Author: John B. Ireland
Title: Wall-Street to Cashmere a Journal of Five Years in Asia Africa Europe
Description: New York, S.A. Rollo & Co; Sampson Low, 1859 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of John B. Ireland's richly illustrated narrative of his tour of the world. The first edition of this work, illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece and title page, a double page map, and sixty-nine plates. Collated, complete.Abandoning a Wall Street career, the author travelled to London to witness the opening of the Great Exhibition, before departing to Asia via the Europe and the Middle East. His provides an account of his travels to locations including Jerusalem, Petra, Kashmir, Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, Java, China, and Mauritius.Smith, in 'American Travellers Abroad', reviewed Ireland's work as "big and gaudy, this book epitomizes the type of traveller and travel caricatured in Around the World in Eighty Days".With a library bookplate to the front pastedown, and stamps to the verso of the title page, and the tail of a small number of leaves.A smart copy of a fascinating account of a global voyage. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Small loss of cloth to spine head. Evidence of spine number removal at back strip tail. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Areas of foxing throughout, concentrated at page perimeters. Stamp to verso of title page, with the odd further stamp throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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