Author: GROSVENOR, Gilbert (editor)
Title: The National Geographic Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly -- January-June 1916 (Vol. XXIX)
Description: Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 1916. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy buckram with gilt spine lettering. xxix, 696pp; xvi, 626pp. Numerous illustrations (some color), large foldouts. Overall very good. Mild binding wear only, else tight and internally quite nice, with usual age toning to endpapers and first few leaves. The most discreet of -ex-library, with almost no markings. Nice bound volume of a half year's issues, with major articles that include William Joseph Showalter's "How the World Is Fed," Theodore Roosevelt's "How Old Is Man?," William Howard Taft's "Great Britain's Bread Upon the Waters: Canada and Her Other Daughters," Gilbert H. Grosvenor's "The Land of the Best," Hiram Bingham's "Further Explorations in the Land of the Incas" and Frederick V. Coville's "The Wild Blueberry Tamed." When's the last time you saw two U.S. presidents back to back?.

Keywords: Travel & Exploration


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