In Search of a Climate

Endpapers replaced. Original front free endpaper still present, with owner's name "Robert Massie / Morven / Wimborne / 1 Octr 1898". The missing plate has been supplied in facsimile ("Railway Accident at Los Cerillos, N.M.", facing page 313). 4 of the plates are at different locations to those called for in the Illustrations list. Some pencil marginalia. Newspaper clipping on Hawaii from 1898 tipped in at rear. Some foxing. ; xiv, [2], 351, [1], [1 (errata)], [1 (blank)] pages + 1 full page map ("Map of the Hawaiian Islands," with inset map of the Pacific Ocean) + frontispiece + 28 of 29 plates. Lacking the plate facing page 313, which has been supplied in a good quality facsimile. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt illustration on spine. Colour illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 252 x 158mm. Top page edges gilt. "With Thirty [29 in this copy] Photographic Illustrations, Designed and Produced in Photomezzotype by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, Ltd." - from title page. [Reference: Forbes 4588 - "He includes descriptions of Honolulu, Waikiki, and the Nuuanu Pali, all generously expanded by a variety of facts and figures obtained from published sources."]

Product Info

Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston & Company

Year: 1894

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: New Zealand