Brown cloth spine with gilt title. Green cloth boards with gilt title on the front board.

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Chromolith colour frntsp., 3 chromolith colour plates, 2 tinted etchings, 59 text woodcut engravings,
historiated vignettes, and plates.

First edition of this beautifully illustrated book in a fine period binding. Deland (1857-1945) writes this early travel account through St. Augustine and along the St. Johns River in the 1880’s, including vivid reminiscences of the scenery, natural history, and the local people of the time, some of it in dialect. Louis Kinney Harlow (1850-1913) was an exceptional New England landscape artist, noted for his paintings and etchings at the end of the 19th century had moved to Boston in the mid-1880’s in order to advance his career.