Hamilton Aide (b.1829) A Voyage of Discovery , London: James R. Osgood, Mcilvaine & Co., 1892. 2 volumes, 8° (90 x 120mm.). (Occasional light spotting). Original blue and gold cloth (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY LADY STANLEY on front endpaper: "This is an account of our visit to the United States ... we left London Oct. 1890 & returned April 1891. Hamilton Aide only gives account of his experiences - he was with us on & off most of the time ... this I write May 3rd 1926." With 5 other works in 6 vols. including John Fiske's The Discovery of America (London, 1892, 2 vols.), John Bigelow's The Principles of Strategy illustrated mainly from American Campaigns (London, 1891) and Henry Ruggles's Germany Seen Without Spectacles (Boston, 1883, inscribed by the author to Stanley); with 3 mounted photographic prints of the Stanleys and party aboard the Pullman coach "Henry M. Stanley." The Stanleys, along with Sir Stanley's mother in law, Arthur Jephson and Hamilton Aïdé set off on a coast-to-coast lecture tour of America in October 1890 aboard a luxurious Pullman coach equipped with 3 bedrooms and a kitchen, provided by Major James Pond, Stanley's lecture agent. (8)
Hamilton Aide (b.1829) A Voyage of Discovery , London: James R. Osgood, Mcilvaine & Co., 1892. 2 volumes, 8° (90 x 120mm.). (Occasional light spotting). Original blue and gold cloth (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY LADY STANLEY on front endpaper: "This is an account of our visit to the United States ... we left London Oct. 1890 & returned April 1891. Hamilton Aide only gives account of his experiences - he was with us on & off most of the time ... this I write May 3rd 1926." With 5 other works in 6 vols. including John Fiske's The Discovery of America (London, 1892, 2 vols.), John Bigelow's The Principles of Strategy illustrated mainly from American Campaigns (London, 1891) and Henry Ruggles's Germany Seen Without Spectacles (Boston, 1883, inscribed by the author to Stanley); with 3 mounted photographic prints of the Stanleys and party aboard the Pullman coach "Henry M. Stanley." The Stanleys, along with Sir Stanley's mother in law, Arthur Jephson and Hamilton Aïdé set off on a coast-to-coast lecture tour of America in October 1890 aboard a luxurious Pullman coach equipped with 3 bedrooms and a kitchen, provided by Major James Pond, Stanley's lecture agent. (8)
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