A Description of the Isles of Orkney. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1693. 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 by William Brown, Edinburgh,, 1883

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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).

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A Description of the Isles of Orkney. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1693. 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
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WALLACE Rev. James
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William Brown, Edinburgh,
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1883
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Hardcover
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