A Description of the Feroe [Faroe] Islands, Containing an Account of their Situation, Climate, and Productions de Landt, G - 1810

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810 A fair copy of the first English translation in the original publisher's paper and card binding with folding map and 2 plates. The binding, which was intended to be replaced by the new owner, is rubbed and worn and losing the paper surface to the boards. It is complete and currently sound. Internally there is an old signature to the front pastedown endpaper. Contents: folding map; title; author's preface pp ii-vii; errata 1p; contents list ix-xiv; text pp 1-426 finis; 2 plates of which one folding at the rear. Page edges are uncut. There is a small paper flaw hole in the margin of p vii; a slight mark in the margin of p 1; a small burn hole at p 43 affecting 2 letters of text; occasional turning to page corners; and some water staining to the bottom corners of both plates not affecting the image. There is a dark fleck in the paper at p 113 and a small round area of thin paper in the bottom margin of p 401. There is some old drawing and calculation on… Leer más

Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810 Translated from the Danish, this a an early study of the Faroes. Original full leather worn and marked, boards engraved in a net pattern, decorated spine worn top and tail, gilt all round, brown eps, marks of a removed plate, a small armorial plate, and the name plate of Scottish author Margaret Elphinstone to the front paste down, small name and address dated 1816 to prelims, fold-out map, engravings. Occasional foxing, but generally clean, tight, sound, good.