The Wonders of Alaska, Illustrated

San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1890. [TRAVEL] [ILLUSTRATED] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE]. 8vo; 152pp; aquatint fp + [25] b&w half-tone photographic illustrations + 8 maps + [6] illustrations of steamships and their blueprints; green pictorial cloth over board, illustration of the Muir Glacier and decorative lettering on front, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; floral eps, heraldic bookplate of Florence Bailey Swift (1854-1915) on front pastedown; scuffed corners and head and tail of spine; very good. An interesting travel book covering Alaska from its earliest history, cities, the inland passage, glaciers, the people, totems and shamans, education, (truncated) animal life, resources, mirages, the Chinook jargon, and travel from San Francisco to Alaska on different routes. (Inventory #: 1953)