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Wallace Rev. James

A Description of the Isles of Orkney. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1693. With Illustrative Notes from an interleaved Copy in the Library of the University of Edinburgh. Edited by John Small. [Facsimile re-issue]. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FACSIMILE EDITION

William Brown, Edinburgh, 1883

326,60 €

Island Books

(Devon, Reino Unido)

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Año de publicación
1883
Autor
Wallace Rev. James
Editores
William Brown, Edinburgh
Materia
topography, scotland, orkney islands, orkneys, shetland, ultima thule, james wallace
Idiomas
Inlgés

Descripción

8vo., Sole Edition thus, on laid paper, with folding map as frontispiece, 2 folding plates and folding map; navy buckram, gilt back, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), slightly pulled at head of backstrip else a near fine copy. Includes 'An Explication of some Norish Words used in Orkney and Zetland' and 'An Essay concerning the Thule of the Ancients' (1693). THIS HIGH QUALITY FACSIMILE IS ITSELF EXTREMELY SCARCE. Anderson, p.402 (recording the first edition).