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Elephant folio (17 x 18.5') Twenty-six maps, most of them double page; 25 are sectional, one is a full page index map. Some of the maps have notes on them signed by members of the commission in facsimile. New leather spine and corners, but retaining the original black pebble-grain cloth and gilt title. The title page has old marginal tape repairs, and lacks a small piece from a lower corner (no loss) else is very good; the maps themselves are in very good to fine condition. The title has a sticker indicating it is Senate Document 162, 58th Congress, 2d session. The purchase of Alaska by the U.S. began the border dispute, which was not resolved until 1903 by this Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. Leather renewed, as indicated above; original cloth has some wear, staining, and repairs, and the boards have a slight yawn, else the binding is very good.
Atlas of Award
Alaskan Boundary Tribunal
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1904.
Price: $500.00
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4to. 361pp. Illustrated with line drawings; two large folding maps in rear pocket; vocabulary tables. Two works bound as one as Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume I., under the general editorship of J. W. Powell Original black cloth boards, rebacked, with the original backstrip laid on. The spine gilt has dulled; one of the folding maps has a neat reinforcement on one of the folds; else this is a very good copy.
Tribes of the Extreme Northwest; and Tribes of Western Washington and North western Oregon
Dall, W. H., and Geo. Gibbs
Washington: GPO, 1877.
Price: $450.00
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First edition. 8vo. Illustrated throughout with photographs; color frontispiece; four maps. Original green ribbed cloth blocked in gilt; top edge gilt. Rubbing at the corners else a fine, bright copy.
The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon
Sheldon, Charles
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
Price: $450.00
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