set, original dark brown cloth, octavos, pp v, 513; v, 477; v, 727; v, 722. Profusely illustrated with: Vol 1 - 5 b/w photo plates (1 folding), 2 folding lithograph charts; Vol 2 - not illustrated; Vol 3 - 77 b/w plates from drawings (most are double-page), 23 b/w photo plates, 15 chromolitho maps (most are double-page), large folding map printed in colors; Vol 4 - 10 b/w plates after drawings, 92 b/w photo plates (many with 2 or more images), 26 large folding maps printed in colors, 6 double-page maps printed in colors, 8 chromolithographs of native peoples, 4 charts. All volumes bear the ink stamp (liberally applied) of Alaskiana collector Byrdie McNeill, Vol. 4 also has the ink stamp of "Blaine Library" on endpapers (no other library markings), 1st 3 volumes with earlier ownership inscription. Covers of all volumes are clean and show only moderate wear, contents are very good with no tears, foxing, markings or other problems to text or plates. Published by order of the House of Representatives in an edition of 3000 copies (750 for the Senate, 1500 for the House, and 750 for the Treasury and other departments), this massive works collects many earlier reports, with appendices updating or correcting previous findings where necessary. The work explores much more than seals and salmon, with much information about other animals, as well as the condition of Russian immigrants and native peoples, education, customs and beliefs, child labor, slavery, etc. Previous owner's 1900 inscription indicates the books were received from the Hon. J. C. Burrows (1837-1915) Republican Congressman and Senator from Michigan.

-- Chanticleer Books

Book number: 14376

Catalogue: California and the West

Keywords: Alaska

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD AND THOMAS BARBOUR .

A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Third Edition.

Cambridge, MA:, Harvard Univ. Press,, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. 3rd edition, Burgundy cloth with gilt title. xiv, 183 pages. This book is in very good shape overall; binding lightly rubbed along edges, faint dampmark on rear board, former owner's name on front free endpaper, but otherwise clean & bright internally with a strong binding.

-- The Bookshop, Inc.

Book number: 236209

Catalogue: NATURE

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD.

Five papers on Herpetology.

Proc. U.S. National Museum, Washington 1892-1926. Preliminary description of a new genus and species of blind cave salamander from North America, pp115-117, plate. A new tree toad from Costa Rica, pp817-818. Descriptions of three new batrachians from Costa Rica and Panama, pp285-288. Identity of Hallowell's snake genera Megalops and Aepidea, 3p. A new salamander from North Carolina, pp559-562, 5 figures.

-- Country Books

Book number: 11374

Catalogue: Herpetology, Natural-history

Keywords: Toads Salamander

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD AND DAVID STARR JORDAN.

The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean. The Asiatic Fur-Seal Islands and Fur-Seal Industry.

Government Printing Office:. 1898. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This book is Part 4 to the Report Of the Fur-Seal Investigation in 1896- 1987 by David Starr Jordan, and published by the Government Printing Office, 384 pages, profusely illlustrated with b&w photographs and 26 folded maps. "The following treatise is based upon observations gathered during four different visits to the Commander Islands, off the coast of Kamchatka, the first undertaken in 1882 -83, during the palmist days of fur-seal indsutry, the second during 1895, as a special attache of the United States Fish Commission to study the recent declin and to compare the conditions as I knew them thirteen years ago with those of the present day.My third trip took place in 1896, by direction of the President, pursuant to the joint resolution of Congress approved June 8, 1896, and the fourth one in 1897 under the same auspices." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, blue cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine. Very Good/Not Issued With A Dust Jacket.

-- Pascale's Books

Book number: 021319

Keywords: Astic Fur Seal, Fur-Seal Industry, Fur-Trade, Leonhard Stejneger, Russian Fur-Seal Islands, Seals, Fur Trade, Seal Fur, Commander Islands, Sealing

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD

Georg Wilhelm Steller: the Pioneer of Alaskan Natural History.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936. First edition Pp. xxiv, 623, color frontis, 29 plates, 1 color map. Publisher's red ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, 8vo. Steller was the naturalist for Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition which explored Alaska in 1741. He discovered many new species including two which bear his name ‘Steller's Seacow' and ‘Steller's Jay'. A bright copy in fine condition..

-- Natural History Books

Book number: 2604

Catalogue: Naturalist's Travels, Exploration and Biography

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD. INTRODUCTION BY MASAFUMI MATSUI.

Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory. A Volume in Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology Series.

St. Louis:, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles,, 1996.. Hardcover. 0916984389. A Fine Hardback in a Fine Dust Jacket. Facsimile Reprint of the 1907 Original Edition with a New Introduction By Masafumi Matsui. 8vo. 577 Pp. + List of Publications. Fine.

-- By The Book, LC

Book number: 25497

Keywords: Reptiles-Amphibians 0916984389

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD.

A New Salamander from Nicaragua.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1907.. Paperback. pp 465-466, wrps.

-- Libros Latinos

Book number: 87504

Keywords: Nicaragua Nicaraguan Central America Fauna Natural History

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD.

The Poisonous Snakes of North America.

An extract from the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1893. FIRST EDITION. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1895, (151) pp., 19 full page plates in b&w (on separate pages), 70 text figures in b&w. A fine copy.

-- Books on the Orient

Book number: 011744

Keywords: Spain, Portugal, Americas

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD.

Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. Batrachians and Reptiles.

Proc. US Nat. Mus. 45:541-547. # 1991. GPO 1913. (Wraps), good condition.

-- Significant Books

Book number: NMBL10634

Catalogue: Biology