Amusing Adventures, Afloat and Ashore, of Three American Boys

Color lithographic illustrations over press board, front cover very nice with some edge wear, rear cover lower corner of paper covering missing, limited; spine paper cover worn with loss of paper covering, but illustration of tripod and camera complete. Webbing (super) visible to spine and rear cover, well bound with both covers firmly attached. Former ownership name with date of 1888 on ffep. Otherwise unmarked with some discoloration to pages. 312 pages with 300 woodcut illustrations. Images avaialble by request. Comments: chock full of great woodcut illustrations, nearing the end of its heyday as a method of illustrations; ironically camera and tripod illustrated on spine,soon to replace the commonplace craftsmanshsip of the woodcutter, and ironically, photographs were likely the source for these illustrations. The illustrations represent foreign countries, people, etc. of the adventures of American boys to India and back, with adventures throughout Europe, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Egypt and the Suez Canal, etc. …