First edition. Frontispiece portrait, of the author, 55 full-page illustrations, numerous in-text illustrations and a folding map. 8vo. Later half leather with marbled paper boards, gilt title to ribbed spine. Browned. Former owner’s note to title page, bookplate to upper pastedown. xii, 730, [8 publisher’s advertisement] pp. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1873.
A few typed letters relating to the previous owner and the work loosely inserted.
