Across America and Asia. Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World, and of Residence in Arizona, Japan, and China by Pumpelly Raphael 1837-1923 - 2013-01-28

Leypoldt & Holt, New York, 1870. 9" X 6.25" in green cloth with fancy gilt cover design and lettering. Gilding faded; Covers are soiled; wear at base of spine, lower corners; nasty chip out of the fore edge of front cover; but contents very decent-looking and clean: FAIR PLUS to GOOD MINUS condition. 4 maps, including one in color. ALL INTACT. 454pp. [BD045]. Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket.

New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1870., 1870. 8vo. pp. xvi, 454. 4 maps (3 folding - 1 colour), 12 plates (incl. frontis. & 4 colour facsimiles after Hokusai) & 12 text illus. original gilt-stamped cloth (extremities chipped & frayed, plates offset). Third Revised Edition. Account of the American geologist and mining engineer's extensive travels in the interior of Japan and China under commission from the native governments, and his long journey from China through Mongolia and Siberia to St. Petersburgh. There is an interesting chapter on Japanese art written by artist John La Farge. The first four chapters are primarily devoted to southern Arizona, where Pumpelly was engaged in the development of the silver mines. Cordier, Japonica, 604-05. Howes P-650. cfCordier, Sinica, 2134. cfSmith P101.. Hardcover.