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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
by Collis, Septima M
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and rubbed, rear hinge cracked.
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About This Item
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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- Old Saratoga Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40173
- Title
- A Woman’s Trip to Alaska: Being an Account of a Voyage through the Inland Seas of the Sitkan Archipelago in 1890
- Author
- Collis, Septima M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and rubbed, rear hinge cracked.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1890
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ALASKA, 1890s Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Adventure; The American West; Alaska and the Arctic;
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About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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