Lot 226: World Travel Books

World Travel, Three volumes of letters from Willard Evans Hoyt to his children, illustrated with the compiler's photos (about 300 in total), and one volume of Memograms by Martin and Flora Nash. A) A Winter's Wanderings Around the World. Letters Written to My Children on the 7th Annual World Cruise of the S.S. Empress Australia from New York to San Francisco December 2, 1929 to March 30, 1930. 56 pages. B) A Second Winter's Wanderings [S.S. Mariposa to the Antipodes, Dutch East Indies, and Orient Dec. 5, 1935-April 28, 1936]. 55 pages. C) A Third Winter's Wanderings: Letters Written to My Children While on a Journey in and About Egypt, South Africa & London. January 5th. to April 26th 1937. 78 pages. D) Martin and Flora Nash DeMuth, Memograms: Stenciled Recollections of a World Cruise on the S.S. Empress of Australia December 2, 1929 to April 17, 1930. Bound in half leather. "Pictorial memoranda originated and produced on board by special cruise artists." Drawings were produced and issued daily and bound after the cruise was completed.

Price Realized: $700

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