Description: The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean by David Starr Jordan, Part 1, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, 249pp, cloth, 8 x 11", 8vo Fair condition. Wear and soiling to front and rear boards. Tips are bumped. Edges are scuffed. Title in gilt on spine; still legible. Hinges are cracked. Frontispiece opposite title page. No known marginalia. Toning, age-staining, and finger-staining throughout textblock. Binding is fragile. Illustrations throughout textblock. Please see photos. Please note that this listing is for part 1 only. Northern fur seals have been a staple food of native northeast Asian and Alaskan Inuit peoples for thousands of years, but numbers began to severely decline in the 17th and 18th centuries after Europeans arrived in Kamchatka and Alaska due to the accelerated fur trade. Restrictions were first placed on fur seal harvest on the Pribilof Islands by the Russians in 1834, but, after the U.S. purchased Alaska from the Russians in 1867, the U.S. Treasury was authorized to lease sealing privileges on the Probilofs, which were granted somewhat liberally to the Alaska Commercial Company. The fur seal population of the Probilofs reached a low of 216,000 in 1912. FORN-TUB-0057-BB-2408-JC1223
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Binding: Cloth
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: David Starr Jordan
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Topic: Ecology, Environment
Subject: Outdoor & Nature
Original/Facsimile: Original
