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    By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley
    London   Richard Bentley
    8.5" by 5.5" xv [2], 2-307; 351; 316pp
    The scarce three volume first edition of Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley's best known work, an account of her North American travels in the mid nineteenth century.
    By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley

    1851 Travels in the United States, Etc. During 1849 and 1850

    London   Richard Bentley
    8.5" by 5.5" xv [2], 2-307; 351; 316pp
    The scarce three volume first edition of Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley's best known work, an account of her North American travels in the mid nineteenth century.
    £2,400.00
    : 1.5kgs / : 834F2
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    Description

    First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

    After the death of Lady Stuart Wortley's husband in 1844, she embarked on a number of expeditions alongside her teenage daughter, Victoria. Between 1849 and 1850 they journeyed across the United States, beginning in New York, and eventually travelling south through Mexico, Panama and Peru.

    The author narrates the course of their journey and the people and sites they encountered, in a work she describes in the preface as concerned with 'the gossip of travel', with portions derived from her personal letters.

    With half title to volume II only, as called for.

    Former owner inscription to head of each title page.

    A scarce and popular work of Victorian era travel writing.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, and board perimeters. Otherwise, externally very bright. All hinges starting. Internally, firmly bound. Former owner's inscription to head of each title page. Pages bright, with handling marks and the odd light spot throughout.

    Very Good

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