Alaska

[NAVIGATION & MARITIME -- ARCTIC RUSSIA & ALASKA].Biblio.com

Arctic pilot: the coast of Russia from Voriema or Jacob River in Europe to East Cape Bering Strait including off-lying islands. H.O. No. 137 Volume I; Summary of notices to mariners and other information for the years 1927 1928 and 1929. Affecting Hydrographic Office Publication No. 137 Arctic Pilot Vol. I. . . .

171959230Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1917; 1930. Two vols. 8vo. ix 1 4 364 pp.; 19 mimeograph leaves. With 2 large folding colour map. First vol. in black publisher’s buckram silver lettering stamped on front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight interior toning shelfwear 2nd vol. mimeographed typescript & stapled at gutter margin minor dustsoiling edgewear predation to lower fore-edge tear to last leaf of blank lower portion still a VG set. First editions of these coast pilot guides to Arctic waters during and after World War I issued about the time of the Russian Revolution and offered key navigational guides for Naval forces during the ill-fated White Russia Revolution and over 13000 troops in the Polar Bear Expedition. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions often drawing not only from Russian & British sources but also sailing reports from U.S. Navy vessels and those from merchant ships. The two maps serve as indexes to sailing charts to be ordered from the Hydrographic Office and keyed to sailing instructions within the coast pilots. The supplement is uncommon no copies located in Worldcat. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, hardcover

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis300,00 $US≈ 253,83 €

[Photography] [Alaska] [Indigenous Peoples]Biblio.com

REAL PHOTO POSTCARD OF THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT WRANGELL ALASKA

77191The Industrial School in Wrangell Alaska pictured in this circa 1905 real photo postcard was founded in 1877 by the first Presbyterian Church in Alaska. The purpose was to teach young native men of the area known as the Tlingit various American trades such as printing boatbuilding and construction. It closed in 1907. A new Wrangell Institute boarding school was operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1932 until 1975 at a site a few miles south of Wrangell. Children were forced to attend the school which for some was a traumatic experience because they were removed from their homes and families and forbidden from speaking their native language. The black-and-white card measures roughly 5 ½" x 3 ½" with a few light pencil markings on the verso. The front of the card is coated and the name of the school and location are etched in the negative. Overall in very good condition. unknown

Johnson Rare Books & Archives · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

[Science et Vie]Livre Rare Book

SCIENCE et VIE - n° 310 - juin 1943

1943LFA-126735003Une revue de 56 pages, format 165 x 245 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état

Lettre de France, L'Art de Vivre à la Française · Saint Victor de Cessieu, France7,00 €

[Terre Sauvage]Livre Rare Book

TERRE SAUVAGE

2013LFA-126731453N° 295 (Août 2013) : 98 pages, format 220 x 285 mm, illustré, broché, bon état

Lettre de France, L'Art de Vivre à la Française · Saint Victor de Cessieu, France4,00 €

[THE ALASKA LINE]Biblio.com

THIS IS ALASKA

194443828Seattle: Frank McCaffrey n.d. 1944. 1944. 10" x 7 5/8" in pictorial wrappers. 28 pp. including wrappers. Illustrations. Map. Information on all one might expect to see and do when visiting Alaska. Offers extensive information on Alaska's history and sites to include its glaciers Indians totems mining midnight sun etc. followed by information on a variety of tours and cruises to include Golden Belt Line Tours Yukon River Circle Tours Copper River - Keystone Canyon Tours the Inside Passage and Totemland Tours Prince William Sound Cruises etc. Also offers basic information about an Alaska cruise to include when to visit what to wear what about mail etc. Black and white photographs throughout to include Sitka Edgecumbe Childs Glacier Mt. McKinley individuals participating in various activities Valdez Skagway Wrangellvarious ships in the fleet etc. Inside rear wrapper is a color system map showing the routes of the various tours offered. Covers and spine worn and with splits to head and toe of spine. Rear wrapper with travel agency sticker. Inside rear wrapper reinforced with tape. Still a nice presentation of all Alaska has to offer. Frank McCaffrey, n.d. [1944]. unknown

BUCKINGHAM BOOKS · États-Unis75,00 $US≈ 63,46 €

[Timbres Magazine]Livre Rare Book

TIMBRES MAGAZINE - L'OFFICIEL DE LA PHILATELIE n° 88 (Mars 2008)

2008LFA01817Revue mensuelle concernant la philatélie : environ 110 pages en couleurs, format 300 x 210 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs + fiches détachables

Lettre de France, L'Art de Vivre à la Française · Saint Victor de Cessieu, France4,00 €

