Search Results: The Antipodes and Round by Frere, M

1870. London: Hatchards, 1870. Large 8vo, (vi), 633 pp. Color frontis., 6 full-page b&w plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. Half dark green morocco by Zaehnsdorf. Binding a little rubbed and worn at joints, shelf mark erased from foot of backstrip, small rubber shelf stamp on verso of title, bookplate on front paste-down. Very good. § First edition of this wide-ranging travelogue by Englishwoman Alice Frere (1842-1926), who, in her early twenties, spent two years travelling around the world in the company of her father, recently released from a civil service position in Bombay, and an Indo-Portuguese servant. "For fear of it proving impracticable we had not said very much about our cherished scheme of visiting Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, and California, on our way home; and I do not think that many of our friends believed in the reality of our intentions until they saw us board the 'Jeddo,' bound for Point de Gelle...