A Tour Round Ireland, Through the Sea-Coast Counties, In the Autumn of 1835

Barrow, John

Verlag: John Murray, London, 1836

Beschreibung

pp. xi, 378, 38 (Appendix), with folding map, 8 plates, and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine, new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page, frontispiece, and some plates foxed (as often found), the remainder of the text quite clean. Map has a section meanuring about 1.5 x 3 inches missing from lower left, with some loss of content. A good reference copy. The author was the son of Sir John Barrow, who traveled and worked in China and South Africa and served in the British Admiralty, where he was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of exploration and discovery. The younger man followed in his father's footsteps as a traveler and writer, producing popular and well-received works on his travels in Ireland, Iceland, Northern Europe, and Austria, Lombardy, and Bavaria. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 21534

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Tour Round Ireland, Through the Sea-Coast ...

Verlag: John Murray, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1836

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Edition.