Travels in the island of Iceland during the summer of the year MDCCCX

Responsibility: By Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, baronet ...
Edition: 2d ed.
Imprint: Edinburgh, Printed [by T. Allan and company] for A. Constable and company; [etc., etc.] 1812.
Physical description: 4 p. l., [vii]-xv, 491, [1] p. illus., 15 pl. (partly col.) maps (1 fold.) fold. tables. 29 cm.

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Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator: Mackenzie, George Steuart, Sir, 1780-1848.
Contributor: Holland, Henry, Sir, 1788-1873.; Bright, Richard, 1789-1858.; Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865.

Subjects

Subject: Iceland.; Iceland > Description and travel.

Bibliographic information

Publication date: 1812
Note: The "Preliminary dissertation on the history and literature of Iceland," the chapters, "Present state of education and literature," "On the government, laws and religion," and appendix I, "On the diseases of the Icelanders," are by Sir Henry Holland; the chapter, "Zoology, and botany," is by Dr. Richard Bright; and appendix II, "Icelandic flora," is by W. J. Hooker.
Note: T.p., p. 3-4, 101-102 mutilated (no loss of text)

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