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DATE | COVER - FEATURES | LOW | HIGH | AVERAGE |
10/1888 | Vol. 1, #1; Introductory Address; Classification of Geographic Forms by Genesis; Geographic Methods in Geologic Investigation; Great Storm of March 11-14, 1888; Survey and Map of Massachusetts; Survey of the Coast | $3,505.00 | $11,300.00 | $7,350.00 |
4/1889 | Vol. 1, #2; Report--Geography of Life; Report--Geography of the Air; Report--Geography of the Land; Report--Geography of the Sea; Africa, Its Past and Future; NICARAGUA CANAL Map Supplement; SKETCH SHOWING LOCATION OF PANAMA RAIL ROAD, PANAMA CANAL, AND TRIBUTARY DRAINAGE Map Supplement | $2,135.00 | $5,100.00 | $3,470.33 |
7/1889 | Vol. 1, #3; International Literary Contest; Rivers and Valleys of Pennsylvania; Topographic Models | $1,850.00 | $4,800.00 | $3,003.40 |
10/1889 | Vol. 1, #4; Across Nicaragua with Transit and MachÈte; Irrigation in California; Trip to Panama and Darien; Round About Asheville; NORTH CAROLINA-TENNESSEE: ASHEVILLE SHEET Map Supplement | $1,300.00 | $4,000.00 | $2,136.25 |
1890 | Vol. 2, #1-5 | $140.00 | $550.00 | $342.67 |
1891-92 | Vol. 3, #1-5 | $120.00 | $420.00 | $287.33 |
1892-93 | Vol. 4, #1-5 | $144.00 | $605.00 | $299.67 |
1893 | Vol. 4, #6, #7 | $120.00 | $400.00 | $236.00 |
1893-94 | Vol. 5, #1-6 | $100.00 | $350.00 | $242.33 |
1894-95 | Vol. 6, #1-5 | $150.00 | $360.00 | $255.00 |
1894-95 | Vol. 6, #6-9 | $150.00 | $280.00 | $210.33 |
1896 | 1st year of 12 issues, Jan.-June | $80.00 | $270.00 | $175.00 |
1896 | July-December | $67.00 | $200.00 | $133.50 |
1897 | January, Feb., April-December | $80.00 | $183.00 | $131.50 |
1897 | March | $88.00 | $403.00 | $220.33 |
1898 | January, Feb., April-December | $81.00 | $265.00 | $164.25 |
1898 | March | $138.00 | $267.00 | $201.67 |
1899 | January, Feb., Aug.-December | $70.00 | $171.00 | $129.50 |
1899 | March, April, May | $120.00 | $375.00 | $238.67 |
1899 | June, July | $123.00 | $155.00 | $136.67 |
1900 | All months | $66.00 | $154.00 | $97.00 |
1901 | All months | $27.00 | $155.00 | $96.75 |
1902 | All months except August | $54.00 | $138.00 | $95.25 |
1902 | August | $78.00 | $173.00 | $127.50 |
1903 | All months | $54.00 | $118.00 | $88.50 |
1904 | January, March, May, November | $75.00 | $155.00 | $114.75 |
1904 | All other months | $65.00 | $125.00 | $89.33 |
1905 | January, February, March | $67.00 | $201.00 | $139.75 |
1905 | All other months | $33.00 | $71.00 | $55.50 |
1906 | All months | $25.00 | $60.00 | $44.67 |
1907 | All months | $21.00 | $60.00 | $41.67 |
1908 | All months | $25.00 | $71.00 | $43.00 |
Oct-09 | Discovery of the North Pole | $29.00 | $91.00 | $59.00 |
1909 | All other months | $25.00 | $46.00 | $34.00 |
Jun-10 | Costa Rica | $9.00 | $30.00 | $18.75 |
Dec-10 | December | $21.00 | $50.00 | $36.17 |
1910 | All months | $11.00 | $45.00 | $27.33 |
Jan-11 | Africa By Theodore Roosevelt | $29.50 | $52.00 | $39.83 |
Feb-11 | Panama Canal | $26.00 | $31.00 | $28.50 |
Mar-11 | Field Sports of Luzon, Philipines | $9.00 | $22.00 | $15.50 |
Apr-11 | Flying Birds; Pests & Parasites | $15.00 | $37.00 | $27.13 |
May-11 | Mexico, Lower California, Hunting Whales | $13.00 | $30.00 | $21.67 |
Jun-11 | Alaska, Canadian Rockies; British Columbia; Falls of the Zambesi; Mount McKinley | $12.00 | $29.00 | $20.50 |
Jul-11 | Reptiles; Indian Census; Mountain Climbing in the Alps; Bees | $16.50 | $51.00 | $34.17 |
Aug-11 | Borneo; Tunisia; Morocco | $18.00 | $31.00 | $23.50 |
