Optic, Oliver, DOWN THE RHINE; or, YOUNG AMERICA IN GERMANY. Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1869. 1st ed. red cloth hardcover with ornate black ink stamping w/gilt titling to spine and front board, illustrated, 8vo (6.750x4.750?), very good+/n.a., [4], 341pp., [2] adv. Slightest bit of bumping to board edges, very lightly age-toned, otherwise remarkably clean. Written to be read by young boys in the mid-19th century the entire Young American Abroad Series is both a story of travel and adventure from around the globe. This book the last book of the first series of six, is a fascinating journey into the Germany of 1869. It like taking a time capsule back to another day. Superbly written, developed and presented, we have here quite the distinctive book indeed and yet another vibrant sector of Captured Tyme.