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[ARCTIC FUR TRADE]. Fur Seal Arbitration. Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration… between the United States of America and Great Britain… in 1892… Concerning the Jurisdictional Rights of the United States in the Waters of Bering Sea. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895.
16 volumes, 8vo. 28 plates, 51 maps (dampstain affecting vol. 8, some pages stuck together). Original black cloth, gilt-lettered spines (few hinges tender. Provenance: Kansas State Historical Society (bookplates); Barton Warren Evermann (1863-1932), note of bequest from this important American ichthyologist and former director of the California Academy of Sciences); California Academy of Sciences (bookplates); Martin L. Greene, a notable polar collector; his sale, Christie’s New York, 7 December 17, lot 333 (lot tag laid in).
FIRST EDITION. The fur seal arbitration proceedings restricted other nations from participating in pelagic sealing (the hunting of seals in open water) in Alaska and the North Pacific Islands, which had been purchased by the US from Russia in 1867. Wickersham 9363.