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1916-1929

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Issue Date:

Cover/Issue Description:

Condition:*

Price:

Nat Geo MAPS Cloth Folder Book

With 10 Envelopes bound in red cloth for storing your Nat Geo maps – from the 1940s – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00 ea.

1915 Advertising Promotion

“Specimens in Miniature”, 32 pages

Good, cover wear

$15.00

1919 Membership

Certificate, folded

G/VG

$15.00

 

June, 1908

One Season’s Game-Bag with the Camera by George Shiras 3rd, North American Indians (with 5 full-page photos by Edward Curtis)

Good, 8 pages missing

$20.00

 

February, 1911

Panama Canal by George Goethals, Snake Dance, Wild Blueberry

Not Available

NA

June, 1911

Canadian Rockies, Falls of Zambesi, Mount McKinley, Researches in Alaska. No Insert

Not Available

NA

July, 1911

Reptiles, Indian Census of 1911, Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs, Woman’s Climbs in the High Alps, The Bees

Not Available

NA

August, 1911

Sea Dyaks of Borneo, Tunis of Today, Morocco, Moorish Religious Dances, Recent Population Figures

Not Available

NA

September, 1911

The Mole Men of Southern Tunisia, Kaieteur Fall in British Guiana, Caves of Asia Minor, Speediest Boat

Not Available

NA

October, 1911

New Plant Immigrants, Brazil Coffee Country, Corner of Old Wurttemberg, Tahiti

Not Available

NA

November, 1911

Japan, Kingdom of FlowersChina, Tripoli, great Rainbow Natural Bridge, Mysteries of the Desert

Not Available

NA

 

June, 1912

Our National Parks, Cascades in Central Oregon, Pacific Northwest

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1913

Light Houses, Discovery of Cancer in Plants, From Jerusalem to Aleppo, Honors to Amundsen and Peary

Not Available

NA

February, 1913

Katmai Volcano in Alaska, Changing Map of the Balkans, Countries of the Caribbean, w/MAP of Caribbean – no Map

Not Available

NA

March, 1913

Oysters, Greece and Montenegro, Greek Monastery, Prehistoric Ruins of Guatemala, Saving the Ducks and Geese, Wandering Islands in Rio Grande

Not Available

NA

April, 1913

The Wonderland of Peru by Hiram Bingham, with Panorama Insert

Not Available

NA

May, 1913

Monarch of the Canadian Rockies, Monsters in Our Back Yards, The Lama’s Motor Car, w/INSERT of Mount Robson Peak (16” x 44”)

Not Available

NA

July, 1913

Wild Animals That Took Their Own Pictures by Day and Night, Burma

Not Available

NA

August, 1913

Ascent of Mount Blanc, Gems of the Italian Lakes

Not Available

NA

September, 1913

Resurrection of Ancient Egypt, Ibis Cemetery and Jackal Catacombs at Aybdos

Not Available

NA

October, 1913

Rumania and Her Ambitions, the Common Eel, An Army vs. a Bacillus

Not Available

NA

November, 1913

Non-Christian People of the Philippine Islands

Not Available

NA

December, 1913

Religious Penances and Punishments Self-inflicted by the Holy Men of India, Marriage of the Gods, Texas

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1914

Here and There in Northern Africa

Not Available

NA

February, 1914

Panama Slides, The Panama Canal, Nation’s Undeveloped Resources, WITH Map of Alaska insert

Not Available

NA

March, 1914

Village Life in the Holy Land, Encouraging Birds Around the Home, Southern Mexico, The Tropics

Not Available

NA

April, 1914

Castles in the Air, New Home of the Society

Not Available

NA

May, 1914

Common Birds of Town & Country – 64 in color, Mexico, Journey Around Vera Cruz and Tampico, A Mexican Hacienda, WITH Map of Mexico insert

Not Available

NA

June, 1914

Yucatan Mexico, Scenes in Mexico, Guardians of Land and Sea, Honors to Col. Goethals (Panama)

Good

$20.00

July, 1914

Hunting with a Lens, Yuong Japan, Mount Desert, A Book of Monsters, Conservation

Not Available

NA

August, 1914

Experiences in the Grand Canyon, Cape Cod Canal, w/MAP of the Europe with new Balkan Boundaries

Not Available

NA

September, 1914

The France of Today, Belgium, Foreign Born in the US, The German Nation

Not Available

NA

October, 1914

Hungary, England

Not Available

NA

November, 1914

Young Russia by Gilbert Grosvenor

Not Available

NA

December, 1914

Life in Constantinople, Asiatic Turkey, Henry Gannett, Mystic Nedjef, Where Adam & Eve Lived

