Bishop - Letters To Henriëtta. Original Edition.

Boston, Northeastern University Press, 2002. Original coloured and plartly illustrated limp wrappers. (ix), 356pp. Facsim. illustrations on 8 plates with captions, including portraits and specimen ms. of a letter, extensive footnotes, full-page and a double-page track-map, table of contents, synopsis printed on lower outer wrapper, list of illustrations, index, bibliography. A collection of Isabella Bird's (Ms. L. Bishop) letters to her homebound sister Henriëtta. Contains correspondence from her first two grand tours to Australia, Hawaii and Colorado (U.S.A.), in 1872-1873, and to Japan, China, Malaya and the Holy Land in 1878-1879. With additional material. Paperback edn. (as orig. publ.). Very fine copy.