[i]-xvi, [17]-536 pp. Twelve folding lithographic charts, some in red and black. (8vo) 10¾x7, original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt lettered spine. First Edition.

"The first work of importance on the climatology of any portion of America, it is so carefully done that all the subsequent works on the subject have confirmed Blodget's major conclusions." (DAB) This copy is boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Julius Brenchley, with his bookplate on the pastedown. Julius Lucius Brenchley (1816-1873) was a celebrated English traveller and writer who between 1847 and 1870 toured the Americas--including the Far West, the Northwest, Hawaii, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, and Chile--Algeria, Morocco, Spain, Sicily, India, the Himalayas, Ceylon, China, Japan, Russia, Poland, New Zealand, the South Seas, and many other nations and regions. He is probably best known for A Journey to Great Salt Lake City (London, 1861), written in collaboration with his fellow-traveller Jules Remy. Before his untimely death Brenchley bequeathed his library and collections to the town of Maidstone, and the discreet embossment of the Maidstone Public Library appears on the title-page of this volume. Sabin 5950