WHYMPER, FREDERICK - ALASKA.

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. With Map and Illustrations.

London, John Murray, 1868. Later full green cloth without title on back. Endpapers renewed. A stamp on htitle and verso of title. Engraved frontispiece. Halftitle. XIX,331 pp., 15 wood-engraved plates, many textillustr. and 1 large folded lithographed map (mounted on thin linen). Throughout some foxing and brownspots.

First edition. An American edition issued 1869. One of the first expeditions after Alaska was bought from Russia in 1867. It also includes description of Kamchatka.

Order-nr.: 29032