[U S Department of the Interior, The Alaska Railroad]Biblio.com

Big Game Hunting Along the Alaska Railroad

1932142456Chicago: U. S. Department of the Interior 1932. 10pp. Square octavo. Colourfully illustrated paper wrappers with a map of the Alaska Railroad on the verso of the back wrapper. Heavily illustrated with black and white photos and drawings within the text. Fold line down the middle where it was folded to act as a pamphlet. Very mild edgewear to the wrappers otherwise a very good copy of this scarce piece of ephemera. A wonderfully produced little pamphlet promoting the Alaska Railroad and the central portion of Alaska as having the "choicest big game fields" in America. U. S. Department of the Interior unknown

Aquila Books · Canada275,00 $CA≈ 186,78 €

[WASHINGTON, ALASKA, MONTANA & IDAHO - NORTHERN PACIFIC].Biblio.com

Across the continent via the Northern Pacific: from the Lakes & Mississippi River to the Pacific Columbia River Puget Sound & Alaska.

189060273St. Paul MN: W.C. Riley Publisher Engraved by Charles Frey Franfurt Germany ca. 1890. Oblong 8vo. 9.75 x 6.25 in. 30 leaves unnumbered. sepia-tinted leporello accordion-style format. With 30 lithograph plates including 1 double-leaf plate w/ 2 birds-eye views of Minneapolis & St. Paul 1 birds-eye panoramic views of Northern Pacific train & Duluth Harbor many sepia-tinted views on remaining. Quarter-black cloth over elaborately decorated & embossed burgundy-coloured covers gilt lettering & decoration front cover minor scuffing edgewear small discrete paper repair to a few hinges hinge still a VG copy. Third edition â€œ30000â€ of this nicely executed souvenir book issued in the same size as the popular â€œBoudoirâ€ albumen souvenir photos for the Northern Pacific as its route opened through the Northern United States railroad lands for development across the West and expanding upon the much smaller original 1888 â€œNorthern Pacific Tour.â€ These lithographs were created by hand-drawn images from photographs and printed using the Glaser/Frey lithographic process using five or more stones to lay down a series of separate shades offering a varnished look. The NP RR souvenir view book includes images of Dakota wheat fields Custer Battlefield monument Crow Indians at Yellowstone Montana cattle roundups and gold mining along the Columbia River with birds-eye views of Butte & Helena MT Spokane WA and salmon fishwheel as well as early birds-eye view of Portland OR. Views of Alaska include Sitka Juneau Totem Poles on Wrangel Island and the glaciers. The piece concludes with birds-eye view of San Francisco. W.C. Riley Publisher, [Engraved by Charles Frey, Franfurt, Germany], hardcover

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis175,00 $US≈ 148,07 €

[Western Americana – Alaska – Klondike Gold Rush – Lithography] Teller, Robert [lithographer]; Metz, TheoBiblio.com

The Klondike March of the Gold Miners

1897Cat358New York: Willis Woodward & Co 1897. Folio sheet music complete. Illustrated color lithograph title page by Robert Teller. Covers detached contents complete good with lithographed cover in particularly bright and attractive condition. Sheet music issued at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush capitalizing directly on the surge of public interest following the discoveries in the Yukon in 1896â€“1897. The lithographed title page signed in style by Robert Teller shows a dramatic scene of prospectors working a gold deposit in the mountains with two miners in the foreground bent over a pile of freshly uncovered gold tools in hand. Theodore August Metz was a German-born musician trained on violin in Hanover who emigrated to the United States and worked various trades before establishing himself as a bandleader and composer in Chicagoâ€™s late 19th-century popular music scene. He achieved national prominence with â€œThereâ€™ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonightâ€ 1896â€“97 a widely performed marching tune that became especially popular during the Spanish-American War and in minstrel and touring band repertories. OCLC 726910235 locating a single copy at the Levy Collection. Willis Woodward & Co unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis375,00 $US≈ 317,29 €

[Western Photographica]. [Alaska]Biblio.com

Handsome Collection of Vernacular Images Featuring the Copper River Region of Alaska at the Turn of the 20th Century

