Across the Meridian and Fragmentary Letters

by Harriet E. Francis

$425 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Illustrated with 23 collotype plates from original photographs. 300pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Original purple cloth with decorated endpapers. Covers a little scuffed and soiled, internally fine. Old newspaper clippings tipped in of author's obituary. Very scarce. Smith F60. Item #32433 Privately printed account of a world tour by a wealthy family in 1875-76, liberally illustrated with beautiful photographs. The author travelled through China, Japan,

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