Notes From A Trip Around The World Carnegie, Andrew Highlands,Travel

First edition [Privately Printed] 8vo., plum bevelled cloth with black banded decoration with gilt titles on front panel and on spine. Inscribed by Carnegie on the title page 'Frank McCoy Esq with compliments of the Author'. clean and unfoxed pages, light shelfwear. Slight sunning to the spine. A good copy of a rare and fascinating work (first published for the public by Scribners of New York in 1884). It includes Carnegie's views on the development of Japan and China economically and politically with some astute observations on India. The quintessential businessman's eye view of the state of the world, following an eight month tour of the globe in 1878, is surprisingly full of warnings against the trappings of wealth: 'The rich are not to be envied, for truly "there is no purchase in money" of any real happiness. When used for our own gratification, it injures us; when used ostentatiously, it brings care; when hoarded, it narrows the soul. Nature has not provided a means by which any man can use riches for selfish purposes without suffering therefrom.'