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. Hardcover. 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. Ill.: Edward Curtis. Fine, bright copies in Near Fine, complete dustwrappers and quite scarce in this condition .

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