THE FUR SEALS AND FUR-SEAL ISLANDS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. THE ASIATIC FUR-SEAL ISLANDS AND FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY.

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This book is Part 4 to the Report Of the Fur-Seal Investigation in 1896- 1987 by David Starr Jordan, and published by the Government Printing Office, 384 pages, profusely illlustrated with b&w photographs and 26 folded maps. "The following treatise is based upon observations gathered during four different visits to the Commander Islands, off the coast of Kamchatka, the first undertaken in 1882 -83, during the palmist days of fur-seal indsutry, the second during 1895, as a special attache of the United States Fish Commission to study the recent declin and to compare the conditions as I knew them thirteen years ago with those of the present day.My third trip took place in 1896, by direction of the President, pursuant to the joint resolution of Congress approved June 8, 1896, and the fourth one in 1897 under the same auspices." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, blue cloth covers, lettering is bright on the spine. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. N° de ref. del artículo 021319

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