Clark, Charles Upson Editor (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. ***please read*** no marks on text - cover shows significant wear, small tears, and creasing - top edges are uncut - my shelf location 25-D-14*.

[1934]. (stiff paper covers) Very good. 391pp. Signed by the editor. Notes, bibliography, index. The pages are unopened. The spine is discolored and slightly cocked, and the yapped edges are worn. Text in French and English. Locale:. (Canada, Coureurs de Bois, Jesuits, Voyageurs).

Wraps. Condition: Good. Charles Upson Clark, Louise Coleman (Photographer) (illustrator). [8], 185-276, [and 12 pages of advertisements] Illustrations. Maps. Front cover has a date stamp, and notations/marks. Also on page. 223. Cover has some wear and soiling. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its The magazine is known for its thick square-bound glossy format with a yellow rectangular border and its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine's metamorphosis was engineered by its first full-time editor, Gilbert H. Grosvenor. One of Grosvenor's earliest legacies was the use of first-person narrative and straightforward, simple writing. By 1910 the magazine also was distinguished by the growing use of photographs and its cover had adopted the border of oak and laurel leaves, acorns and hemispheres that characterized it for the next six decades. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. This issue has articles on The Race for the South Pole, Romantiuc Spain by Charles Upson Clark (with 40 illustrations), The Glacier National Park by Guy Elliott Mitchell (with 6 illustrations), The Most Curious Craft Afloat by L. A. Bauer (with 31 illustrations), The Duke of the Abruzzi in the Himalayas (illustrations), In Valais by Louise Murray (with 6 illustrations), Scenes in Switzerland, and Dear Farming in the United States (illustrated) [abstracted from Farmers' Bulletin 330 by D. E. Lantz, U.S. Biological Survey. Charles Upson Clark (1875-1960) was a professor of history at Columbia University. He discovered the Barberini Codex, the earliest Aztec writings on herbal medicines extant. Throughout his life he was the author of many books on a variety of subjects. Among them was the history of West Indies by Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa translated into English,[2] and the modern history of Romania. He also collaborated with the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, where he held a directory of Classical Studies and Archaeology since 1910.Guy Elliott Mitchell was on the staff of the U.S. Geological Survey.L. A. Bauer was the Director of Department of Research in Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The Carnegie was a brigantine yacht, equipped as a research vessel, constructed almost entirely from wood and other non-magnetic materials to allow sensitive magnetic measurements to be taken for the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. She carried out a series of cruises from her launch in 1909 to her destruction by an onboard explosion while in port in 1929. She covered almost 300,000 miles (500,000 km) in her twenty years at sea.David E. Lantz was with the U.S. Biological Survey. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus.