This is a handsome, fine binding travelogue about ULYSSES S. GRANT, "Around the World with General Grant - A Narrative of the Visit of General U.S. Grant, Ex-President of the United States, to Various Countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879. To Which Are Added Certain Conversations with General Grant on Questions Connected with American Politics and History" by John Russell Young. 1879 1st edition; Subscription Book Department; New York. Complete set in two volumes. The set features "800 illustrations," some of which are full-page with tissue guards. Volume II has a fold-out map of Grant's route at the front. Nicely bound in three-quarter leather with marbled covers and end papers, gilt lettering and decorations on the spines, and marbled page edges on all sides of the text blocks. The set is a detailed travelogue and historical account of Grant's two-and-a-half-year world tour from 1877 to 1879. It chronicles his visits across Europe, Asia, and Africa, including meetings with world leaders, while featuring candid conversations about the American Civil War.