From Wall Street to Cashmere A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa & Europe 1851 - 1856
by Ireland, J
First edition
Price: $125.00
- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 13937
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition:
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: S. A. Rollo,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1859.
Book Description
New York:: S. A. Rollo,. 1859.. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, color frontis and half title, 531pp, b&w ills, map. Olive green blindstamped decorative cloth, gilt Taj Mahal at front cover, gilt title to spine. Spine rubbed at ends, cloth somewhat rippled. Internally, scattered fox spotting, hinge starting, o/w very good. The narrative begins June 29, 1851 with: "My Dear Mother: -- I am off for Cashmere: so goodbye to you, Wall street, briefs, and "Code". En passant, stopped in London to see the opening of the Great Exhibition, be presented to the Queen..." The author's travel destinations include Danemora Iron Mines, the "Seven Churches", Plains of Troy, Palmyra, Jerusalem, Petra, Seringapatam, Surat, Cashmere, Peshawur, the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan, Java, China and Mauritius.
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