19053538Copper River Valley Ak 1905. Very good. Forty-five printing-out paper photographs between 3.25 x 3.25 and 4 x 6 inches plus three real photo postcards. Minor wear a few creases occasional light soiling. A unique collection of almost fifty images capturing scenes in and around Copper Center in the Copper River Valley of Alaska in the years after gold was first found there in 1898. The images document pioneers panning for gold running dog sled teams posed in front of early wooden buildings in a bleak snow-covered landscape and more as well as capturing shots of a riverside mill a wooden bridge scenery on the Copper River and the majesty of the surrounding forests. A handful of the images capture pioneer women and children posed for the camera in winter clothing worn to combat the bitter Alaskan winters. One image pictures three men and two dogs standing outside the Hotel Holman an early Copper Center roadhouse that began in a tent but was opened in a wooden structure in 1899; the present image captures the post-1899 wooden structure. The Holman Hotel was established in July 1898 by Copper Center's first resident Andrew Holman in order to provide shelter for prospectors on their way to the Klondike gold fields. Copper Center is located northeast of Anchorage and served as a brief but important way station for gold prospectors in southeastern Alaska; one image here apparently pictures the early riverside settlement or is perhaps an early view of Anchorage. A rare view of Alaskan life in an uncommonly-seen settlement during the first decade of the 20th century. unknown

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis3 250,00 $US≈ 2 749,83 €

[White Pass and Alaska]Biblio.com

The Alaskan Tourist

1905144857Skagway Alaska: Edw. H. Mitchell for Case & Draper ca. 1905. Oblong 12mo 22 X 15 cm. Illustrated with 16 tinted plates from photos including scenes of Skagway Summit of White Pass Lawton Glacier and Totem Poles at Sitka. Original black wrappers with white lettering on front cover and brown tie strings on spine. Minor chips to front edge of covers. A very good copy with clean and bright photos. Not in Tourville or Kurutz. For some reason seems very scarce. 1905 Edw. H. Mitchell, for Case & Draper unknown

Aquila Books · Canada200,00 $CA≈ 135,84 €

[White Pass and Alaska]Biblio.com

The Alaskan Tourist.

122173Skagway Alaska: Edw. H. Mitchell for Case & Draper. Softcover. very good. 1st Edition. unpaginated. Oblong 12mo 22 X 15 cm. Illustrated with 16 tinted plates from photos including scences of Skagway Summit of White Pass Lawton Glacier and Totem Poles at Sitka. Original black wrappers with white letterng on front cover and brown tie strings on spine. Minor chips to front edge of covers. A very good copy with clean and bright photos. very good Not in Tourville or Kurutz. Seems very scarce. Probably considered more of a Skagway item based on the photos. Edw. H. Mitchell, for Case & Draper paperback

Aquila Books · Canada200,00 $CA≈ 135,84 €

[Wyoming]. [Alaska]. Platt, William ShermanBiblio.com

Collection of Eight Manuscript Letters from a Young Man Working in Wyoming and Alaska in the Early-20th Century

