A tour through some of the islands of Orkney and Shetland, with a view chiefly to objects of natural history, but including also occasional remarks on the state of the inhabitants, their husbandry, and fisheries. With an appendix, containing observations, political and economical, on the Shetland islands; a sketch of their mineralogy, &c. &c
Neill, Patrick
Published by printed for A. Constable and Company, and John Murray, London, Edinburgh, 1806
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First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 239, [1]; original drab paper-covered boards, rebacked with a blue paper shelfback matching the original; large printed lending library label on the upper cover for "William's Library/ Eastern Corner / of Assembly Rooms / Cheltenham" (bearing a bust of Shakespeare); boards worn and soiled with small cracks at the extremities; front free endpaper replaced, some foxing of the preliminaries, but the binding is sound and but for the little foxing the textblock is clean. University of Aberdeen bookplate marked withdrawn. William's Library (apparently founded by George Arthur Williams) was a circulating subscription library in Cheltenham. See A Catalogue of Williams's Library, Corner of Assembly Rooms, Cheltenham (Cheltenham, 1818) for a summary of the collection, rules and regulations, etc. Williams was also the author of A new guide to Cheltenham : being a complete history and description of that celebrated watering place (Cheltenham, 1825). Seller Inventory # 66929
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Title: A tour through some of the islands of Orkney...
Publisher: printed for A. Constable and Company, and John Murray, London, Edinburgh
Publication Date: 1806
Edition: 1st Edition