Good in its original light gray cloth covered boards with gilt text and black decorations on the spine and on the front board. An octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/2" with heavy wear and rubbing to the cloth at both ends of the spine, with a 1/2" deep chip to the cloth at the head of the spine. The front and rear hinges are broken and the first free end page has attached itself to the front paste down. 329 pages of text with a fold-out facsimile of a Chinese passport following page 124 and the facsimile of an "official card of the U.S. Consul at Canton" following page 166. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of El Capitan at Yosemite Valley and ten plates. A very readable account of the author's round-th-world trip from Boston via train to Salt Lake City (where he meets and speaks with Brigham Young) then on to Yosemite and the Pacific coast to board a ship to Japan, Shanghai, Peking, the Great Wall, Canton, Celon, Calcutta, Delhi, Bombay, Cairo, Florence, Paris, London and then back to Boston. Seller Inventory # TB27868

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Title: Dottings Round The Circle

Publisher: James R. Osgood And Company,, Boston:

Publication Date: 1876

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition.

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We are a professional mail-order book dealer (and open by appointment) specializing in collectible, hard to find books by 20th century authors in the areas of Historical Fiction, Nature, Natural History, Americana and Americana Series titles to include The Rivers of America, the WPA's American Guide Series and the Lakeside Classics and many others. We also carry many volumes of American Literature and leather bound books by the Easton Press and Franklin Library. Come visit us at our web site at www.TownsEndBooks.com.

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