Sep-11 | Troglodytes Of Southern Tunisia; Kaieteur Falls in British Guiana; Asia Minor Caves | $16.00 | $20.50 | $18.08 |
Oct-11 | Brazil; Old Wurttemberg Germany; Tahiti | $15.00 | $31.00 | $22.67 |
Nov-11 | Japan; China; Tripoli | $9.00 | $26.00 | $16.40 |
Dec-11 | Sahara; Kairowan; Szechuan, China; Making the Fur Seal Abundant | $19.00 | $44.00 | $31.75 |
Jan-12 | Sea-Kings of Crete (13 illustrations); The Quills of a Porcupine(5 ill); Ekoi-Southern Nigeria, Africa (8 illustrations); Turkey (39 illustrations); Greek Bronzes of Tunisia (10 illustrations). | $11.50 | $22.00 | $17.50 |
Feb-12 | Panama Canal w/color supplement; Ceylon (12 illustrations); Discovery of the South Pole w/map | $12.00 | $35.00 | $25.33 |
Mar-12 | Indo-China (63 illustrations & 2 maps); American Discoverers of the Antarctic Continent (illustrated). | $16.00 | $33.00 | $23.67 |
Apr-12 | Taal Volcano Eruption- Philippine Islands (40 illustrations & 5 maps); A Land of Giants & Pygmies-German East Africa (16 illustrations & map); Explorations in Peru | $11.00 | $29.00 | $21.13 |
May-12 | Kenai Penisula, Alaska (59 illustrations & 3 maps); Salmon (17 illustrations); Seed Farms in California-Santa Clara, San Juan (14 illustrations); Matterhorn supplement. | $10.00 | $31.00 | $18.50 |
Jun-12 | Our National Parks-Glacier, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia; High Cascades in Central Oregon (10 illustrations); Mt. Ranier (32 illustrations & map). | $14.00 | $30.00 | $21.00 |
Jul-12 | Panama (35 illustrations & map); Forest Fires (19 illustrations); Surveying the 141st Meridian - Boundary between Canada & Alaska (46 illustrations & map); Costa Rica (14 illustrations). | $6.00 | $31.00 | $17.75 |
Aug-12 | Ants (35 illustrations); The Gulf Stream (illustrated with maps & diagrams); Elephant Hunting in Equatorial Africa (30 illustrations); Zanzibar (11 illustrations). | $13.00 | $28.00 | $20.50 |
Sep-12 | Head Hunters of Northern Luzon (102 Illustrations & Map). | $8.00 | $22.00 | $13.92 |
Oct-12 | Canals of China (35 illustrations); Notes on Lhasa (60 illustrations) - Dalai Lama and the government of Tibet; China's Treasures (50 illustrations); Map Of China | $12.50 | $26.00 | $19.83 |
Nov-12 | Glimpses of the Russian Empire (51 color photos); The Land of Promise- Siberia (7 illustrations & map); Albania (16 illustrations); Bulgaria (13 illustrations); Macedonia (14 ill); Turkey (18 ill); Greece vs Turkey (7 illust & map) | $11.00 | $65.00 | $35.75 |
Dec-12 | Dalmatia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina (37 illustrations); Austria-Hungary (33 illustrations); Rumania (8 ill); Stefansson's Blond Eskimo (10 ill & map); Head-Hunters (Tailed People) of Nigeria (ill); Mt. Sinai (34 illustrations). | $17.00 | $33.00 | $24.00 |
Jan-13 | Beacons of the Sea: Lighting the coasts of the United States (67 illustrations and chart); Discovery of Cancer in Plants; From Jurusalem to Aleppo (30 illustrations); Honors to Amundsen and Peary. | $15.50 | $27.00 | $21.25 |
Feb-13 | Katmai Volcano in Alaska (57 illustrations); The changing map in the Balkans (27 illustrations); Countries of the Caribbean (23 illustrations) | $5.50 | $25.00 | $14.17 |
Mar-13 | Oysters: The World's Most Valuable Water Crop - 21 Illustrations; Greece and Montenegro - 24 Illustrations; Megaspelaeon, the Oldest Monastery in Greece - 11 llustrations; Mysterious Temples of the Jungle: The Prehistoric Ruins of Guatemala - 10 Illustrations; Saving the Ducks and Geese - 15 Illustrations; Wandering Islands in the Rio Grande - Illustrated | $5.50 | $16.00 | $11.33 |
