An illustrated journal describing a recent visit to Peking
rendered into 100 quatrains and illustrated by 20 tipped-in colour plates each under a captioned guard
Original burgundy cloth boards with while title lettering an blue star designs
"it is intended as a satire on middle-class Negroes and their white sponsors who used the Negro problem to rid themselves of other social neuroses"
Travels in the Free States of Central America: Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador marriage An illustrated journal describing aLondon: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First English edition. Two volumes bound as one. 8vo. pp xvi, 320; xii, 253 pp. Folding coloured map, folding cross section showing proposed canal, bound as an Eton College leaving gift. Bound in green polished calf with ornate gilt spine. double fillets around outside of boards, red morocco label; tips of corners rubbed. Ink gift inscription to first free endpaper. Marbled pastedowns and page