Research Catalog

Title

Vitus Bering and James Cook discover Alaska and Hawaii. Written by Earl Schenck Miers, with maps of the voyages by Enrico Arno and with wood engravings by Stefan Martin, drawn from original sources.

Author

Miers, Earl Schenck, 1910-1972.

Publication

Newark, Del., Published for the friends of the Curtis Paper Company, 1960.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Arno, Enrico.
• Martin, Stefan.
• Curtis Paper Company.

Description

16 l. illus. 2 col. fold. maps.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• Arctic sun and tropic moon.
• Alaska and Hawaii.

Subjects

• Hawaii > Discovery and exploration
• Alaska > Description and travel
• Cook, James, 1728-1779
• Bering, Vitus Jonassen, 1681-1741
• Hawaii > Description and travel
• Hawaii > Discovery
• Alaska > Discovery and exploration

Note

• Cover title: Arctic sun and tropic moon.
• "Seventh ... in a series of Americaana commissioned annually by the Curtis Paper Company."
• "Designed by Joseph Blumenthal ... printed at The Spiral Press, New York."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography, recto of leaf 16.

Call Number

*KP (Spiral) (Miers, E. S. Vitus Bering and James Cook discover Alaska and Hawaii)

LCCN

82187484 //r932

OCLC

1899039

Author

Miers, Earl Schenck, 1910-1972.

Title

Vitus Bering and James Cook discover Alaska and Hawaii. Written by Earl Schenck Miers, with maps of the voyages by Enrico Arno and with wood engravings by Stefan Martin, drawn from original sources.

Imprint

Newark, Del., Published for the friends of the Curtis Paper Company, 1960.

Bibliography

Bibliography, recto of leaf 16.

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Added Author

Arno, Enrico.

Martin, Stefan.

Curtis Paper Company.

Added Title

Arctic sun and tropic moon.

Alaska and Hawaii.

Research Call Number

*KP (Spiral) (Miers, E. S. Vitus Bering and James Cook discover Alaska and Hawaii)