Apr-13 | IN THE WONDERLAND OF PERU - The Work Accomplished by the Peruvian Expedition of 1912, Under the Auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society - 244 Illustrations | $15.00 | $48.00 | $32.00 |
May-13 | Panorama of Mount Robson Peak and Glaciers - 16 x 44 Inches; The Monarch of the Canadian Rockies - 12 Illustrations; Monsters of Our Back Yards - 39 Illustrations; The Lama's Motor Car - 32 Illustrations | $10.00 | $13.50 | $11.75 |
Jun-13 | Common Birds of Farm and Orchard (50 color illustrations); Chinese Pigeon Whistles; The Nation's Capital with 24 Illustratations | $8.00 | $15.00 | $12.00 |
Jul-13 | Wild Animals that Took Their Own Pictures by Day and by Night - 67 Illustrations; Untoured Burma - 17 Illustrations | $6.00 | $11.00 | $8.67 |
Aug-13 | The Ascent of Mont Blanc - 69 Illustrations; Gems of the Italian Lakes - 13 Illustrations | $3.00 | $13.00 | $7.00 |
Sep-13 | The Resurrection of Ancient Egypt - 46 Illustrations and Map; Reconstructing Egypt's History - 21 Illustrations; The Sacred Ibis Cemetery and Jackal Catacombs at Abydos - 7 Illustrations | $12.00 | $34.00 | $24.17 |
Oct-13 | Rumania and Her Ambitions - 34 Illustrations; An Island in the Sea of History - 46 Illustrations and Map; The Mysterious Life of the Common Eel - 3 Illustrations; Our Army versus a Bacillus - 2 Illustrations | $5.50 | $9.00 | $7.25 |
Nov-13 | The Phillipines | $8.00 | $29.00 | $16.67 |
Dec-13 | $7.00 | $10.00 | $8.50 | |
Jan-14 | Here and there in Northern Africa; The Mountain-climbing Troglodytes of Tunisia; The University at the Mosque of the Olive Tree, Tunis; Concerning the Camel and the Locust; In Tripoli of Barbary; The Oases of Northern Africa and the Sahara; (114 illustrations) | $9.00 | $17.00 | $12.67 |
Feb-14 | MAP OF ALASKA, in Three Colors; Battling with the Panama Slides; The Panama Canal - The Nation's Undeveloped Resources - Probable Effect of the Panama Canal on Commercial Geography; 16 Pages of Photogravure - Wayside Scenes in Europe | $33.00 | $78.00 | $55.00 |
Mar-14 | Village Life in the Holy Land, Encouraging birds around the home, Redeeming the Tropics; 21 Pages of 4-Color Work | $6.00 | $14.00 | $10.00 |
Apr-14 | Castles in the Air - With 67 Illustrations and Map (16 Pages in Photogravure) The New Home of the National Geographic Society - with Illustrations | $8.00 | $23.00 | $15.25 |
May-14 | Mexico & Mexicans, Birds of Town & Country, A Naturalist's Journey around Vera Cruz & Tampico, A Mexican Hacienda; Map of Mexico | $12.00 | $31.00 | $20.00 |
Jun-14 | Mysterious Chichen Itza of the Yucatan peninsula, Discovery & Invention by Alexander Graham Bell, US Coast Guard, Honors to Col. Goethals | $6.00 | $14.00 | $9.50 |
Jul-14 | Hunting (wildlife) w/the Lens, Beetles-Parasites-Moths, Conserving Beauty in Life, Mount Desert island, Books of Monsters (insects) | $4.00 | $10.00 | $7.00 |
Aug-14 | Grand Canyon, Cape Cod Canal, European Figures of population, armies, & navies; Map of Europe, with New Balkan Boundaries | $12.00 | $34.50 | $21.00 |
Sep-14 | $6.00 | $9.00 | $7.00 | |
Oct-14 | $4.00 | $12.00 | $8.00 | |
Nov-14 | Young Russia The Land of Unlimited Possibilties - w/100 Illustrations and 16 Pages of 4-Color Work | $13.00 | $22.00 | $17.50 |
Dec-14 | $5.00 | $9.00 | $6.67 | |
Jan-15 | Glimpses of Holland; The City of Jacqueline; Some Personal Experieinces with Earthquakes; From the War-path to the Plow; Partioned Poland | $15.00 | $35.00 | $24.00 |
Feb-15 | $7.00 | $13.00 | $10.00 | |
