To Iceland in a Yacht.

Name: To Iceland in a Yacht.
Author: Smith, R. Angus.

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

Price: £375.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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