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Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. 335; inner hinges slightly cracked, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, small stain to upper cover, chipping to spine ends. This uncommon book was published "in a small and private edition . . . to gratify Mrs. Straiton's and her daughter Emma's friends, who followed them, only in part, through their letters in The Flushing Journal" (Preface). The letters, with commentary by Emma, relate their 1880 journey from America to Britain and onwards to India via the Suez Canal; an ensuing visit to the Holy Land, Turkey and Greece; and a continuation through Italy into Austria, the Tyrol, and Switzerland, through France to Britain, Ireland, and home. The account includes details of their visits the to the Passion Play at Oberammergau, and to Chamonix and Mont Blanc.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. 335 PAGES. INTERNAL HINGES ARE EXPOSED, BUT STILL STRONG. MARIE AND EMILY STRAITON CAME FROM A PROMINENT NEW YORK FAMILY RESIDING IN BAYSIDE. JOHN STRAITON, MARIE'S HUSBAND AND EMILY'S FATHER, HAD IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES FROM SCOTLAND IN 1850 AND STARTED THE WHITE OWL CIGAR COMPANY WHICH BECAME THE LARGEST DOMESTIC CIGAR MAKING COMPANY IN THE 1860S. THE STRAITON'S LEFT NEW YORK IN JANUARY, 1880 FOR SCOTLAND WHERE THEY VISITED RELATIVES. THEY LEFT LIVERPOOL ON A STEAMER BOUND FOR BOMBAY INDIA WHERE THEY VISITED FRIENDS. FROM INDIA THEY SAILED TO CAIRO AND THEN ON TO JAFFA. THEY JOINED A THOMAS COOK TOUR FOR THE HOLY LAND LEG OF THEIR JOURNEY AND EMBARKED BY HORSEBACK TO JERUSALEM. THE BOOK WAS PRIVATELY PUBLISHED BY THE EVENING JOURNAL PRESS FOR JOHN STRAITON IN 1881. THE BOOK WAS BASED ON LETTERS WHICH THE TWO WOMEN HAD SENT HOME DURING THEIR TRIP; MANY OF WHICH HAD BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE "FLUSHING JOURNAL". CIRCULATION WAS LARGELY LIMITED TO FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. FOR DETAILED INFORMATIN ON THE CONTENT CHECK OUT THE COLORADO STATE LIBRARY. Size: OBLONG 12MO.