Description

• Fully titled: The Great Siberian Railway From St Petersburg To Pekin
• With 29 photographic plates [taken by the author] plus fold-out route map at rear [in fine condition]
• Early travel book on the world’s longest train route – at the time of writing, passengers were required to transfer to a steam ship to cross Lake Baikal before continuing the train journey
• Shoemaker was a noted American travel writer who also wrote of early automobile exploits
• A number of books about the Trans-Siberian Railway were written in these early years & helped to create a reputation for Russia as pioneering & industrially proficient
• First Printing [G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1903]; x, 243, [blank, 2 Publisher ads, 2 blank] pages; yellow cloth, black titling on front board & spine, Imperial Standard of the Emperor of Russia on front, boards marked, general grubbiness, sticker remnant on spine, publisher name a little rubbed, top edge gilt, inner hinge split, label [ex-lib?] removed from rear free endpaper, a very good copy
• Erratum slip pasted on p171; plate facing pp104 damaged at base [appears to have come loose at some stage, now repasted in situ]