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Various Authors. Harriman Alaska Expeditio

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Various Authors. Harriman Alaska Expeditio
Various Authors. Harriman Alaska Expedition - 12 Volumes in 13. New York / City of Washington: Doubleday, Page & Company / Smithsonian Institute, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. In Good Condition. 1901-1914. Volumes 1-5, 8-14. Volumes 6 & 7 were never published. Authors include John Burroughs, John Muir, George Bird Grinnell. Photographers include Edward S. Curtis (photogravures). Color plates include heliotypes of birds by Louis Fuertes. Volumes I & II are first editions dated 1901, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co. The other volumes are published by the Smithsonian Institute, retaining the original Doubleday, Page & Co. title pages (except Volumes 14, parts 1 & 2 which were originally published at the Smithsonian). Volume 1 has been trimmed and in a library binding, others in original bindings with gilt illustration on front cover, top edges gilt. Bindings tight, 2 hinges cracked. Subjects include: Narrative, Glaciers & Natives, History, Geography & Resources, Glaciers and Glaciation, Geology & Paleontology, Crytogamic Botany, Insects, Crustaceans, Nemerteans & Bryozoans, Enchytraeids & Tubicolous Annelids, Land and Fresh Water Mollusks & Hydroids and a Monograph of the Shallow-Water Starfishes of the North Pacific Coast. Uncollated - sold as is.