Lot Essay
Included in the lot is an album containing a manuscript account of a gentleman's cycling tour, illustrated with photographs, and dated 1891.
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PENNELL, Joseph & Elizabeth Robins. Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, London: Longman's, Green, 1888, 8°, folding map, plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth (spine lightly faded) -- The Earl of CAVAN. With Yacht, Camera, and Cycle in the Mediterranean, London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1895, 8°, plates, original pictorial cloth -- Hugh CALLAN. From the Clyde to the Jordan. Narrative of a cycle journey, London: Blackie, 1895, 8°, plates and folding map, original pictorial cloth -- Robert L. JEFFERSON. Awheel to Moscow and Back. The record of a record Cycle Ride, London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1895, 8°, plates and illustration, original pictorial cloth (rubbed); A New Ride to Khiva, London: Methuen, 1900, 8°, plates (spotted throughout), original pictorial cloth (extremities worn) -- Charles EDWARDES. In Jutland with a Cycle, London: Chapman & Hall, 1897, 8°, frontispiece, original cloth -- C. L. FREESTON. Cycling in the Alps, London: Grant Richards, 1900, 8°, plates (title spotted), original pictorial cloth (spine lightly faded) -- William H. & Fanny B. WORKMAN. Through Town and Jungle. Fourteen thousand miles a-wheel among the temples and people of the Indian plain, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904, 8°, plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth. With 29 other works, including a manuscript account of a gentleman's cycling tour, illustrated with photographs, dated 1891. (37)