Panama and the Sierras. A doctor's wander days. Illustrated from the author's original photographs.
Chicago: Riverton Press, 1900. Edition limited to 400 copies, 8vo, pp. 283; photographic frontispiece, pictorial title-page, and 22 photographic plates throughout; original maroon ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, teg and pages untrimmed; lightly worn at extremities with the spine ends just beginning to fray and an 1/8" break through the cloth and board at the bottom edge of front cover, but overall generally good and sound or better. Signed by the author at the limitation notice, a small, rectangular partially printed label mounted to front pastedown. Lydston (1857-1923) was a successful urologist in Chicago and beginning in 1880, a prolific contributor to medical journals and the author of widely ranging monographs--from Surgical Disease of the Genito-Urinary Tract (1899), to fiction works including Over the Hookah: Tales of a Talkative Doctor ( 1896), to this travel work of travel; to the play, The Blood of the Fathers (1912). Item #28073
Price: $75.00
