Wm. Seward TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD illus 1st 1873

Seward, William H. TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD. Edited by Olive Risley Seward. Thick octavo. xii,730 pp plus several pages publisher's ads bound in back. NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1873. First edition, with matching dates. Flake 7624; Sabin L 79594. Hardbound in marbled paper boards with 1/4 brown leather spine, leather corners, gilt titles on spine, marbled endpapers. With 200 b/w illustrations, many full page, steel engraved frontis portrait of Seward with tissue guard, folding map of Seward's route.

After the Alaska purchase, Secretary of State Seward retired from public life and spent 2 years traveling around the world. His journal of the travels was edited by his adopted daughter. He crossed the US, stopping in Utah and California, then sailed to Japan and China, India, Palestine, Europe, then home to NY. In six parts: United States, Canada, and Pacific Ocean; Japan, China, and Cochin China; The Easter Archipelago, Straits of Malacca, and Ceylon; British India; Egypt and Palestine; Europe. Considered one of the best travel books of the late 19th c.

CONDITION: Good Plus. Front hinge cracked, but binding still solid. Frontis and title page heavily foxed, other pages with sporadic light foxing. Inked name on endpaper. Folding map creased and chipped in margin, small chip to margin of page in index. Wear to extremities. Presentable copy.

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