(TRAVEL) [Burroughs John] In Natures Laboratory

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(TRAVEL.) [Burroughs, John.] In Nature's Laboratory (cover title). Map, 44 original photographs, facsimile letter by John Burroughs, text illustrations. [50] pages. 4to, publisher's stamped limp suede, minor rubbing, tasteful restoration to backstrip; hinges starting, related newspaper clipping taped to front free endpaper, a few inked comments apparently by the original owner, contents otherwise clean; uncut; inscribed to longtime Edison associate Arthur W. Moore on dedication leaf and signed by Edison, Burroughs, and Firestone. Np, [1916]

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A privately printed account of a summer vacation trip taken by Thomas Edison, naturalist John Burroughs, and tire magnate Harvey Firestone on a 1115-mile automobile journey from Orange, NJ through upstate New York and Vermont. Some of the text is credited to Burroughs, and most is anonymous narrative verse; Burroughs was apparently responsible for designing and producing the book.