National Geographic Magazines 1909 Back Issues. January - December
National Geographic - January 1909, Vol. 20, No.1
Sicily, The Battlefield of Nations and Nature. The buried Cities of Asia Minor. Lessons from China. The Value of the United States Forest Service. The Emancipation of Mohammedan Women. Sunshine in Turkey. Annual Banquet of the National Geographic Society.
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National Geographic - February 1909, Vol. 20, No.2
Kaleidoscope La Paz: The City of the Clouds. The Mountaineers of the Euphrates. One Thousand miles of Railway Built for Pilgrims and Not for Dividends. Scenes from Asia Minor. Jack in the Box. An Account of the Strange Performances of the Most Wonderful Island in the World. Conditions of Cuba as Revealed by the Census.
A water damaged copy Price: $25.00.
National Geographic - March 1909, Vol. 20, No.3
Map of Africa Showing Railway and Telegraph Lines, Elevations and Latest Geographical data, Where Roosevelt Will Hunt: the Most Interesting Geographical Region in the World, Amid the Snow Peaks of the Equator: a Naturalist's Explorations Around Ruwenzori, with an Account of the Terrible Scourge of Sleeping Sickness. Natal, the Garden Colony. The Magnetic Survey of Africa. The French in North Africa.
Magazine is complete and in good/poor condition with detached covers. No map. Price $25.00.
National Geographic - April 1909, Vol. 20, No.4
Hunting the Great Brown Bear of Alaska, The panama canal, The Original Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia, The Leach's Petrel: His Nursery on Little Duck Island, Colossal Work in Baltimore, The World's Most Cruel Earthquake, The American Red Cross in Sicily, Shackleton"s Farthest South.
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National Geographic - May 1909, Vol. 20, No.5
The Call of the West. Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist. In Beautiful Delecarlia. A Plague of Mice. The National Geographic Society. Greely's Handbook of Alaska.
Magazine is complete Pages show signs of water damage. Spine is chipped. Price: $25.00 Two like this are available.
National Geographic - June 1909, Vol. 20, No.6
The Worlds highest Altitudes and First Ascents. A wonderland of Glaciers and Snow. The Highest Point in Each State. Illustrated. Brittany, The land of the Sardine. When Our Country is Fifty Years Older. The National Geographic Society Expedition to Alaska. Wonderful Scenes in India.
Magazine is complete Pages show signs of water damage. Spine is slightly chipped. Price: $25.00
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National Geographic - July 1909, Vol. 20, No.7
The Economic Evolution of Alaska. Marking the Alaskan Boundary. Charting a Coast-Line of 26,000 Miles. The Monarchs of Alaska. The Big game of Alaska. Some Giant Fishes of the Seas. Our Pacific Northwest. The Tallest Tree That Grows. The Eucalyptus Tree. Magnetic Observations in Alaska. Agricultural Capacity of Alaska.
Magazine is complete and in Very Good/Good overall condition. Spine is chipped. Interior pages are in excellent condition with the previous owners name stamped on the front cover. Price $40.00 And a third copy in Good condition is also available. Price: $25.00
National Geographic - August 1909, Vol. 20, No.8
The Colorado Desert. King Herring: An Account of the World's Most Valuable Fish. Economic Loss to the People of the United States Through Insects that Carry Disease. Life in the Great Desert of Central Asia.
Magazine is complete and in Excellent/Very Good overall condition. Spine is intact. Interior pages are in excellent condition. Price: $45.00
Magazine is complete and in Good overall condition. Spine is scuffed. Interior pages are in excellent condition. Price: $35.00 Three like this are available. And another with the previous owners name stamped on the front cover. Price $30.00
National Geographic - September 1909, Vol. 20, No.9
The Glass-bottom Boat. Exploration in Crete. The Afghan Borderland. With the Monks at Meteora: The Monasteries of Thessaly. The Prehistoric Ruin of Tsankawi. Hidden Perlis of the Deep. The Wheeler National Monument.
