Personal journal kept during a European trip

by John Sargent Pillsbury

$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

July 9, 1889 to August 23, 1889. 12mo approx. 7 x 4½ , approx. 130 pages, in ink; legible, and in near fine condition. The journal begins with a London entry: We arrived from Oxford at 6 o'clock and were driven at once to the Royal Hotel where we had engaged rooms... This is the journal of a tourist primarily, albeit a famous one, with visits and detailed descriptions of the National Gallery, the British Museum, and other museums where he

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