Autograph diary of her travels in Italy including Rome, Pompeii, and other visitors' destinations

by Flora Payne Whitney

$8,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

260 pp., written in ink on versos and rectos, with 14 pictures engravings, etc. , some captioned in her hand. Included are some sheets in other hands in French and German. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound with water damage. Item #221802 Flora Payne was a Cleveland heiress whose marriage to William Collins Whitney three years after this diary was written formed the basis of one of America's legendary families. Flora Payne herself was an anomaly among the

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.