ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO JAPAN AND CHINA by KNOX, Thomas W - 1879

New York 1881, Harper. Red decorated cloth, very good, map, colored frontis, 338 b. w. illustrations, 421p., map, very clean, crisp copy, right corner of p.293 torn, no text loss, else clean. S C A R C E Covering the trip from the East coast to California, on the Pacific, incidents of a whaling voyage. Arrival in Japan, from Yokohama to Tokyo, the sights of the Eastern Capital or Yedo, Asakusa and Uyeno, visit to Tokyo's first National Fair, walks and talks in Tokyo. * JAPAN: Excursion to the Daibutsu and Enoshima, the sights, on the road to Fujiyama, the ascent, Hara-Kiri [Japanese suicide], Sumo wrestlers, theatrical entertainments, Japanese art, something about Japanese women, from Yokohama to Kobe & Osaka, and a trip down to Nagasaki. * CHINA: To Shanghai, voyage up the great river Yang-tse, Tai-Ping Revolution, from Shanghai to Pekin, to the Great Wall, Hong Kong and Canton, signts & scenes in Canton. * Nice travel guide and insight, and excellent early primary resource. *** .

New York: Harper & Bros.,, 1879. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. pictorial cloth covers and spine, 431, (2) pp of adverts, illustrated, full color frontispiece reproduced from a painting by a Japanese artist, numerous black & white illustrations from wood-cuts, full page, black & white map, pictorial end-papers, light wear at corners and spine ends, very small indentation mid-way at front cover hinge, A very bright, attractive copy of a book seldom found in satisfactory cond. Size: Sm 4to.,.

Harper & Brothers, 1880. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Covers worn. Hinges cracked. Gift inscription on first blank page. Tissue sheet over frontispiece is torn out. Binding is still tight.