Two grand tours of 75 days through the southern states, Mexico and California, with visits to Cincinnati, Louisville, Birmingham, Montgomery, Pass Christian, New Orleans, Houston, Galveston, San Antonio, and El Paso; an extended round of travel by special trains through Mexico, with halts in its chief cities and places of historic and picturesque interest, including Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Leon, Silao, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Orizaba, Puebla, the Pyramid of Cholula, Tiaxcala, Guadalajara, Chihuahua, the grand scenic points on the Mexican Railway, and the City of Mexico, where eight days will be passed; and a subsequent trip through the most delightful regions of the Pacific Coast, and homeward through Utah, Colorado, and the grand cañons, gorges, and passes of the Rocky Mountains, with visits to Riverside, San Diego, Coronado Beach, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Redondo Beach, Santa Barbara, San Jose, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, San Rafael, Salt Lake City, Manitou Springs, Denver, Niagara Falls, etc. The journey to be made in a magnificent train of vestibuled Pullman Palace Cars, inclusive of a Pullman Palace Dining-car. First party to leave New York Tuesday, January 13; and to return Saturday, March 28. Second party to leave New York Tuesday, February 3; and to return Saturday, April 18. Conductor in charge, Mr. Charles H. Wilson. W. Raymond, I. A. Whitcomb, 296 Washington St. (opposite School St.), Boston, Mass. Raymond & Whitcomb, 257 Broadway, New York. Boston: American Printing & Engraving Co., 50 Arch St., n.d. [1890?]. 11.2x14 cm, pp. [1] 2-192, original pictorial wrappers printed light green and dark green, side stapled. First edition. Cover title reads: "Raymond's vacation excursions all travelling expenses included. 1891. New Orleans, Mexico and California. Three grand tours, Jan. 13, Feb. 3 & Mar. 10." The woodcut illustration on the rear cover is captioned: "The Cathedral City of Mexico." Promotes the 1891 seventh season of Mexico tours. The third 1891 tour advertised on the front cover, a forty-day tour of the Southern states and Mexico leaving March 10, 1891 and returning April 18, 1891, is described on pages 161-179. The descriptions of the three tours include day-by-day itineraries as well as detailed information on the towns, cities, accommodations and points of interest, as well as clothing to bring, books on the regions to be visited, etc. There is a brief mention of travel to the Yosemite Valley and Big Tree groves by way of Brenda and Raymond on pages 145-146. Not in Rocq (1970). Wrappers a bit tanned and dusty, wrappers also a bit brittle with some loss at edges (mostly to the rear wrapper), some internal tanning to about half of the pulpy paper gatherings, a sound, good copy. (#166474).
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