CURTIS EDWARD S (1868 1952) A Souvenir of the Harriman Alask

Sale 2067 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 46,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 40,000

CURTIS, EDWARD S. (1868-1952)
"A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May-August, 1899, Cook Inlet to Bering Strait and the Return Voyage. Volumes I and II." Together, 2 (of 2) volumes. With 251 original photographs, comprising 141 prints in vol. I and 107 prints in vol. II; includes 109 photographs by Edward S. Curtis. Silver prints, 3x2 to 6x8 inches (7.6x5 to 15.3x20.3 cm.), with Curtis's inventory numbers and credit in the negative, each with printed captions on mount recto; offsetting. Most with single prints on each sheet; a few with one to 3 images per sheet. Oblong 4tos, gilt-pictorial leatherette (with the original gilt-lettered morocco binding housed in a custom-made slipcase); ties; the albums are housed in a contemporary brown cloth slipcase. 1899

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Originally in the collection of C. Hart Merriam; to Christopher Cardozo Inc.; to the current owner.