Land of the Midnight Sun

 Harper & Brothers. New York. 
1882 2 Vols. 8vo 


 Good. Summer and Winter Journey Through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland. With folding map and 468 illustrations.
 Blue cloth bindings, 
 gilt and red pictorial spines & front covers.
Edges rubbed, top & bottom of spines chipped,  hinges have been repaired with cloth tape in front and cracked in the back. Library plate removed form the inside.
 D T Watson home
 for crippled children stamped in front.

$45.00


Our Arctic Province Alaska and the Seal Islands


Charles Scribner & Sons.
 New York. 1886 1st edition. 8vo 


 Good. Some wear., tear to map. illustrated by many drawings from nature and maps 473pages. 
 Original gilt/red pictorial cloth. puffin on the spine, numerous black and white in-text and
full page illustrations. in rear-one large fold-out map.
49 full-page illustrations in addition to 43 in text.
 First printing. 

$50.00


Trails and Tramps to Alaska and Newfoundland

G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 
 From The Knickerbocker Press, 1913. 8vo 


 Good. Inner hinge repaired. Original light olive-buff cloth, titled in gilt on spine and upper cover,  a photographic plate, showing a forest scene of a rabbit in deep snow. 330 pages, with "One Hundred and Forty-Seven Illustrations from Original Photographs"; "With three of the eight chapters on hunting bear and sheep in southeastern Alaska, Kodiak island, and the Kenai Peninsula.

 

$65.00


Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields 

Hardbound, Small 8vo, 528 pages.
A C Harris, No City, Around 1897. 8vo


Good. Folding color map shows gold fields, routes to the Klondike and distances 
"Containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; how to find gold; camp life at Klondike; practical instructions for fortune seekers, etc. etc., including a graphic description of the gold regions; land of wonders; immense mountains, rivers and plains; native inhabitants, etc. Including Mrs. Eli Gage's Experiences of a Year among the Yukon Mining Camps; Mrs. Schwatka's Recollections of her husband as the Alaskan Pathfinder; Prosaic Side of Gold Hunting, as seen by Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras" Photos and wood-engravings throughout. Two maps (one large color). Both maps very good. Popular book sold by subscription. 'Practical Instructions for Fortune-Seekers'. Name written in nice script inside dated 1897

$65.00


Spring On an Arctic Island 

 Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1956 Cloth. 
 First Edition.8vo  Blue cloth, 
331 pp, index, map endpapers.

 Good +/Good + Map endpapers. 16 B&W photos.
Katherine Schulman went on a scientific expedition
 of eight Americans to Bylot Island
450 miles north of the arctic circle. 
Full of strange and wonderful 
scientific and human information.

$12.00

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