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1915

Holland, City of Jacqueline, Earthquakes, Partitioned Poland, War-path to the Plow

Not Available

NA

February, 1915

Story of Machu-Pichu by Hiram Bingham, Munster, War and North Sea Fisheries, Wonderland of Science

Not Available

NA

March, 1915

Washington DC by William Howard Taft, Impressions of Palestine, w/TWO Color fold-outs of DC

G/VG

$25.00

April, 1915

Austro-Italian Mountain Frontiers, Bulgaria, Kingdom of Servia

G/VG

$25.00

May, 1915

Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, Constantinople, American Wild Flowers in color, Homer’s Troy Today, The Mayflower

Not Available

NA

June, 1915

Frontier Cities of Italy, Venice

G/VG

$20.00

July, 1915

Channel Ports, Wonderland of California, Glimpse of Mt. Ranier, Glacier National Park & Others

G/VG

$25.00

August, 1915

American Game Birds in Color, Nature’s Transformation at Panama

G/VG

$25.00

September, 1915

Warfare on Our Eastern Coast, Historic Island and Shores of the Aegean Sea, London

G/VG

$25.00

October, 1915

Greece of Today, Armenia and the Armenians, Roumania

Not Available

NA

November, 1915

Beauties of France, World’s Debt to France, Citizen Army of Switzerland

Good

$20.00

December, 1915

Jerusalem’s Lost Plague, Alaska’s New Railway, The Nation’s Pride

Fair/Good, bc stain

$12.50

 

January, 1916

How the World is Fed by William Joseph Showalter

Good

$17.50

February, 1916

How Old is Man by Theodore Roosevelt, The Cradle of Civilization (Turkey), Pushing Back History’s Horizon

Not Available

NA

March, 1916

Canada, The World’s Strangest Capital – Lhasa, Geographical Achievements of the Telephone, w/Panorama of Lhasa Fold-out - 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good, fold-out split

$15.00

 

Same, no fold-out

Good, cover stain

$12.50

 

Same, no fold-out

Fair/Good, cvr insect dmg.

$10.00

April, 1916

The Land of the Best – A Tribute to the Scenic Grandeur and Unsurpassed Resources of Our Own Country, w/Panorama of the King of Trees 

Good

$15.00

 

Same, no insert

G/VG

$17.50

May, 1916

Further Exploration in the Land of the Incas by Hiram Bingham, Staircase Farms of the Ancients, w/Panorama of Peru Ruins

Not Available

NA

June, 1916

Wild Blueberry Tames, America’s Fisheries, Common American Wild Flowers, Citizen Army of Holland, Mt. Desert Island National Park

Good

$17.50

July, 1916

Ancient Mexico, Venice of Mexico, Danish West Indies, with foldout map of Mexico

Not Available

NA

August, 1916

Little-Known Sardinia, Argentina & Chile, Wards of the US (Haiti, etc.), Little Journey in Honduras

Not Available

NA

September, 1916

Roumania and Its Rubicon, Saloniki, Hoary Monasteries of Mt. Athos

Good

$17.50

October, 1916

Italy: Gifted Mother of Civilization 

Not Available

NA

November, 1916

Larger North American Mammals in color, w/color fold-out of Alaskan Brown Bear

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Good – fold-out torn

$15.00

 

Same – no foldout

Good, edge stain

$10.00

December, 1916

Lonely Australia: The Unique Continent

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1917

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Our Big Trees Saved, Proposed Mt. McKinley National Park, 100 British Seaports – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

February, 1917

Our Foreign-Born Citizens, Prizes for the Inventor by Alexander Graham Bell, Bohemia and the Czechs

Not Available

NA

March, 1917

What Britain Is Doing, Russia’s Democrats, Republics, War – Patriotism & Food Supply, Soldiers of the Soil

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 3 copies

Good

$17.50

April, 1917

Do Your Bit for America by Woodrow Wilson, Burden of France, The Call to Colors, etc – all WWI related articles – 2 copies

Good, cover stain

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$15.00

May, 1917

On the Monastir Road, Niagara at the Battle Front, Armies of Mercy, Belgium’s Plight, Devasted Poland, Red Cross Spirit, A Poisoned World by William Howard Taft - 4 copies

Good

$17.50

June, 1917

Our First Alliance by Ambassador Jusserand, Our State Flowers, Madonnas of Many Lands

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Fair/Good

$12.50

July, 1917

The Rat Pest, Russia’s Man of the Hour by Alexander Kerensky, Letters from the Italian Front, Fearful Famines of the Past – 3 copies

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same

Good

$17.50

August, 1917

Russia From Within, Steel, Mecca the Mystic, Arabia, Fold-out of “The Forest Family