Mar-15 | Washington DC-It's Beginning, Its Growth and Its Future with 32 pages and 2 panoramas in 4 colors; Impressions of Palestine with 12 illustrations. | $5.00 | $7.00 | $6.00 |
Apr-15 | $5.50 | $5.50 | $5.50 | |
May-15 | Constantinople | $7.50 | $7.50 | $7.50 |
Jun-15 | $4.00 | $8.00 | $5.83 | |
Jul-15 | $4.50 | $9.00 | $6.83 | |
Aug-15 | Game Birds | $8.50 | $8.50 | $8.50 |
Sep-15 | London | $7.00 | $7.00 | $7.00 |
Oct-15 | Greece | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 |
Nov-15 | $6.00 | $9.00 | $7.67 | |
Dec-15 | Jerusalem locusts, Alaska new Railway, Nations Pride Epoch Inventions last 50 years | $7.00 | $13.00 | $10.00 |
Jan-16 | How the World is Fed - 16 pages photogravure | $6.00 | $8.00 | $7.00 |
Feb-16 | How old is Man? | $7.00 | $9.00 | $8.00 |
Mar-16 | Telephone | $4.50 | $9.00 | $6.17 |
Apr-16 | Land of the Best | $6.00 | $7.00 | $6.50 |
May-16 | Land of the Incas w/map | $6.00 | $9.00 | $7.50 |
Jun-16 | Wild Flowers | $6.00 | $12.00 | $8.33 |
Jul-16 | Map of Mexico 20" x 29" in Color, The Treasure Chest of Mercurial Mexico, The Venice of Mexico, New Map Of Mexico, Notes on the Danish West Indies | $13.00 | $17.00 | $15.00 |
Aug-16 | Sardinia | $9.00 | $12.00 | $10.50 |
Sep-16 | Romania | $6.00 | $8.00 | $6.67 |
Oct-16 | Italy | $6.00 | $10.00 | $7.67 |
Nov-16 | Large American Mammals | $7.50 | $12.00 | $9.17 |
Dec-16 | Lonely Australia - The Unknown Continent | $9.00 | $12.00 | $10.50 |
Jan-17 | Sequoia Park | $5.00 | $10.00 | $7.33 |
Feb-17 | Bohemia | $8.50 | $8.50 | $8.50 |
Mar-17 | War Patriotism; Great Britain, Russia; Colored pictures from Spain, Holy Land, Egypt, Jerusalem, Algeria, Morocco | $6.00 | $7.50 | $6.75 |
Apr-17 | Great Democracy | $7.00 | $7.00 | $7.00 |
May-17 | $6.50 | $9.00 | $7.75 | |
Jun-17 | Our First Alliance; Our State Flowers and Madonnas of Many Lands. 16 pages in color. | $7.00 | $7.00 | $7.00 |
Jul-17 | $7.00 | $7.00 | $7.00 | |
Aug-17 | $4.50 | $6.00 | $5.25 | |
Sep-17 | $7.00 | $12.00 | $9.50 | |
Oct-17 | Flag number | $9.00 | $11.50 | $10.25 |
Nov-17 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | |
Dec-17 | US Army map; Lorraine, France, WWI | $11.50 | $24.00 | $17.50 |
Jan-18 | Building America's Air Army; Aces of the Air | $6.00 | $16.00 | $10.17 |
Feb-18 | The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes - Explorations in the Katmai District of Alaska (47 illustrations); Helping to Solve Our Allies' Food Problem (23 illustrations); Billions of Barrels of Oil Locked up in Rocks (10 illustrations); Shopping Abroad for Our Army in France (6 illustrations) | $6.00 | $10.00 | $7.67 |
Mar-18 | US Citizen Army; Isle of Frankincense | $7.00 | $9.00 | $8.25 |
Apr-18 | WWI articles - Our American Navy by Josephus Daniels, Being an American, New Fashions in Food | $6.00 | $11.50 | $8.75 |
May-18 | Smaller North American Mammals; MAP OF THE WESTERN THEATRE OF WAR Map Supplement | $6.00 | $11.00 | $8.67 |
Jun-18 | Cooties and Courage; Battle-Ground of Nature: The Atlantic Seaboard; Prussianism - Germany's Dream of World Domination; Aces Among Aces | $6.50 | $10.00 | $8.50 |
Jul-18 | New York, Metropolis of Mankind (39 illustrations including Women Police Parading Down Fifth Avenue; Police Marching with Service Flag; St. Paul's Church; Madison Square Flatiron Building; The Equitable Building; Ashokan Reservoir; Pennsylvania Station; Largest hotel; Fighting The Grain Fire; Woolworth Bldg; Subway & more.); Turkey (14 illustrations) Constantinople, Urfa; Under the Heel of the Turk; A Day in the Geographic Wards | $7.00 | $15.00 | $10.88 |
