By Land & Sea ; A Trip Personally Conducted by McLoughlin Bros

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. thick boards, illustrated front cover, red cloth backstrip.. 18 unnumbered pages. 31 x 29.5 cm. All plates are chromolithographs. Nineteenth-century children's book which shows the fascination of the time with travel, particularly in the new and exotic conveyances. The world tour begins in England on horse-back, and ends in America on the most contemporary pedal contraptions. The tour takes in Australia for a trip on the Blue Mountains zig-zag railway. OCLC: 904538941. Cover extremities rubbed, backstrip nicked head and foot. Plates generally clean and bright.