Rev Spence Hardy (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. . vi, [2], 354, +4 adverts: complete with the 12 plates (including the guarded frontis). The text is clean, a few of the plates have some very slight foxing, and the original yellow endpapers are present. There are no markings. c.19x11cms, in the original binding of textured green boards, spine titled gilt, bright and firm. The upper board is clean, the spine is slightly sunned, ends very slightly blunted and very slightly scuffed, and the lower board is slightly marked, and its bottom corner knocked. The author, a Wesleyan Missionary, gives an account of his travels through Arabia, Egypt, the Holy Land, the Isles of the Mediterranean, Greece, and Italy, on his way back from a posting in Ceylon. A very nice copy of a title now rare. Very good indeed. …