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Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year
Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year
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Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Company, 1811. First edition, 4to (28.8 x 22cm), 20th-century half calf, half-title, 3 engraved maps (one folding and hand-coloured), 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 6 engraved plates, 15 engravings in text, 4 folding tables, tissue-guards, spotting to engraved plates and to maps, closed handling tear to folding map [Abbey Travel 160; Tooley 313]; Beechey, Frederick William. A Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, performed in His Majesty's Ship Dorothea and Trent. London: Richard Bentley, 1843. First edition, 8vo (22.2 x 13.6cm), 20th-century half calf, ix [3] 351 [1] pp., 4 engraved plates including frontispiece, 2 folding lithographic panoramas, folding lithographic chart, unopened towards rear, gift inscription dated 1857 to dedication leaf verso, marginal damp-staining to engraved plates, one panorama with short closed tear at fold [Arctic Bibliography 1230; Sabin 4329]; Scoresby, William. Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition, 8vo (21 x 12.7cm), 20th-century half calf, 2 engraved folding maps, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), half-title discarded, spotting and browning, folding map with repaired closed tear [Sabin 78171]; Henderson, Ebenezer. Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, during the Years 1814 and 1815. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, 1818. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, gilt-stamps of the Northern Lighthouse Board to spines, half-titles discarded, title-pages transposed and spines misnumbered, engraved folding map (backed on linen), 15 engraved or etched plates (including 'Icelandic Female in her Bridal Dress', not listed), directions to the binder leaf, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-pages; Boswell, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson. London: Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, half-title, errata leaf, I5 in first state, Q7 and U6 in second state, contemporary ownership inscription ('C Glencairn, Moffat') to title-page, closed marginal tear in R2, a few stains [ESTC T53594; Rothschild 456]; Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII. Chester: John Monk, 1774. First edition, 4to (24.3 x 18.5cm), engraved title-page, 44 engraved plates, ink-stamps of Baillie's Institution, Glasgow, deaccession stamp to title-page), spotting; and 2 others (these not collated: Sir John Richardson, The Polar Regions, Edinburgh, 1861, first edition, 8vo, contemporary prize-binding of green calf gilt, half-title, engraved folding map; James Wilson, A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles, Edinburgh, 1842, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, plates and map) (10)
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Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year

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