(TRAVEL) Ackrill Robert A Scamper from Yorkshire to the Unit

Sale 2432 - Lot 314

Price Realized: $ 812

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

(TRAVEL.) Ackrill, Robert. A Scamper from Yorkshire to the United States, with a Glance at Canada, extra-illustrated. 8 engravings, with an albumen photograph frontispiece and 18 original watercolors. [2], v, [5]-179, [1] pages. 8vo, later full morocco gilt, minor wear; minor foxing; gilt edges; later inscription on verso of second leaf. Harrogate, 1878

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

A little-known privately printed travel memoir by a British newspaper editor, with only 11 copies in OCLC. Ackrill describes New York, Washington, Niagara Falls, Albany, Boston, and various points in between. This copy is extra-illustrated with a portrait photograph (presumably of Ackrill) and 18 well-executed watercolors by Charles Henry Knowles, one of the traveling party, as explained by Knowles's grand-niece on a blank page. Not in Howes, Dow's Niagara, or TPL.