12 volumes in 13. Edited by C. Hart Merriam. Various paginations. Profusely illustrated with photogravures, heliotypes, engravings, chromolithographs, maps, text figures, etc. 10x6¾, original green ribbed cloth stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. Volumes 8-11 in publisher's cloth jacket. First Editions.
Financed and organized by Edward H. Harriman, the expedition in the summer of 1899 brought a party of 25 scientists and others to coastal Southeastern and Southern Alaska, the Aleutians, and the Bering Sea. The entire series contains a total of 56 papers by various authors, notable among them John Muir, John Burroughs, George Bird Grinnell (authors of the first volume). Edward S. Curtis was one of the photographers in the group and the first 2 volumes contain 75 Curtis photogravures, as well as many by C. Hart Merriam and others. Color plates include many chromolithographs of birds by Louis Fuertes. Original book publication in 1902-05 was by Doubleday, Page & Co. from papers first published in the "Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences," 1900-02. In 1910 the Smithsonian Institution took over the series, including acquisition of the remainder of the Doubleday edition, which they re-issued with their own added title pages (dated 1910, though also retaining the Doubleday title pages) and bindings (of the same style and materials as Doubleday's, substituting the Smithsonian imprint and decorative device to the spines and front covers). In 1914 the Smithsonian published for the first time Vol. 14. Volumes 6 and 7 were never published. In this set volumes 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, and 12 bear only the Doubleday imprint; the other volumes are the Smithsonian re-issues of the Doubleday sheets (except vol. 14 which is an original publication of the Smithsonian). Arctic Bib. 6676.