A description of the Isles of Orkney
By: by the Rev. James Wallace. Reprinted from the original edition of 1693, with illustrative notes from an interleaved copy in the library of the University of Edinburgh, formerly the property of Malcolm Laing, the Scottish historian, together with the additions made by the author's son, in the edition of 1700. Ed. by John Small.
Contributors: Small, John, 1828-1886, editor.
Publisher: W. Brown
Published: 1883
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Orkney (Scotland) -- Description and travel; Thule (Greenland)
Notes: Includes reproductions of original t.-p.: A description of the Isles of Orkney; by Master James Wallace ... To which is added, An essay concerning the Thule of the ancients. Edinburgh, Printed by J. Reid, 1693.
"An essay concerning the Thule of the ancients, where it is shewen that the Thule mentioned by the Roman writers, was the north east part of Britain, lying over against the Isles of Orkney ... Edinburgh, Printed by J. Reid, 1693.": 1 l., p. [113]-149.