Aug-18 | British Take Baku; Bringing the World to Our Foreign-Language Soldiers; Acorn, a Possibly Neglected Source of Food | $4.00 | $8.50 | $6.67 |
Sep-18 | American People Must Become Ship-Minded | $4.50 | $12.00 | $7.63 |
Oct-18 | How Canada Went to the Front; Healer of Humanity's Wounds; Old Jewel in the Proper Setting: An Eyewitness's Account of the Reconquest of the Holy Land by Twentieth Century Crusaders | $3.50 | $9.00 | $5.88 |
Nov-18 | Our Friend, the French; The Price of Liberty- An Appreciation; The Rebirth of Religion in Russia; An Important New Guide for Shipping; Coal-Ally of American Industry; The Spirit of the Geographic | $8.00 | $11.00 | $10.00 |
Dec-18 | Races of Europe; 20" x 24 " color map of Europe with Races | $7.00 | $12.50 | $9.83 |
Jan-19 | Chicago Today and Tomorrow: A City Whose Industries Have Changed the Food Status of the World and Transformed the Economic Situation of a Billion People; League of Nations, What It Means and Why It Must Be | $7.00 | $14.00 | $10.33 |
Feb-19 | American Berries of Hill, Dale, and Wayside; North Sea Mine Barrage; Sarawak: The Land of the White Rajahs | $6.00 | $11.00 | $8.50 |
Mar-19 | Our Common Dogs; Mankind's Best Friend: Companion of His Solitude, Advance Guard in the Hunt, and Ally of the Trenches | $26.00 | $40.00 | $34.00 |
Apr-19 | Cone-Dwellers of Asia Minor: A Primitive People Who Live in Nature-Made Apartment Houses, Fashioned by Volcanic Violence and Trickling Streams; Murman Coast: Arctic Gateway for American and Allied Expeditionary Forces in Northern European Russia; Ten Thousand Smokes Now a National Monument | $3.00 | $16.00 | $7.67 |
May-19 | Helium, the New Balloon Gas; Hunting Big Game of Other Days: A Boating Expedition in Search of Fossils in Alberta, Canada; Indiana's Unrivaled Sand-Dunes--A National Park Opportunity; Industrial Titan of America: Pennsylvania | $3.50 | $12.00 | $7.50 |
Jun-19 | Azores: Picturesque and Historic Half-way House of American Transatlantic Aviators; Devil-Fishing in the Gulf Stream; Millennial City: The Romance of Geneva, Capital of the League of Nations; Map of the New Germany | $4.00 | $11.00 | $7.33 |
Jul-19 | Exploring Unknown Corners of the "Hermit Kingdom"; Land of Lambskins: An Expedition to Bokhara, Russian Central Asia, to Study the Karakul Sheep Industry; Masters of Flight; Progressive World Struggle of the Jews for Civil Equality | $7.00 | $12.00 | $9.33 |
Aug-19 | Between Massacres in Van; Exploring the Glories of the Firmament | $4.50 | $6.00 | $5.50 |
Sep-19 | America's South Sea Soldiers; Descendants of Confucius; Isle of Capri: An Imperial Residence and Probable Wireless Station of Ancient Rome; Shantung--China's Holy Land; Shattered Capitals of Central America | $7.00 | $12.00 | $9.50 |
Oct-19 | Customs of Central African Tribes; Mexican Land of Canaan: Marvelous Riches of the Wonderful West Coast of Our Neighbor Republic; Vanishing People of the South Seas: The Tragic Fate of the Marquesan Cannibals, Noted for Their Warlike Courage and Physical Beauty | $5.00 | $15.00 | $9.00 |
Nov-19 | Land of the Stalking Death: A Journey Through Starving Armenia on an American Relief Train; Rise of the New Arab Nation; Syria: The Land Link of History's Chain | $4.50 | $15.00 | $9.50 |
Dec-19 | American Decorations and Insignia of Honor and Service; Romance of Military Insignia: How the United States Government Recognizes Deeds of Heroism and Devotion to Duty; Camel of the Frozen Desert; Celebrating Christmas on the Meuse | $17.50 | $44.50 | $27.67 |