[2], 505 pp. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait of P.T. Barnum with 4 chromolithograph plates and numerous wood engravings. (4to) 24.6x19 cm (9¾x7½"), publisher's pebbled cloth decoratively stamped in blind with gilt medallion and lettering, all edges marbled. First Edition. Reprinted in 1891 and then reissued in 1896, without author's name, under title: Forest and Jungle; or, Thrilling Adventures in All Quarters of the Globe. Somewhere in the nineteenth century at the intersection of natural history and exploration narratives a rare plant bloomed, Phineas T. Barnum and his Greatest Show on Earth.
[2], 505 pp. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait of P.T. Barnum with 4 chromolithograph plates and numerous wood engravings. (4to) 24.6x19 cm (9¾x7½"), publisher's pebbled cloth decoratively stamped in blind with gilt medallion and lettering, all edges marbled. First Edition. Reprinted in 1891 and then reissued in 1896, without author's name, under title: Forest and Jungle; or, Thrilling Adventures in All Quarters of the Globe. Somewhere in the nineteenth century at the intersection of natural history and exploration narratives a rare plant bloomed, Phineas T. Barnum and his Greatest Show on Earth.
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