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A Woman’s Trip to Alaska: Being an Account of a Voyage through the Inland Seas of the Sitkan Archipelago in 1890
de Collis, Septima M
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and rubbed, rear hinge cracked.
- Librería
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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NY: Cassell Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and rubbed, rear hinge . cracked.. 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth spine with gilt design of totem pole and blue cloth sides. Top edges gilt. xvi, 194pp. Folding frontispiece color folding panorama view of the facade of Muir Glacier, Alaska. Color map and 86 other illustrations by American Bank Note Company from Mrs. Collis’ photographs. Some illustrations are tinted in color. Introductory letter by General William T. Sherman. Septima Mary Levy Collis was the daughter of a Jewish Charleston planter who married Irish-American Civil War General C. H. T. Collis in 1861 and wrote of her conflicting loyalties in her 1889 memoir "A Woman's War Record". She set aside her summer at Saratoga plans in 1890 for a cross-country railroad trip from New York City to Tacoma, Washington. From there, she embarked on a steamship that sailed along the Pacific Coast, along British Columbia up into Alaska. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Librería
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 40173
- Título
- A Woman’s Trip to Alaska: Being an Account of a Voyage through the Inland Seas of the Sitkan Archipelago in 1890
- Autor
- Collis, Septima M
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and rubbed, rear hinge cracked.
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Cassell Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1890
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- ALASKA, 1890s Travel
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Travel and Adventure; The American West; Alaska and the Arctic;
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