Whymper, Frederick

Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska

London John Murray 1868, 1st Edition. Hardcover Fine. 1868, 1st Edition. (Hardcover) xix,[1],331pp. + 32pp (publisher's catalogue dated April, 1868). Fine. Octavo. Wood-cut plates and illustrations in text and folding map (at end). Original gilt lettered and decorated blindstamped reddish brown cloth with coated black endpapers, uncut; scattered light foxing to title page and frontispiece, preliminary leaves, and catalogue at end. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown. An attractive crisp, clean copy, scarce thus. A.B. 19424. "The author was a member of the Western Union Telegraph Co. Expedition ... Traveled in Kamchatka and on the west coast of the Okhotsk Sea; later made journeys up and down the Yukon River from the Norton Sound region. He gives here accounts of his journeys; descriptions of the Chukchis and the Koyukon Indians; historical notes on the region ...". First edition and quite scarce - the U.S. Edition was not published until 1869.

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