Fine Books and Manuscripts

Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America - now Ceded to the United States - and in Various other Parts of the North Pacific. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869.8vo (221 x 130 mm). Frontispiece, folding map, numerous illustrations. (Some light marginal spotting.) Publsiher's brown pictorial cloth (spine ends lightly chipping, corners bumped, lower hinge starting). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A narrative on Whymper's travels which included Kamchatka, the west coast of the Okhotsk Sea, and the Yukon River.