Title: The Wanderings of the Hermit of Westminster between New York and San Francisco In The Autumn of 1881 Author: Spice, R[obert] P[aulton] Place: [London] Publisher: Printed for private circulation Date: [1882] Description: 84 pp. Illustrated throughout. (8vo) original pictorial boards, rebacked, endpapers replaced. First Edition. Inscribed: "With the Author's Compliments" at head of the front cover. Contains two chapters on Salt Lake City, two chapters on Yosemite, chapters on Los Angeles, Arizona, New Mexico, Cheyenne, etc. "Visit to Salt Lake. Meets 'the sensuous and cunning impostor Brigham Young,' who maintains a despotic apostle rule. A wedge is now inserted to break it." (Flake). Spice, President of the British Society of Engineers, who took a special interest in new American technology, especially the work of Edison, stopped in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico on his cross-country tour, but the high-point of his trip were his visits to San Francisco, Los Angeles and, in particular, Yosemite, which he narrates in detail. Cowan p. 605; Currey and Kruska 323; Flake 8345; Not in Howes, Eberstadt, Graff or Decker. Lot Amendments Condition: Boards edge worn, some light soiling; very good. Item number: 228774
Title: The Wanderings of the Hermit of Westminster between New York and San Francisco In The Autumn of 1881 Author: Spice, R[obert] P[aulton] Place: [London] Publisher: Printed for private circulation Date: [1882] Description: 84 pp. Illustrated throughout. (8vo) original pictorial boards, rebacked, endpapers replaced. First Edition. Inscribed: "With the Author's Compliments" at head of the front cover. Contains two chapters on Salt Lake City, two chapters on Yosemite, chapters on Los Angeles, Arizona, New Mexico, Cheyenne, etc. "Visit to Salt Lake. Meets 'the sensuous and cunning impostor Brigham Young,' who maintains a despotic apostle rule. A wedge is now inserted to break it." (Flake). Spice, President of the British Society of Engineers, who took a special interest in new American technology, especially the work of Edison, stopped in Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico on his cross-country tour, but the high-point of his trip were his visits to San Francisco, Los Angeles and, in particular, Yosemite, which he narrates in detail. Cowan p. 605; Currey and Kruska 323; Flake 8345; Not in Howes, Eberstadt, Graff or Decker. Lot Amendments Condition: Boards edge worn, some light soiling; very good. Item number: 228774
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