19224725Alcova Wy.; Gulham and Achorage Ak 1922. Very good. Eight autograph letters signed totaling approximately 32pp. All in original transmittal envelopes. Old mailing folds minor wear. A small archive of letters documenting brief bouts of time in the life of a young Massachusetts man working in Wyoming and Alaska in the years during and just after World War I. William Sherman Platt 1896-1969 was born in Troy New York. Throughout his life he worked as a shipper at a lumber yard and eventually as the manager and then proprietor of a coal company by 1950. He served in the military during the latter portion of the First World War but apparently did not serve in Europe. Later at the age of 46 he filled out a draft card for World War II but it is unclear whether he served during the war likely not. The present collection of his letters document two brief snapshots of Platt's life as a young man from about ages eighteen to twenty-six. Platt wrote his earliest five letters from Gate Ranch in Wyoming to his parents back in Leominster Massachusetts. Platt's earliest letter from Wyoming dated July 4 1914 includes his initial reaction to the place and a stark appraisal of the locals: "I think I will enjoy things here very much indeed when I get accustomed to the place & the people. They are for the most part ignorant animals but they all mean well." In his second letter Platt complains about the slowness of the mail then offers an appraisal of the food in Wyoming: "The food is plain but well cooked and palatable and there is always plenty of it." In his third letter Platt describes the road work he was performing in and around Alcova: "Last week myself and two other fellows went down toward Alcova fixing the road. We were fixing up an old wood road for Mr. Schoolmaker to use as an auto road We camped out cooking out or meals and sleeping in our tents. It was very interesting." He describes some of his other work in his penultimate letter from Wyoming on July 30: "You want to know what I am doing. Well I am working. So far I have worked at carpentering surveying irragating sic road building and fence repairing beside hoeing weeds and helping a little with the chores once in a while. I don't know what I may strike yet. I am very busy but it is not what you would call distinctively Western work. I might do it anywhere. Still it is all right." He then provides another impression of the locals in Wyoming: "I have more fun than a little listening to these fellows around here talk. They are mostly old American stock who think that they are as good as anybody and a little better. They have views on all conceivable subjects which they are glad to air on all occasions aided with a copious flow of profanity. They sure are some fun." Platt writes his last letter from Wyoming on August 2 and reports further on his activities reading helping the cook the food again and also discusses his prospects for college which he apparently meant to start soon. He prefers to attend Clark University in Worcester but also mentions staying on the ranch in Wyoming "to learn something about ranch work" until December and then heading home to Massachusetts after going to see San Francisco. Apparently Platt enlisted in the Marines sometime in 1917 as one of his letters is dated September 16 from that year while at Paris Island South Carolina. Platt details his training and "hard labor" in the military. He had apparently left the military for the timber industry in Alaska by 1920 as his final two letters emanate from Chitina Alaska in the Fall of 1920. Platt's first letter is dated October 5 1920 and describes his work in Alaska: "Since I wrote last I have been working in the woods steadily.so long as I stay here. Really the logging here is a joke. The timber is small scattered and almost all rotten at the butt. Today there were 7 of us in the woods and we only got 70 logs short ones at that 12 to 16 ft. I have been climbing the trees all the time and I guess that will be my regular job from now on. It is easy. Most of the limbs are dead and break off." He also describes the short working day his camping rituals his like for malamute dogs and their work eating caribou and more. The present collection also includes two letters from Platt's mother sent to him in Alaska reacting to his activities but largely reporting on events from home. Platt's second and last letter from Alaska dates from January 11 1922 from Anchorage when he writes a friend also named Bill. Platt spends about half of this letter detailing the opportunities for mining in Alaska and describes a trip into the Alaskan interior: "But there is all kinds of mining on all sides of it. For quartz why the Willow Creek District is about the best. There is probably a dozen outfits operating. There is also a few coal mines in operation some at Kenana Healey & Eska Creek and a few other smaller layouts in different places. Summer before last I took a trip in through the Interior but I found it very unsatisfactory. Very expensive to move and the wages wasn't over 5 or 6 dollars a day and board for labor." In addition to his own letters the present group includes a 1917 letter from Platt's grandmother asking him to stay away from the current "awful war" as well as four family letters from the late-19th century. A small but informative group of letters surrounding a young Massachusetts man adventuring in the American West and Alaska in his younger years. unknown

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

AA. VV.MareMagnum

Mineral resources of Alaska Report of progress of investigation in 1927

Bulletin 810 della collana United States Department of the Interior - Geological Survey, direttore: George Otis Smith. Opera di Philip S. Smith ed altri. Volume del 1930 in stato discreto, coperta in cartoncino, su piatto anteriore catalogazione bibliotecaria manoscritta, bordo poco sfregato, tracce di fioritura sparsa, pieghe, tagli leggermente bruniti, pagine in buono stato, cerniera stretta. Presenta I tavola fuori formato, ben piegata, in fondo al volume una busta fissata su controguardia contenente due tavole con cartine a colori, fuori formato,, ben piegate. Numero Pagine 174 USATO

Biblioteca di Babele · Tarquinia, IT6,80 €

AA.VV.MareMagnum

In mezzo ai ghiacci. Viaggi celebri al Polo Nordd di Sir John Franklin, Kane, Mac Clintock, Hayes, Hall, Tyson, Hegemann, Koldevey, Payer e Weyprecht, Nordenskjold e Nares narrati dai viaggiatori stessi. Con prefazione del Prof. G. Dalla Vedova Segretario della Societa' Geografica Italiana.

Cm. 30, bella legatura in tela rigida editoriale decorata a rilievo con scene animate e scritte in oro, pag. XVI, 646 (2). Manca la carta geografica della calotta polare. Con 343 incisioni nel testo, molte a piena pagina. Piacevolissima raccolta delle esplorazioni più celebri delle zone polari dal 1853 al 1879. Ottimo esemplare.

Studio bibliografico La Darsena di Leonelli Siro e C. s.a.s. · Modena, IT120,00 €

ABERCROMBIE, W. R.Livre Rare Book

Alaska. 1899. Copper river exploring expedition.

28796Washington, Government Printing Office 1900, 235x155mm, 169pages, editor's binding. Book in good condition.

