Brooklyn: The Albertype Co 1905. Good. Twelve albertypes mounted on 12 leaves. Original pictorial wrappers string-tied. Wrappers chipped and worn at edges spine heavily; lightly soiled. Leaves brittle corners chipped with mounted images clean and crisp. Pictorial work with mounted images of Alaskan natives taken by the photography firm of Winter & Pond in Juneau. Lloyd Valentine Winter 1866-1945 and Edwin Percy Pond 1872-1943 arrived in Juneau in 1893 establishing a curio and photography shop there. By 1896 they were advertising a catalog of photographs for sale. They documented the local natives the Klondike Gold Rush and life in Alaska producing many popular images of the region. The company existed for over fifty years operating under original ownership until 1945 and finally closing in 1956. <br/><br/>The images here are all of local native tribes including several of the Tlingit people. The front cover image is "Eskimo Girl" and shows a young woman in a fur parka and mittens with a tattoo on her chin. Other images are: "Old Tlingit Woman"; "Native Basket Weavers"; "Old Tlingit Indian"; "Takon Indian Doctor" which shows a medicine man standing and brandishing rattles; "Old Tlingit Women"; "Schwatka a Yukon Guide"; "Chilkat Chiefs in Dancing Costume"; "Old Auk Indian"; "Potlatch Dancers" depicting a large group of dancers in native dress outside; "Auk Indian Doctor"; "Native Curio Sellers" which shows two young women wrapped in furs seated behind baskets of their wares; and "Old Eskimo Woman."<br/><br/>The Albertype Company of Brooklyn produced many such handsome viewbooks and the present work is in line with their style and quality of publication. We locate copies in OCLC at fewer than ten institutions. The Albertype Co unknown books
Washington Government Printing Office 1900. Orig. full cloth. Light discolouring to back. 169 pp. 168 photographic plates and 1 large folded map. <br/><br/><em>First edition. </em> hardcover
Alaska c 1890. Undetermined. near fine. Three card mouted 19th century albumen photorgraphs of eskimo from the Kotzebue Sound area of Northwestern Alaska. The images are mounted on black bevel mounts with grey backs 17.5 X 25 CM with the images being 11 X 19.5 cm. The condititon of the photos is excellent with good rich tones and little fading. All are captioned as above in an old hand. Two of the images were taken on the deck of a ship with the third undetermined. near fine Three very attractive images. We were unable to determine who the photographer is but the quality is so good that further research may yet results. 1890 unknown
Early 1900s or slightly later. An evocative group of photographs depicting daily life and seasonal migration among the Iñupiat people. The images are taken around time of the Nome Gold Rush 1899 to 1908 a period that brought a massive influx of prospectors and drastically altered the region's demographics. Nome gained worldwide attention during the gold rush and in its aftermath the Iñupiat people underwent profound cultural and environmental shifts. Increased contact with outsiders the rise of wage labour and the introduction of Western goods by miners missionaries and teachers led to a transition from a semi-nomadic lifestyle to life in permanent villages. After the boom ended Nome's population sharply declined falling from an estimated 20000 in the early 1900s to fewer than 1500 by the 1930s. The photographer George R. King 1866-1951 was widely published with his work appearing in Sierra Club publications and in National Geographic including the 1919 feature Eskimo Life. Despite his visibility little is known about his career. Mautz lists him simply as a photographer from Boston who recorded claims on the Seward Peninsula in 1907 p. 47. King's photographs together with those of Frank H. Nowell the Lomen Brothers and others provide an important visual record during a period of rapid change. One of the images was published in The New America and the Far East 1907-10 with the photographer unidentified. Five gelatin silver prints from 182 x 234 to 197 x 248 mm all with pencillings on verso three with photographer's ink stamp on verso. Two a little yellowed a few small marginal chips tears or creasing minor surface abrasions: a very good collection. Carl Mautz Biographies of Western Photographers 2018. unknown
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1885. First edition of the official United States government publication documenting the American contribution to the First International Polar Year of 1882 and 1883. The expedition departed San Francisco in July 1881 and established a long-term observing station near Point Barrow which remained in operation until 1883. The report records the practical realities of Arctic fieldwork including coastal and inland travel by sledge methods of construction and survival in polar conditions and the use of permafrost for storage. It also documents notable events of the expedition among them the loss of the whaling vessel North Star to the ice. The folding map illustrates the surveyed coastline and inland routes explored during the expedition. Quarto. Colour frontispiece 2 chromolithograph plates 10 photogravure plates lithograph plate 7 wood engraved plates 5 charts folding map. Original black cloth spine lettered in gilt boards ruled in blind. Bookplate of "Karl A. Pember". Ownership inscription of "James Moffitt" in black ink to front free endpaper. Spine toned with spot of wear gilt faded a couple of corners worn faint marks to covers front joint starting but firm minor foxing. A very good copy. Arctic Bibliography 7747 and 14292 for the Narrative; Casey Wood p. 530. hardcover
Washington Governemnt Printing Office 1900. Large 4to. Orig. red full cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine dusty. VII856 pp. textillustrations 33 plates and 27 folded maps. Internally clean and fine. hardcover
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xvii 739 with index. Bound in red buckram over heavy boards gilt lettering on spine. 10.25" x 7". Deaccessioned from a southern collegiate library: stamp on upper and lower edges shadow of pocket removed from rear pastedown slight trace of shelf label otherwise clean and sound. Contains 5040 entries. G.K. Hall & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040860 ISBN : 0816110638 9780816110636
Minnesota: Walter's Publishing Company. Edition Not Stated . Spiral Bound. Good. Compiled in Anchorage Alaska. Notice on second page stating the airlines is not involved. Handling to cover's first page loose. <br/> <br/> Walter's Publishing Company unknown
Seattle 1902. First. hardcover. good. Many photo illustrations by E. A. Hegg. 126pp. Oblong 4to original tan cloth spine rebacked in new black cloth covers soiled front flyleaf and some margins of plates lightly soiled upper right corners of plates creased inner hinge strengthened. Seattle 1902. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Entire text is published photo illustrations of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. There is one folding panorama of Dawson Yukon Territory. The images are bright.<br/> <br/> unknown
Seattle 1902. First. hardcover. good. Many photo illustrations by E. A. Hegg. 126pp. Oblong 4to original tan cloth spine rebacked in new black cloth covers soiled front flyleaf and some margins of plates lightly soiled upper right corners of plates creased inner hinge strengthened. Seattle 1902. First Edition.<br/><br/> Entire text is published photo illustrations of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. There is one folding panorama of Dawson Yukon Territory. The images are bright.<br/><br/> unknown books
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A Marko Delacroix 10th Year Anniversary Special Edition Omnibus Prey and Blood Bound books 1&2. paperback
Bookseller reference : ria9798307960158_inp ISBN : 9798307960158 9798307960
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