Title: Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America - Now Ceded to the United States - and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific Author: Whymper, Frederick Place: London Publisher: Murray Date: 1868 Description: xix, [1], 331 pp. Woodcut plates including frontispiece; folding map at rear. (8vo) red morocco, gilt cover vignette, gilt spine, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. First Edition. Prize binding from the Kings College, London awarded in 1896, per the bookplate on the front pastedown. Frederick Whymper was a member of the Russian-American Overland Telegraph Expedition of 1865-66 and his travels included Kamchatka, the west coast of the Okhotsk Sea, and the Yukon River. A well-written and valuable narrative. Lot Amendments Condition: Joints and edges moderately rubbed; very short closed stub tear to folding map; else near fine. Item number: 208218
Title: Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America - Now Ceded to the United States - and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific Author: Whymper, Frederick Place: London Publisher: Murray Date: 1868 Description: xix, [1], 331 pp. Woodcut plates including frontispiece; folding map at rear. (8vo) red morocco, gilt cover vignette, gilt spine, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. First Edition. Prize binding from the Kings College, London awarded in 1896, per the bookplate on the front pastedown. Frederick Whymper was a member of the Russian-American Overland Telegraph Expedition of 1865-66 and his travels included Kamchatka, the west coast of the Okhotsk Sea, and the Yukon River. A well-written and valuable narrative. Lot Amendments Condition: Joints and edges moderately rubbed; very short closed stub tear to folding map; else near fine. Item number: 208218
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