ANTIQUE (1920) TRAVEL BOOK, "SPANISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS," BY KATHERINE L. BATES.

A superbly written travel book on the Iberian Peninsula with loads of illustrations. The book is in excellent condition commensurate with age. The boards, binding, and leaves are excellent, almost as new for their age. A very handsome book.  
 
Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker.

Bates enjoyed close links with Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where she had graduated with a B.A., and later became a professor of English literature, helping to launch American literature as an academic specialty, and writing one of the first-ever college textbooks on it.