Lot 485
Around the World on a Bicycle:
From San Francisco to Teheran & Teheran to Yokohama, 1st UK Edition, 1887 & 1888, by Thomas Stevens. A two-volume worn octavo hardback set in pictorial cloth board covers with gilt lettering to the covers and spines, the first rather more worn than the second, but both appearing complete. The first, 'with over one hundred illustrations', has a full-page chromolithographic portrait by Kelly of the author atop his Ordinary, while the other has a monochrome portrait frontispiece of the author, and is described as having 'numerous illustrations'. Working copies. Both published in London by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. (2)
