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— Henry Ward Beecher

London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Russian and Scandinavian Museum Tour] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 455 [3]. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and lighter brown cloth over boards, with a gilt institutional device to upper. All edges and endpapers marbled. Committee of Council on Education prize plate to front pastedown, dated 1875. Spotting to preliminaries, and some light browning to margins. Light rubbing to binding, with bumping and some gentle re-colouring to corners. Very good. The record of an educational tour of museums in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, St Petersburg, Moscow, and other locations in Scandinavia, made in the summer of 1870. Item #56782
Price: £75.00