A Seven Months' Run, Up, and Down, and Around the World (Written in Letters to the N. Y. Evening Express)
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1873. First edition. Twelvemo. Green cloth ornately decorated in black & gilt; xiv, 375, [1] pp., [4] pp., adverts; frontis map. A Near Fine, exceptionally well-preserved, copy with a couple of spots to front board and top edge a trifle soiled; owner's penciled name and note to front endpaper, else clean throughout. A scarce, epistolary account of U.S. Representative, James Brooks' (1810-1873) travels to the East, mainly Japan, China, Ceylon, and India. And although the Congressman had gone traveling "for the sake of health," he died a year after the publication of this book. The book appears to have initially been published in 1872; our copy is dated 1873 on the title page. Item #01679
Price: $150.00