Promenade autour du monde

Stated fifth edition, illustrated with 316 wood engravings, including numerous plates. This fifth edition is the only one issued in the publisher’s cloth.
Publisher’s binding by Souze. Half red shagreen. Spine richly tooled with a bouquet of flowers, various large tools and special rolls. Boards elaborately decorated with a central gilt panel bearing the American eagle and the motto: E pluribus unum. Broad red and black border with several red and gilt medallions on a black ground. Gilt edges. A few scattered marginal foxmarks. Some rubbing, notably to the headcaps. Corners softened.

A handsome copy in its publisher’s binding.

The author, formerly the Austrian ambassador to Paris, undertook in 1871 an extensive world tour that took him to the United States (which he crossed from New York to San Francisco), Japan, and China. A substantial round-the-world journey, generously illustrated. It comprises three narratives: one on North America, one on Japan, and one on China.