April 12, 2024
1911 Stoddards Lectures-15 Volumes-Asia Europe USA Travel Books-Half Leather
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A FIFTEEN VOLUME SET OF BOOKS FEATURING JOHN L. STODDARDS TRAVEL LECTURES...ALL APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN 1911 BY GEO. L. SHUMAN AND COMPANY, CHICAGO & BOSTON...COVER TRAVELS IN EUROPE, ASIA AND THE NORTH AMERICA, FEATURING PLACES LIKE JAPAN, INDIA, CALIFORNIA, ITALY, RUSSIA, IRELAND, ENGLAND, GERMANY AND MANY OTHERS...NUMEROUS B&W & HAND-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS - FULL-PAGE...VOLUMES NUMBERED I THROUGH X W/ FIVE ADDITIONAL VOLUMES OF THE SAME DESIGN...HALF LEATHER (SPINE AND EDGES) W/ MARBLED BOARDS, GILT LETTERING AND FLORAL DECORATION...LOT'S OF CHIPPING EDGES AND CORNERS, MOST ARE TIGHTLY BOUND, SOME MILD PAGE WEAR & STAINING, VERY SOLID CONDITION. Stoddard was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1850. In 1871 he graduated from Williams College , then two years of theology at Yale Divinity School . After that he taught Latin and French at Boston Latin School .[ 2] He was proud of his descent from Solomon Stoddard .He began traveling around the world in 1874, and published Red-Letter Days Abroad in 1884. He turned his experiences into a series of popular lectures delivered throughout North America. These lectures were periodically published in book form as John L. Stoddard's Lectures and eventually numbered ten volumes and five supplements (1897-1898). [3 ] The books include numerous illustrations derived from the immense
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