A Description of the Isles of Orkney
WALLACE, Rev. James
With Illustrative Notes from an interleaved Copy in the Library of the University of Edinburgh. Edited by John Small. [Facsimile re-issue].
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FACSIMILE EDITION
Published: William Brown Edinburgh, 1883
Stock code: 11375
Price: £284.00
8vo., Sole Edition thus, on laid paper, with folding map as frontispiece, 2 folding plates and folding map; navy buckram, gilt back, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), slightly pulled at head of backstrip else a near fine copy.
Includes 'An Explication of some Norish Words used in Orkney and Zetland' and 'An Essay concerning the Thule of the Ancients' (1693). THIS HIGH QUALITY FACSIMILE IS ITSELF EXTREMELY SCARCE. Anderson, p.402 (recording the first edition).