POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. COMBINING A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL SUMMER RETREATS IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THE ROUTES OF TRAVEL LEADING TO THEM ... ILLUSTRATED BY ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO WOOD-CUTS BY THE BEST ENGRAVERS, MANY OF THEM FROM ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY THE AUTHOR. Boston: John B. Bachelder, Publisher, 41-45 Franklin Street. (At Lee & Shepard's.), 1875. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 361 [362-364: ads], frontispiece, 151 illustrations in the text, folded map, publisher's decorated green cloth stamped in black and gold, brown coated endpapers. Third edition, revised. The third edition of Bachelder's "gazetteer of pleasure travel," which, "although it may give much useful information, it is not intended to take the place of a guide" (preface, p. 4). Following an introductory chapter, the work describes thirty-one "pleasure routes" organized from east to west by regions accessed by various railway routes (Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad, Eastern Railroad, Portland and Ogdensburg Railway, etc.). Emphasis is eastern and midwestern travel. The single chapter devoted to western travel includes brief descriptions of Yellowstone National Park and California's Yosemite and the Calaveras Grove of Big Trees. The White Mountains are described in various itineraries, as well as on pages 26-32. Lake George, Lake Champlain, and the Adirondacks, pages 177-182. Of the Adirondacks Bachelder remarks: "The Adirondacks of New York have sprung into sudden and universal fame and favoritism. The region has all the novelty of a primeval land, diversified by every variety of landscape and unsearched solitudes; and has the freshness and rare American novelty of guides, who alone know the secret of this new paradise" (p. 178). The fourth edition, published in 1876, appears to be the last edition of Bachelder's POPULAR RESORTS. John B. Bachelder (1825–1894) was a nineteenth-century artist, lithographer, and historian of the American Civil War, especially the Battle of Gettysburg. Cloth rubbed along the lower edges, a clean, tight, very good copy. (#178969).
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"THIRD EDITION /REVISED" printed in gold on the front cover.