Lot 407
Around the World on a Bicycle,
by Thomas Stevens. Volume one, From San Francisco to Teheran, 1887, 1st UK Edition, with half-quarter leather binding on board. Volume two, Teheran to Yokohama, the 1889 USA edition, with decorative green boards. Worn octavo hardbacks, the first volume 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'. (2)
