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Hard cover, 8vo., 646pp. In publisher's brown cloth binding, board edges beveled, with gold decoration of a sailing ship to front cover, and gold lettering to spine. Illustrated with frontispiece and other 32 full-page engravings. Condition: Very Good, with only minor rubbing to corners, and crimping at head and tail of spine. Front board is clean and bright. Front hinge cracked, but holding firm; pages are mildly age toned. The frontispiece portrait of Eben Tourjée is clean and bright, and although it has a tissue guard, and there is some offset to the title page as can be seen in the photo. ** The engraved illustrations are wonderful: Edinburgh Castle, Joan of Arc's Tower in Rouen, Sainte Chapelle Paris, Lucerne and Mont Pilatus, The Arena of the Colosseum, Heidelberg and the Old Castle, Grindelwald, and Ehrenbreitstein etc.. ** This Musical and Cultural Tour of Europe was led by Dr Eben Tourjée (1834-1891), co-founder of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. The group departed from New York aboard the Steamship Devonia. This vessel was, unusually, outfitted with a music room, containing "growing plants and singing birds," in addition to a piano-forte, organ, and "a well-filled library." (p. 5) Contains a mix of local histories, and anecdotes. An Appendix lists the names and hometowns of the travelers: a group of teachers, ministers, and other "brain-workers," recruited by Mr. Tourjée. "The volume is intended as a pleasant souvenir of a delightful round of European travel, in which nearly three hundred Americans -- a larger excursion party than ever before went from our shores--had, at least in part, a common experience." (p. vi) OCLC 3838274.
Ref: MUSI 8733
$95.00