Morris Ketchum Jesup: A Character Sketch

by William Adams Brown

$75 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

First edition

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, green buckram cloth, gte, 247p, slip laid-in With the compliments of Mrs. Morris K. Jesup . Includes chapter on the North Pole discovery. Morris Ketchum Jesup 1830 - 1908 was an American banker and philanthropist. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History and was known as a leading patron of scientific research and an eminent art

• Binding: Hardcover

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