Across America and Asia: Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan and China
Leypoldt & Holt, New York, 1870, 4th edition revised. hardcover. Hardcover in dark green cloth, decorated with a gilt stamped globe on the cover showing the author’s route. Covers are clean, gilt shiny, corners bumped and worn. Original green endpapers intact. Some light condensation marks on front cover.
Both the front map and rear folding table suffer from prior mis-folding and resultant wear.The frontis plate retains its tissue guard, but that has not prevented transfer browing to the tile and the folding map has done likewise to its adjacent pages. Includes 25 plates and 4 maps, of which 3 are folding. A very pretty book and a real survivor from 145 years ago. Item #F11914
Price: $50.00