Bouquinerie du Varis · Russy, Suisse50,00 CHF≈ 47,78 €

Abs, Jos. MAntiquariat.de

Der Kampf um unsere Schutzgebiete

192857681Unsere Kolonien einst und jetzt. Düsseldorf, Floeder, 1928. 4to. Mit 3 Karten u. 84 fotografischen Tafelabbildungen. 287 S. Or.-Lwd. [4 Warenabbildungen]

Antiquariat Jürgen Patzer · DE - Konstanz20,00 €

Adak, Alaska (U S Navy) (Ephemera)Biblio.com

Hammerhead Lodge Menu

A37467Adak AK: Hammer Head Lodge. Very Good. 0. Hardcover. This is a cardcover folder / menu with a decorated and stamped front cover. The interior contains two typed pages of menu items with prices under plastic holders. This menu is from circa 1955 at the Hammerhead Lodge which was the Naval Officer's mess on Adak Island Alaska. "On 1 July 1950 the Air Force transferred Davis AFB to the United States Navy who established an anti-submarine warfare base there. Adak was most recently run by the U. S. Navy as a deployment base for P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft primarily to conduct antisubmarine warfare operations against submarines and surveillance of naval surface vessels of the former Soviet Union. The Naval Air Facility was also reported to be used as a refueling stop for U-2 Dragon Lady ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft. By the 1980s there were over 6000 Navy personnel on the islands. With the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s NAS Adak's operational viability as a front-line military installation began to wane and in the mid-1990s a decision was made by the federal government to cease military flight operations there under the military's Base Realignment and Closure Program BRAC. On 31 March 1997 the Navy closed Adak Naval Air Facility. The lowering of the flag for the last time ended an era that began of 31 August 1942 when U. S. Forces landed on the Aleutian Island and established an advance base there for operations against the Japanese on Kiska and Attu Islands. The Navy left behind a contingent of 30 Navy personnel and 200 civilian contractors to maintain facilities keep the runway open and begin an environmental cleanup." . Hammer Head Lodge hardcover

S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB) · États-Unis65,00 $US≈ 55,00 €

Akasofu, S. I.MareMagnum

Aurora Borealis : The Amazing Northern Lights (Alaska Geographic Ser. Vol. 6 No. 2)

95 pages. Profusely illustrated in both colour and black and white. Written by one of the world's authorities on auroras, a professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska. "In these pages you will be introduced to the history of auroral science and the development of our understanding of the phenomenon, and we'll explain, in layman's language, what we now know about how the aurora works. Finally, the reasons for auroral study today will be outlined, with particular emphasis on its great relevance to our technological future." - from the introduction. Unmarked. Average wear. Six inch crease to lower corner of illustrated front cover. Book

RareNonFiction.com · Ladysmith, CA49,95 €

ALASKA - ABERCROMBIE, W.R.Livre Rare Book

Alaska. 1899. Copper River Exploring Expedition.

190028458Washington, Government Printing Office, 1900. Orig. full cloth. Light discolouring to back. 169 pp., 168 photographic plates and 1 large folded map.

Herman H. J. Lynge & Son · Copenhagen, Danemark1 000,00 DKK≈ 134,30 €

AlaskaLivre Rare Book

Bronze Years

CD11680Castle Distribution CD dans un parfait état Alaska Bronze Years Label: Essential! Records ESMCD 889 Format: CD, Compilation Pays: UK Sortie: 2000 Genre: Rock Style: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock

Livre au trésor · Authon-du-perche, France24,00 €

ALASKA - U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS.Livre Rare Book

Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska.

190054584Washington, Governemnt Printing Office, 1900. Large 4to. Orig. red full cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine dusty. VII,856 pp., textillustrations, 33 plates and 27 folded maps. Internally clean and fine.

Herman H. J. Lynge & Son · Copenhagen, Danemark2 650,00 DKK≈ 355,90 €

AlaskaABAA

1954 Telephone Directory. Seward Alaska. Owned and Operated by Alaska Telephone Corporation cover title

19542016Seward 1954. Near fine. 32pp. Original green printed wrappers stapled. An ephemeral telephone directory for the city of Seward Alaska population around 2000 people. With combined retail and personal listings the text also includes advertisements for local businesses including an Avon lady. unknown books

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis125,00 $US≈ 105,76 €

AlaskaABAA

1960 Real Photo Postcard of Maxine Cothern Fairbanks Winter Carnival Queen First Miss Alaska to go to Atlantic City

196020114Pomona California: Frashers Photo 1960. A glossy real photo postcard of the crowned happy beauty contest winner seated on her throne of ice; approx. 3 1/2"" x 5 1/2" size; with photographic studio name of Frashers Photo of Pomona California and identifiers on front no. F. 9099; postally unused; with some later pencil notes on back; light wear and in very good condition; an interesting beauty contest photograph from the Alaska entry at the middle part of the 20th century. Very Good. Frashers Photo unknown books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis20,00 $US≈ 16,92 €

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