By Muir, John

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. 8vo – 23.7cm. [xxxi], (1), 279pp. Appendix and Index. Color frontispiece with original tissue guard of the “Corwin”, 33 illustrations from photographs – some by Edward Curtis, and drawings. Publisher’s quarter-green cloth on green paper boards. Green cloth spine with brown label and titles in bright gilt. 550 copies of this large-paper, wide margin, un-cut edge edition were printed with 500 copies for sale — This being copy number 48. A clean copy with no prior ownership markings, pages clean with several uncut, hinges strong and un-cracked. A very nice complete copy in Near Fine condition. John Muir – A Reading Bibliography, #160; Arctic Bibliography 11838.

Muir’s account of the cruise of the USS “Corwin” during its search for the lost American Arctic exploration vessel Jeanette under the command of George Washington DeLong. Muir was onboard as a naturalist and correspondent for the San Francisco Daily Bulletin, and this book prints the letters that he wrote to the Bulletin during the more than five-month voyage, supplemented with notes from his daily diary, and the two scientific reports on botany and glaciation that he wrote for the government.

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