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Franklin Classics. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2018. Facsimileof 1780 edition. Softcover. 0342408844 . 434 pages .

Nabu Press, 2010-04-20. Paperback. Good.

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Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-08-15. Paperback. Good.

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Letters on Iceland: Containing Observations Made During a Voyage Undertaken in the Year 1772 by Joseph Banks, Esq..

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Paperback / softback. New. Swedish archbishop Uno von Troil (1746-1803) accompanied the famous naturalist Sir Joseph Banks on an expedition to Iceland in 1772. This book, first published in 1780, is a collection of the amiable and descriptive letters von Troil wrote, documenting his observations on the island's geography, culture and religion.

Cambridge University Press, 2011-06-02. 1. Paperback. Used:Good.

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Dublin: G Perrin for S Price, W and H Whitestone, J Potts, T Walker, C Jenkin et al, 1780 A fair copy of the 1st Dublin edition of Uno von Troil's account of his visit to Iceland with Joseph Banks and Dr Solander in 1772. It was first published in Uppsala in 1777 and the English version is taken from the German translation of 1779. Dr Von Troil studied divinity, oriental and northern languages and antiquities. He was introduced to Dr Banks when he was staying in England. The book is in the form of correspondence and contains a wealth of observation from the visit. It is in a contemporary full calf binding with gilt lined raised bands to the spine and red title label. There is leather loss to the spine which has also lost the head and tail band. The front board has a bumped top corner and a paler section towards the bottom of the board. There are a couple of scuffed areas which might have been wormed at one point. Bottom corner turned. The back board has a small area of leather loss at the bottom close… Read More

Dublin: Printed by G. Perrin, For. Price, and W. and H. Whitestone..., 1780. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo, 204 x 124 mms., pp. xxvi, 400, engraved frontispiece of geyser, folding engraved map, attractively bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt border on covers, spine ornately gilt, red morocco label; spine rubbed, corners very slightly worn, but a very good copy, with the armorial bookplate of the Lyons Library on the front paste-down end-paper. This English translation of von Troil's work, originally published in Swedish at Uppsala in 1777, was translated from the German of by J. G. P. Moller by Susanna Dorothy Dixon (1757 – 1822). See Pam Perkins, Iceland and Eighteenth-Century Travel and Exploration [online], Iceland and Eighteenth-Century Travel and Exploration (2012): The English translation of Uno von Troil's Letters on Iceland–the only published account of Banks' expedition–foregrounds the matter-of-fact rather than the literary, addressing matters… Read More