The Burton Holmes Lectures with Illusrations From Photographs by the Author Volume 1 Into Morocco, Fez, Into the Moorish Empire

Holmes, E., (Elias) Burton

Published by The Little-Preston Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Michigan, 1901

About this Item

Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed cypress-green cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. . Illustrated with colour platesb-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . Elias Burton Holmes was an American traveler, photographer and filmmaker, who coined the term "travelogue". Travel stories, slide shows, and motion pictures were all in existence before Holmes began his career, as was the profession of travel lecturer; but Holmes was the first person to put all of these elements together into documentary travel lectures. He recorded the earliest known footage of Japan and Korea, in 1899. No. 616 of a Ltd. Edition of 1,000 Copies.

Seller Inventory # 32147

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Burton Holmes Lectures with Illusrations From Photographs by the Author Volume 1 Into Morocco, Fez, Into the Moorish Empire
• Publisher: The Little-Preston Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Michigan
• Publication Date: 1901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Spine a trifle sunned
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Geography Travel Photography