A summer in Iceland . Translated by Rev. M.R. Barnard .

PAIJKULL, Carl Wilhelm.

Published by London, Chapman and Hall, 1868., 1868

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8vo, pp. ix, [3], 364; with frontispiece, 5 plates, and several illustrations in the text; very occasional small marginal tears or chips, upper corner of last leaf repaired; very good in recent half calf, marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt with lettering-piece; embossed blind stamp of 'Nahant Public Library 1872' to pp. 9-16.First edition in English of this account of Iceland by the Swedish geologist Paijkull (1836-1869), translated by the Scandinavian scholar and clergyman Mordaunt Barnard (1828-1906). 'Iceland is a country abounding with legends and myths, which tradition and the hand of nature have each done their part in recording. Her people . though few in number, occupy a place among the enlightened families of the world; while her Jökulls, or ice mountains, her warm springs, her volcanoes and streams of lava, her sandy plains and rapid rivers . afford an inexhaustible field for wonderment and for investigation' (pp. 1-2). Seller Inventory # T5058.368

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Title: A summer in Iceland . Translated by Rev. M.R...

Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, 1868.

Publication Date: 1868

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition