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National Geographic 1888-1919
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
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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
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Oct-14
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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
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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
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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
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May-15 Constantinople $7.50 $7.50 $7.50
Jun-15
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Jul-15
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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
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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
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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
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Aug-17
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Sep-17
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Oct-17 Flag number $9.00 $11.50 $10.25
Nov-17
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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