Our Arctic Province: Alaska and the Seal Islands

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. Hinges just beginning to weaken, 4 inch closed tear to folding map, righthand portion of map split along seam, but map is complete. 1886 Hard Cover. xv, 465 pp. Fold-out map follows text, four maps and 48 plates in text. Elliott, a watercolor artist and environmentalist, also wrote the 1911 Hay-Elliott Fur Seal Treaty, the first international treaty on wildlife conservation. Arctic Bibliography 4545: "A comprehensive work for general readers, telling of the history, geography, peoples, and wildlife, particularly the seals, and (in less detail) the sea otters, sea lions, the morse (or walrus), etc.