A Trip to the City of Mexico.

Boston: Putnam, Messervy & Co, Bankers, 60 State Street, 1885.

Price: $250.00


About the item

First edition. pp. [3], 88; large folding map printed in color at the back. Frank Wood, Printer, Boston. 1 vols. 12mo. Crimson gilt stamped cloth. Fine. Bookplate of James Torr Harmer.

Item #241468

A party of 30 (mostly Bostonians and new members of the Board of this newly completed Railroad) on the Mexican Central (Railroad) Excursion. "This story ... in the form of a diary entry of events, is made up largely from private memoranda which were made day after day to make it as complete a record of that delightful excursion as possible" (preface).