Cricket match... America's Cup race...

Item # 703254

September 26, 1885

HARPER'S WEEKLY, New York, September 26, 1885 There are a number of fine prints in this issue including a full front page: "Canon Farrar" with a related article inside.
Other prints inside include: "The Dead Jumbo" the elephant; a Thomas Nast print: "We Have Not Given Up Ruling the Waves Yet"; a one-third page: "Cricket Match between the Gentlemen of Philadelphia & the English Visiting Eleven".
A nice, dramatic, and tipped-in (no binding holes) doublepage centerfold: "The First Day's Race for the 'America's Cup--The Genesta Rounding the Light-Ship" plus another full page print: "The Second Day's Race for the America's Cup--The Run Down the Wind".
Also within is a full page: "The Massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming" and two additional, small, Thomas Nast political cartoons.
Sixteen pages, nice condition.