To Iceland in a Yacht.
Book Description
First edition. 8vo. pp. ix, 153; frontis. and 10 autotype plates, 2 folding plans; one plate sometime loose with minor soiling to margins (now reinserted), previous owner’s bookplate, else very good in the original cloth, gilt. A presentation copy from the author, inscribed “To Dr. Samuel Ferguson with kind regards R. Angus Smith a merely private book not published”.
Dealer Notes
An account of a voyage from Scotland to Iceland aboard the Nyanza, with a company that included her owner James Young and four of his children, Agnes Livingstone (daughter of the explorer David Livingstone), and the writer.
Author
Smith, R. Angus.
Date
May 1873
Binding
Original cloth, gilt
Publisher
Privately Printed by Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh
Condition
See description
Pages
pp. ix, 153
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