Magazine is complete and in Very Good overall condition. Spine is slightly chipped. Interior pages are in excellent condition. Price: $45.00.Another copy in better condition. Price: $55.00.
Magazine is complete and in Very Good overall condition. Front cover is slightly soiled (see scan) Spine is intact. Interior pages are in excellent condition. Price: $45.00
Magazine is complete and in Very Good overall condition with the previous owners name stamped on the front cover. Price: $40.00.
Magazine is complete Pages show signs of water damage. Spine is chipped. Price: $25.00. Another copy like this is also available but it is not water damaged. Price: $30.00
National Geographic - October 1909, Vol. 20, No.10
Notes on Burma. The Afghan Borderland, Scenes From Greenland. The Discovery of the Pole. Fishing and Hunting Tales from Brazil.
Magazine is complete and in Very Good/Good overall condition. With the previous owners name stamped on the front cover. Price $30.00
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National Geographic - November 1909, Vol. 20, No.11
The temples of India. With 54 Illustrations from Photographs by W.M. Zumbro. The Heart of the Antarctic.
Magazine is complete and in Good overall condition. Interior pages are in excellent condition. Price: $40.00. Two like this are available.
National Geographic - December 1909, Vol. 20, No.12
The Route Over Which Moses Led the Children of Israel Out of Egypt. Arabia, the Desert of the Sea. A country Where Going to America is an Industry. Turbulent Nicaragua. The illustrations on pages 1069-1095 are all from photographs by W. von Gloden, of Sicily Italy. Magazine measures 10" x 7".
Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (September 16, 1856 – February 16, 1931) was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy. He is mostly known for his pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boys, which usually featured props such as wreaths or amphoras suggesting a setting in the Greece or Italy of antiquity. From a modern standpoint, his work is commendable due to his controlled use of lighting as well as the often elegant poses of his models. Innovative use of photographic filters and special body makeup (a mixture of milk, olive oil, and glycerin) to disguise skin blemishes contribute to the artistic perfection of his works.
Famous in his own day, his work was subsequently eclipsed for close to a century, only to re-emerge in recent times as "the most important gay visual artist of the pre–World War I era" according to Thomas Waugh.
While today von Gloeden is mainly known for his nudes, in his lifetime he was also famous for his landscape photography that helped popularize tourism to Italy. He also documented earthquake damage in Reggio Calabria & Messina in 1908. This may also explain why the locals mostly approved of his work.
The majority of von Gloeden's pictures were made before World War I, in the period 1890-1910. During the war, he had to leave Italy. After returning in 1918, he photographed very little but continued to make new prints from his voluminous archives. In total, the Baron took over 3000 images (and possibly up to 7000), which after his death were left to one of his models, Pancrazio Buciunì (also spelled Bucini; his dates sometimes given as c.1864-c.1951 but probably should be 1879-1963), known as Il Moro (or U Moru) for his North African looks. Il Moro had been von Gloeden's lover since the age of fourteen, when he had first joined the household of the Baron. In 1933, some 1000 glass negatives from von Gloeden's collection (inherited by Buciuni) and 2000 prints were confiscated by Benito Mussolini's Fascist police under the allegation that they constituted pornography and were destroyed; another 1000 negatives were destroyed in 1936, although Buciuni was tried and cleared at a court in Messina (1939–41) of disseminating pornographic images. Most of the surviving pictures (negatives and prints) are now in the Fratelli Alinari photographic archive in Florence (which in 1999 bought 878 glass negatives & 956 vintage prints formerly belonging to Buciuni to add to its existing collection of 106 prints) and further prints (which fetch hundreds of pounds at auction) are in private collections or held by public institutions such as the Civico Archivo Fotographico in Milan.
Magazine is complete and in Very Good/Good overall condition. Spine is chipped. Interior pages are in excellent condition. Also contains the Index and list of illustrations for the Year 1909 Price: $55.00.
Magazine is complete and in Very Good overall condition with the previous owners name stamped on the front cover. Price: $50.00.
A ex-library copy in good condition is also available. Price $25.00