![[Item #87669] Fifty Years of Travel by Land, Water and Air. With 89 Illustrations [Inscribed Presentation Copy]. Frank Hedges BUTLER.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/87669.jpg?auto=webp&v=1761263494)
Fifty Years of Travel by Land, Water and Air. With 89 Illustrations [Inscribed Presentation Copy]
London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1921). Second impression. Inscribed on front endpaper: "Colonel Eric Dillon...with the Author's best wishes," dated October 9, 1922. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover with applied front-cover illustration; 421pp; frontispiece and 67 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Mild aging and wear; rust-stain and offsetting to front endpapers from a paper-clipped news clipping; Very Good.
A charming account of his world travels by Frank Hedges Butler (1855-1928), a wine merchant and intrepid traveller, the founder of the Aero Club of Great Britain in 1901 and a pioneering automobilist who purchased one of the first production motorcars in England (a Benz "Motor Velocipede") in 1897. The inscribee is Eric Dillon, 19th Viscount Dillon, an officer in the British Army in WW1 and recipient of the DSO and the Belgian Croix de Guerre.
Price: $60.00