G/VG

$20.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$17.50

 

Same

Fair/Good

$12.50

September, 1917

Food Armies of Liberty, Geography of Medicines, Glimpses Into Russia, Conserving the Nation’s Man Power

Good, upper edge stain

$15.00

October, 1917

FLAG Issue. Story of the Stars and Stripes, State Flags, Insignia of Our Uniformed Forces, Flags of Pan-America, Flags of the World, Famous Flags of US History

Not Available

NA

November/ December, 1917

America’s 32 New Soldier Cities, In Lorraine, Need for Military Highways, Training New Armies of Liberty, Gems From Scotland – 2 copies

Good, spine edge fraying

$15.00

 

January, 1918

WWI Aviation Issue – in France, US, Britain, Italy, American Airman in France, Future of the Airplane

Not Available

NA

February, 1918

Valley of 10,000 Smokes, Allied Food Problem, Oil, Shopping Abroad in France, w/Fold-out Valley of 10,000 Smokes

Not Available

NA

March, 1918

Health & Morale of America’s Citizen Army, Voyaging on the Volga Amid War, Isle of Frankincense, Plain Tales from the Trenches

Not Available

NA

April, 1918

Our American Navy, Famine, Forming New Fashions in Food, Nat Geo Society in Wartime

Good

$17.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Fair/Good

$12.50

May, 1918

Smaller North American Mammals – 32 pages in color, no map

Not Available

NA

June, 1918

Cooties and Courage, Prussianism, Germany’s Dream of World Domination, Aces Among Aces (Aviation)

Not Available

NA

July, 1918

New York – Metropolis of Mankind, Under the Heel of the Turk, Day in the Geographic’s Wards

Not Available

NA

August, 1918

Foreign-Language Soldiers, Albania, The Ukraine, The Acorn, British Take Baku, Littlest Ally

Not Available

NA

September, 1918

Ships for the Seven Seas, American People Must Become Ship Minded, Industrial Victory, The War and Ocean Geography

Not Available

NA

October, 1918

Russia’s Orphan Races, War & Britain, Canada Went to the Front, Healer of Humanity’s Wounds

Not Available

NA

November, 1918

The French, Rebirth of Religion in Russia, Coal, Shipping

Not Available

NA

December, 1918

The Races of Europe by Edwin Grosvenor, w/MAP of same

Fair/Good

$12.50

 

October 1918 – May 1919

BOUND VOLUME Bound in Leather & Cloth, with all editorial matter, no covers or ads

Good

$12.50

 

January, 1919

Chicago, League of Nations, Medicine Fakes and Fakers of All Ages

Good

$12.50

February, 1919

North Sea Mine Barrage, Sarawak: Land of the White Rajas, American Berries of Hill, Dale and Wayside

Good

$12.50

March, 1919

Mankind’s Best Friend – Issue Devoted to Dogs

Good

$20.00

April, 1919

Cone Dwellers of Asia Minor, Murman Coast, Trail of a Horse Thief, Ten Thousand Smokes Nat’l Monument – 3 copies

Good

$12.50

May, 1919

Pennsylvania – Industrial Titan of America, Helium, Hunting Big Game of Other Days, Indiana Sand-Dunes – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

 

Same

Fair/Good

$10.00

June, 1919

Geneva, The Azores, Longevity by Alexander Graham Bell, Sight-Seeing in School, Devil-Fishing in the Gulf Stream – 3 copies

Good

$12.50

July, 1919

Jewish Struggle, Korea, Masters of Flight, Land of Lambskins

Good

$15.00

August, 1919

The Geography of Games, Weavers of the World, Astronomy, Between Massacres in Van

Good

$15.00

September, 1919

Shattered Capitals of Central America, Isle of Capri, Shantung, Samoa, Descendents of Confucius

Good

$12.50

October, 1919

South Seas People, Mexican Land of Canaan, Wild Ducks, Customs of Central African Tribes

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same - 3 copies

Good

$12.50

November, 1919

Rise of the New Arab Nation, Where Slav and Mongol Meet, Syria, Land of the Stalking Death

Good

$12.50

December, 1919

Romance of Military Insignia (in color), American Decorations and Insignia of Honor and Service, Christmas on the Meuse, Camel of the Frozen North – 2 copies

Good

$20.00

 


 

January, 1920

Samaritan Rite in Palestine, Home of the Seven Wise Men, By Motor Through Sumatra – 2 copies

Fair/Good

$7.50

February, 1920

Skiing Over the New Hampshire Hills, North Sea Mines, World’s Oil, Rambles in Thoreau’s Country – 3 copies

