Uno von Troil: Bref, rörande en resa til Island 1772. Uppsala: Magnus Swederus 1777. 8vo. Engraved title-page with engraved vignette, large folded engraved map of Iceland, 11 engraved plates of which 10 are folded, incl. Chart over Geyser. With old book plates. Bound in cont. half calf, spine and hinges repaired/renewed. Housed in slip case.
1st edition. Troil's important pioneering account of the island made during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, assisted among others by Dr. Solander and Dr. Uno von Troil; Banks and Solander were eminent naturalists who had sailed on Cook's first expedition to the South Seas, and they joined an excursion to the little-known and mysterious Iceland. Fiske 608.
Books and manuscripts, 21 June 2022
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