1872 Pekin, Jeddo, and San Francisco: The Conclusion of a Voyage Round the World

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

First edition. 

Bound in half calf, with cloth boards.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates, one of which is folding. Collated, complete. 

This account documents the last scenes of de Beauvoir's voyage round the world, beginning in Shanghai and travelling through Pekin, the Great Wall, Yokohama, Jeddo, San Francisco and Saratoga before returning to Paris. 

Written by Francois Jean de Beauvoir, who served during the War of American Independence as major general in the French expeditionary forces. He was also widely noted, at the time of his campaigns in America, as a highly talented man of letters and a member of the Academie Francaise. 

Sixteen pages of advertisements bound upside-down the rear, followed by sixteen more pages of advertisements bound correctly.