Good

$12.50

March, 1920

Massachusetts – Beehive of Business, Formosa the Beautiful

Good

$15.00

April, 1920

Admiral Peary As Leader, Peary’s Expeditions, The Crow, Mississippi Flooding, Salvation Army by Evangeline Booth – 5 copies

Good

$12.50

May, 1920

Common Mushrooms in the U.S., Hurdle Racing in Canoes, Malta

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

 

Same

Good, torn corner

$10.00

 

Same

Good, spine wear

$10.00

June, 1920

Mind’s-Eye Map of America, Saving the Redwoods, Peru's Wealth-Producing Birds – 4 copies

Good

$12.50

July-Dec. 1920

BOUND VOLUME Bound in green cloth, leather spine labels, with all editorial matter, no covers or ads

G/VG

$12.50

 

Same, black cloth, leather spine and corners

Good

$10.00

July, 1920

Cuba, Charm of Cape Breton Island, Along Our Side of the Mexican Border – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

August, 1920

Antioch the Glorious, American State Name Origins, Channel Islands – 4 copies

Good

$12.50

 

Same

Good, spine tape repair

$10.00

September, 1920

Rio de Janeiro, Niagaras of Five Continents - Waterfalls, British Guiana Expedition

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same

Good

$12.50

October, 1920

Nepal: Little Known Kingdom, Tahiti, Making a Japan Newspaper, Human Emotions Photographed

Good

$12.50

November, 1920

China Issue. Peking, Yangtze, Man on the Street in China, Ancient Porcelain Center

G/VG

$15.00

December, 1920

Birds of Prey, Falconry – the Sport of Kings, Haiti, Glimpses of Siberia

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Good, cover tear

$12.50


 

January, 1921

The Dream Ship, Warm-Sea Fishes in color, Gulf Stream, Every-Day Life in Afghanistan

Fair/Good

$7.50

February, 1921

Czechoslovakia, Whirlpool of the Balkans, The Orkneys and Shetlands

Not Available

NA

March, 1921

Ceylon, Personal Narrative of the First Aerial World Tour, America in the Air by Billy Mitchell – 2 copies

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Fair

$7.50

April, 1921

Modern Persia and It’s Capital, Persian Caravan Sketches

Not Available

NA

May, 1921

Western Siberia & Altai Mountain, The Mongols, The New Map of Asia

Good

$12.50

June, 1921

Across the Equator with the American Navy, Grasses and Their Flowers, Grand Canyon Bridge, America’s Southwest Scenes – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

July, 1921

Life on the Grand Banks, Scenes From France, Geography of Japan, Big Trees, Adventures with Camera in Many Lands

Good

$12.50

 

Same

Good – cover soiling

$10.00

August, 1921

Wildlife of Lake Superior, Protecting the US from Plant Pests - 2 copies

Good

$15.00

 

Same

Fair/Good

$12.50

September, 1921

Our Greatest National Monument: Valley of 10,000 Smokes, Life Among the People of Eastern Tibet

Good

$12.50

October, 1921

Trail and Jungle in Ecuador, Over the Andes to Bogota, Buenos Aires, New Map of South America 

Good

$12.50

November, 1921

Through the Heart of Hindustan, India, Kashmir, Pilgrimage to Amernath

Good

$12.50

 

Same – 2 copies

Good, cover stain

$10.00

December, 1921

Pacific Islands, Nauru, Yap & Other Pacific Islands, The Mystery of Easter Island

Not Available

NA

 


 

January, 1922

Islands of Bermuda, Fish, Land of the Basques, Our Foreign Trade

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

 

Same

Fair/Good

$7.50

February, 1922

Maya, Jungles of Panama, Shores of the Caribbean, Volcano-Girded Salvador, Costa Rica – 3 copies

Good

$12.50

March, 1922

Prehistoric Telephone Days By Alexander Graham Bell, Hill Tribes of Burma, Snows of Switzerland, Fighting Insects With Airplanes, Chaulmoogra Tree – 5 copies

Good

$15.00

April, 1922

Viscount Bryce’s Last Article on the US – The Scenery of North America, Modern Scenes in Mesopotamia, South Georgia – 4 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 5 copies

Good

$12.50

 

Same

Fair/Good, cover soiled

$7.50

May, 1922

First Alaskan Air Expedition, China, Ruhr, Land of Kublai Khan, World Viewed from the Air – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 2 copies

Good

$12.50

June, 1922

The Far Eastern Republic, Splendor of Rome, Capri, Memorial to Admiral Peary, Constantinople Today – 2 copies

G/VG

$15.00

 

Same – 3 copies