The Leisure Hour for 1865. London. Paternoster Row. 1865. 33-828pp.
Wonderful content and beautifully illustrated throughout. Contents include:
The California Overland Express. Longest Stage-Ride in the World [extensive series with superb engravings]
Morse's Telegraphy
Full page color lithograph of The Tuileries in France
Full page engraving of Handel [Handel's Messiah]
Rope-Trick Conjurors [Magic]
Life in Egypt by Missionary, M. L. Whately
An Adventure with Mexican Hogs [Peccary, engraving of one killing a rattlesnake]
The Peking [China] Gazette [Great Illustrations]
Adventure with Pirates
Wreck of the "Stanley" Steamer [with full page illustration]
Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
To Caribo and Back. An Emigrant's Journey to the Gold-Fields in British Columbia. [series from Mr. W. Champness' Journal; unpublished elsewhere; wonderful engravings]
The Ainos of Yesso, Japan [absolutely superb engravings; series of articles]
South American Beef
Adventures Ashore and Afloat [Australia, Aborigines, Gold Fields, etc.]
A Rattlesnake at the Diggins and Other Recollections of Shasta Plains [California]
Adventure with the Indians of Oregon [engravings]
Life of Francois Fenelon
A Week in the Austrian Tyrol [engravings]
Wanderings in Central Asia [illustrated] by Arminius Vambery
My First Buffalo Hunt
The Todas of the Blue Mountains
Yuen-Ming-Yuen, China [War in China]
Full page color lithograph of various phases of "Eclipses of the Sun"
The Transatlantic Telegraph
The Shangai Tea-Gardens
Full page engraving "Napoleon in Exile."
Sewing Machines for the Blind
A Christmas Issue with Lots of Christmas Content, etc.
Large 4to, near folio, rubbed, part of spine relaid. Lacking the first issue, but else complete. A few closed tears and some handling.
