Hardcover, Stated Second Edition 1890 Appleton 473 pages. Good+, no DJ. Moderate shelf/edge wear and soiling to brown cloth pictorial boards with gilt titles - corners bumped and worn. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and crisp. Binding tight. 50 chapters, 54 illustrations and 6 maps of which one is a fold-out in color. That map had been torn along the seam from many openings across the decades and has been repaired with archival tape from the backside. A superb early travel book before the development of aviation. Still handsome despite the wear. Highly recommended. LOC SSS... View More...
