[JOSEPH BANKS] Letters on Iceland. (First English edition)

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Containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history; antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs; customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, c. c. Made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, Esq. P.R.S. assisted by Dr. Solander, F.R.S. Dr. J. Lind, F.R.S. Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and ingenious gentlemen. Written by Uno von Troil, D. D., First Chaplain to his Swedish Majesty, Almoner of the Swedish Orders of Knighthood, and Member of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. To which are added the letters of Dr. Ihre and Dr. Bach to the author, concerning the Edda and the Elephantiasis of Iceland: also Professor Bergman s curious observations and chemical examination of the lava and other substances produced on the island. With a new map of the island, and a representation of the remarkable boiling fountain called by the inhabitants Geyser . London : W. Richardson, J. Robson and N. Conant, 1780. First English edition. Octavo, contemporary full polished calf, spine in compartments with raised bands, red morocco title-label with gilt lettering; bookplate to front pastedown of George Arnold Esq., one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Chamber , the engraved plate of Geyser which is sometimes found as the frontispiece bound in facing p. 245, at the letter which describes it, pp xxvi; 400; with a folding map of Iceland; internally crisp and clean, a fine copy. After accompanying Cook on h

• Binding: Hardcover

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