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Auction #118 begins on 03 Oct 2024

Bisiker (W.)

Across Iceland

Published: Edward Arnold, London, 1902

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $85

Approximately:

Estimate: $100/125

Bidding opens: 3 Oct 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 10 Oct 16:30 GMT

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Published by Edward Arnold, London, 1902. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. xi + [2], 236pp + 32pp (publisher's catalogue). Frontispiece. 59 b/w text illustrations. 2 folding maps; 2 in text. Original gilt scarlet cloth gilt with pack horses and horseman on the front board. Fade to the spine as usual. Internally fine. Previous owner's signature on the fep. Scarce.

An account of a journey across central Iceland in the summer of 1900 by a party of five men and a woman. The author and expedition leader, William Bisiker, was an English geographer associated with the Oxford School of Geography.

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 8vo


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