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MACKENZIE, GEORGE STEUART. Travels in the Island of Iceland during the Summer of the Year MDCCCX. Second edition. Edinburgh (printed for Archibald Constable and Company, and others) 1812.

4:o (c. 265x205 mm.). (7), viii-xv, (5), (3), 4-481, (1 blank), (1), 486-491, (1, Directions to the binder) pp. The Pages 483-84 probably bound at the beginning. With 3 engraved maps (2 of Iceland of which 1 larger and folding, slightly coloured, offsetting, foxing, larger with repairs to folds), 8 aquatina engraved plates (some slight foxing), 6 engraved plates (1 folding, Reikiavik, partly foxed, some dampstains, mostly marginal), 1 engraved musical plate, 15 engravings in text, 4 folding printed tables (all, some foxing).
Modern purple half calf, gilt spine with gilt title, yellow edges. Halftitle and title with some restorations and minor repairs to margins and one corner, Some foxing or spotting to text, 2 pages with small repairs to margins.

Abbey Travel, 160 (first edition published in 1811). Tooley, 314.
Plates depicting icelandic scenery (the vulcano Hekla, Reykjavik), costume plates and geological phenomena.

Provenance: Sten Ringselle (1949-2017), Swedish antiquarian bookdealer who in 1992 opened his shop Antiquaria in Gothenburg.

Auktionsnummer:

6390

Datum:

2017-11-21