Morris Ketchum Jesup: A Character Sketch

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo, green buckram cloth, gte, 247p, slip laid-in "With the compliments of Mrs. Morris K. Jesup". Includes chapter on the North Pole discovery. Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830 - 1908) was an American banker and philanthropist. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History and was known as a leading patron of scientific research and an eminent art collector, particularly towards his support for Frederic Edwin Church.