xv, [1], 473 + [2] ad pp. Profusely illustrated, including 5 maps, 1 folding. 8½x5½, original pictorial cloth stamped in gilt & red. First Edition.

Account of Alaska and the Pribilof Islands by "Fur Seal Elliott," who first went north in 1872 to gather information for the Smithsonian Institution, and spent much of the rest of his life lobbying for the preservation of fur seals in Alaska. Arctic Bib. 4545; Smith 2800; Wickersham 2372.