x, [2], 316 + [4] ad pp. With 8 plates from photographs; 3 folding color maps. 8¾x5½, original gilt-pictorial dark blue cloth lettered in black on the front cover, in gilt on the spine. First Edition.

Presentation copy inscribed on the half-title, "To Doctor Hyde, with the author's compliments, July 16, 1890. W. Henry Barneby...Herefordshire." Entertaining observations including crossing the plains and Rockies on the Canadian Pacific Railway; a sojourn in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia; by steamer across the Pacific to Yokohama; five chapters on Japan; then Hong Kong, Canton, Ceylon and home.