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Title: Harriman Alaska series. Volumes I-V, VIII-XI, XIII, XIV Author: Various authors Place: Garden City (and) Washington, DC Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co. (and) Smithsonian Institutions Date: 1902-1914 Description: 11 volumes in 12 (of 12 volumes in 13, lacking Volume 12). Edited by C. Hart Merriam. Profusely illustrated with photogravures, heliotypes, engravings, chromolithographs, maps, text figures, etc. 10x6¾, original green ribbed cloth stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. Volumes 3, 4, & 11 in publisher's cloth jackets. First Editions. Financed and organized by Edward H. Harriman, the expedition in the summer of 1899 brought a party of 25 scientists and others to coastal Southeastern and Southern Alaska, the Aleutians, and the Bering Sea. The entire series contains a total of 56 papers by various authors, notable among them John Muir, John Burroughs, George Bird Grinnell (authors of the first volume). Edward S. Curtis was one of the photographers in the group and the first 2 volumes contain 75 Curtis photogravures, as well as many by C. Hart Merriam and others. Color plates include many chromolithographs of birds by Louis Fuertes. Original book publication in 1902-05 was by Doubleday, Page & Co. from papers first published in the "Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences," 1900-02. In 1910 the Smithsonian Institution took over the series, including acquisition of the remainder of the Doubleday edition, which they re-issued with their own added title pages (dated 1910, though also retaining the Doubleday title pages) and bindings (of the same style and materials as Doubleday's, substituting the Smithsonian imprint and decorative device to the spines and front covers). In 1914 the Smithsonian published for the first time Volume 14. Volumes 6 and 7 were never published. In this set volumes 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, and 9 bear only the Doubleday imprint; the other volumes are the Smithsonian re-issues of the Doubleday sheets (except Volume 14 which is an original publication of the Smithsonian). Arctic Bib. 6676. Lot Amendments Condition: Volumes 1 & 2 ex-library from the Sewickley (PA) Public Library from the collection of ornotholigist Bayard Christy, with bookplates; Volumes 5, 8, & 9 ex-library from the Free Library of Fayetteville, NY, with embossed stamp, call numbers on spines; Volume 11 ex-library from the Franklin Institute Library, with bookplate; Volume 14, Parts 1 & 2 with the bookplate of the Lowther Collection. Jackets a bit rough at edges; some general light wear to volumes; overall very good. Item number: 198360