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1861 Vacation Tourists Travel Spain Fiji Illustrated Maps Peru Francis Galton
“Poor humanity! I often feel that the tableland of sanity upon which most of us dwell, is small in area, with unfenced precipices on every side, over any one of which we may fall.”-Sir Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton, was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist and then some. A very intelligent man who was a half-cousin of Charles Darwin.
“Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel” is a lovely three volume set which surveys travel all over the world from Naples to Peru in 1860-1864. There are many illustrations throughout the text as well as 15 maps! Some maps include:
•Geographical Distributions of the Slavonian Races
•The Graian Alps
•Peru
•Map of the Geyser District
•St. Petersburgh and Moscow
•Canada
•Spain
•The Fiji Islands
Item number: #2008
Price: $499
GALTON, Francis
Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860. Edited by F. Galton. With ten maps to illustrate the routes.
Cambridge, London : Macmillan and Co. 1861-[1864]. First Edition.
Details:
•Collation complete with all pages; 3 volumes:
•Notes of Travel in 1860 – [viii], 483
•Notes of Travel in 1861 – [viii], 418
•Notes of Travel in 1862-3 – [viii], 524, [4]
•15 full-page engraved maps
•Provenance: Armorial bookplate - Bibliothèque du Château de Grenade
•Language: English
•Binding: Leather; tight & secure
•Size: ~8in X 6in (20cm x 15cm)
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Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation!2008
“Poor humanity! I often feel that the tableland of sanity upon which most of us dwell, is small in area, with unfenced precipices on every side, over any one of which we may fall.”-Sir Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton, was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist and then some. A very intelligent man who was a half-cousin of Charles Darwin.
“Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel” is a lovely three volume set which surveys travel all over the world from Naples to Peru in 1860-1864. There are many illustrations throughout the text as well as 15 maps! Some maps include:
•Geographical Distributions of the Slavonian Races
•The Graian Alps
•Peru
•Map of the Geyser District
•St. Petersburgh and Moscow
•Canada
•Spain
•The Fiji Islands
Item number: #2008
Price: $499
GALTON, Francis
Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860. Edited by F. Galton. With ten maps to illustrate the routes.
Cambridge, London : Macmillan and Co. 1861-[1864]. First Edition.
Details:
•Collation complete with all pages; 3 volumes:
•Notes of Travel in 1860 – [viii], 483
•Notes of Travel in 1861 – [viii], 418
•Notes of Travel in 1862-3 – [viii], 524, [4]
•15 full-page engraved maps
•Provenance: Armorial bookplate - Bibliothèque du Château de Grenade
•Language: English
•Binding: Leather; tight & secure
•Size: ~8in X 6in (20cm x 15cm)
Our Guarantee:
Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation!2008
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