[Rarebooks] FS: MacKenzie's TRAVELS IN ICELAND, 1811, with maps and plates, some hand-colored

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  MacKENZIE,  Sir George Steuart. TRAVELS IN THE ISLAND OF  ICELAND
DURING  THE SUMMER OF THE YEAR MDCCCX. Edinburgh: Archibald  Constable
&  Co. 1811. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") in modern half  calf
and   marbled  boards;  xvii,  491,   [1]  pages.  Illustrated  with a
facsimile  letter,  text  engravings,  two  maps  (one  folding),  and
fifteen  plates  including  a  folding view  of  Reikiavik  and  eight
hand-colored   plates,  mostly  views.   Mackenzie,  a   distinguished
mineralogist,  traveled  with Drs. Henry Holland and  Richard  Bright.
Chapters  include  a  narrative of the voyage and travels as  well  as
those  on mineralogy, rural economy and commerce, zoology and  botany,
climate,  literature,  diseases,  government and laws,  and  religion.
Light foxing to some plates, mostly marginal. Near Fine       $1500.00
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