The Leisure Hour for 1865. London. Paternoster Row. 1865. 33-828pp.

Wonderful content and beautifully illustrated throughout. Contents include:

The California Overland Express. Longest Stage-Ride in the World [extensive series with superb engravings]

Morse's Telegraphy

Full page color lithograph of The Tuileries in France

Full page engraving of Handel [Handel's Messiah]

Rope-Trick Conjurors [Magic]

Life in Egypt by Missionary, M. L. Whately

An Adventure with Mexican Hogs [Peccary, engraving of one killing a rattlesnake]

The Peking [China] Gazette [Great Illustrations]

Adventure with Pirates

Wreck of the "Stanley" Steamer [with full page illustration]

Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

To Caribo and Back. An Emigrant's Journey to the Gold-Fields in British Columbia. [series from Mr. W. Champness' Journal; unpublished elsewhere; wonderful engravings]

The Ainos of Yesso, Japan [absolutely superb engravings; series of articles]

South American Beef

Adventures Ashore and Afloat [Australia, Aborigines, Gold Fields, etc.]

A Rattlesnake at the Diggins and Other Recollections of Shasta Plains [California]

Adventure with the Indians of Oregon [engravings]

Life of Francois Fenelon

A Week in the Austrian Tyrol [engravings]

Wanderings in Central Asia [illustrated] by Arminius Vambery

My First Buffalo Hunt

The Todas of the Blue Mountains

Yuen-Ming-Yuen, China [War in China]

Full page color lithograph of various phases of "Eclipses of the Sun"

The Transatlantic Telegraph

The Shangai Tea-Gardens

Full page engraving "Napoleon in Exile." 

Sewing Machines for the Blind

A Christmas Issue with Lots of Christmas Content, etc.

Large 4to, near folio, rubbed, part of spine relaid. Lacking the first issue, but else complete. A few closed tears and some handling.