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First English edition, first impression, first issue; 8vo; publisher's blue cloth, titles and star device to spine in silver, marbled endpapers, grey topstain, with the dust jacket; spine gently rolled, topstain faded, very mild ghosting to spine through the dust jacket but an exceptional copy in the lightly spotted, and tanned dust jacket missing a small piece at the top of the spine panel. A lovely copy.

First edition. 8vo, xii, [ii], 328, [1], [2](ads)pp., colour lithograph frontispiece, 2 engraved portraits, folding chart, 3 plans, 2 lithograph plates, 2 folding tables, original red cloth gilt rebacked preserving spine.

Landscape album (230 x 300 mm) containing 98 albumen prints (190 x 240 mm); most with manuscript title to blank verso, all very bright with the minimum of toning, save first two that may have been removed and resinserted since the images have slightly more discolouration and versos spotted, fore-edges of a couple of others bumped from standing proud of others, otherwise in fine condition; bound on linen tabs in contemporary morocco album, presentation manuscript on upper pastedown: 'Hon. Dr Paige/Souvenir of visit to/Windsor Ontario, Canada/Feb. 20th 1925', blind-stamp below: 'Tatum/Post Price Book/Pat. July 13 1909/No 5086, exterior worn and rubbed, edges chipped, otherwise sound.