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MACKENZIE, SIR GEORGE STEUART. Travels in the Island of Iceland during the Summer of the Year MDCCCX. Edinburgh, Th. Allan für A. Constable and others, 1811.

4to (265x205 mm.). (7), viii-xvii, (1 blank, 2), (3), 4-491, (1, Directions to the binder) pp. Lacks half-title. 8 coloured aquatinta plates on india-paper and mounted, 5 engraved plates of which 1 folding, 3 engraved maps of which one large and folding with colour (Map of the southwest coast of Iceland), as well as 14 wood engraved vignettes and 4 folding letterpress tables and 1 page of printed music (complete, ordinary plates partly foxed and browned, the large map of Iceland with some folds, 1 repaired tear, 1 minor tear, and offsetting and foxing).
Contemporary half calf, rebacked with old gilt spine, partly worn and corners bumped and partly damaged, inner hinges reinforced. Bookseller´s label S. Wreford, Crediton. Text with some foxing, 2 pages with paper loss of corners, 1 small marginal tear, 1 page with repaired marginal tear.

First edition. Classic travel to Iceland. Already in 1812 a second edition was published.
Abbey Travel, 160. Tooley, 314.
Plates depicting icelandic scenery such as the vulcano Hecla, Krisuvik, Eyafialla Iokul, Reykjavik, costume plates and geological phenomena.
Mackenzie (1780-1848), chemist, geologist, and antiquary who travelled to Iceland in 1810 with the physicians Henry Holland and Richard Bright.

Auktionsnummer:

6063

Datum:

2020-12-10