[24 pages of advertisements--some with color], pages 577-714, [and 22 pages of advertisements]. Illustrations (with twenty-four pages in full color. Maps. Includes the Special Supplement Photograph from Highest Altitude Ever attained by Man. Cover slightly worn and lightly soiled. National Geographic is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography, history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its extensive use of dramatic photographs. The magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included with subscriptions. On occasion, special editions of the magazine are issued. The first issue of National Geographic Magazine was published on September 22, 1888, nine months after the Society was founded. Starting with its January 1905 publication of several full-page pictures of Tibet in 1900-1901, the magazine changed from being a text-oriented publication closer to a scientific journal to featuring extensive pictorial content, and became well known for this style. John Hyde was the first editor. This issue includes: Utah, Carved by Winds and Waters with 22 Photographs and May by Leo A. Borah; Bursts of Color in Sculptured Utah with 22 Natural Color photographs by Richard H. Steward' Normandy--Choice of the Vikings with 26 illustrations by Helen Churchill Candee; Mont St. Michel, a Medieval Masterpiece with 22 Illustrations in Duotone; Butterflies--Try and Get Them with 15 illustrations by Laurence Ilsley Hewes and Austin H. Clark; Winged Jewels from Many Lands with 3 paintings and 6 Natural Color photographs by Murayama and Culver; and Scientific Results of the Stratosphere Flight with 15 illustrations by Captain Albert W. Stevens. Presumed First Edition/First Printing