Attention Collectors!!!

You are bidding on a rare, antique hardcover book titled Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1861. Edited by Francis Galton. With Ten Maps to Illustrate The Routes. Published in Cambridge and London, England by Macmillan and Co., 1862. This is the scarce and collectible First Edition.

  Book is a compilation of accounts of travel including "St. Petersburg and Moscow" by Archibald Weir; "The Country of Schamyl" by William Marshall; "The Monks of Mount Athos" by H.F. Tozer; "The Amazon and Rio Madeira" by Charles Young; "Nine Weeks in Canada" by Rochard Collinson; "A Naturalist's Impression of Spain"; "Geological Notes on Auvergne; "Fiji and Its Inhabitants" by Berthold Seemann: "The Kru Coast, Cape Palmas, and the Niger"; "Nabloos and the Samaritans" (Palestine); "Christmas in Montenegro".

This is a very attractive book! Book features calf leather binding with leather tips. Covers have a swirling design. Covers are firmly attached. The spine has five raised bands with gold lettering on red morocco leather label. There are ornate gilt compartmentalized designs. The outer edges of pages have marbellized design and there are decorative marbellized endpages. All pages are clean and tightly bound with no foxing. Book shows some general wear and remains in very good condition. A lovely and rare book! 

Very collectible!

Would make a terrific addition to a collection.

Perfect gift idea!

(Inventory: 454)