Letters on Iceland
Subtitle: containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history, antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs, customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, &c. &c. made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, assisted by Dr. Solander, Dr. J. Lind, Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and ingenious gentlemen
By: written by Uno von Troil ; to which are added the letters of Dr. Ihre and Dr. Bach [i. e. Bäck] to the author, concerning the Edda and the elephantiasis of Iceland ; also Professor Bergman's curious observations and chemical examination of the lava and other substances produced on the island ; with a new map of the island, and representation of the remarkable boiling fountain called by the inhabitants geyser
Contributors: Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820; Bäck, Abraham, 1713-1795; Ihre, Johan, 1707-1780; Bergman, Torbern, 1735-1784; Dixon, Susanna Dorothy, 1757-1822
Publisher: Printed by G. Perrin, for S. Price, W. and H. Whitestone, J. Potts [and eight others]
Published: 1780
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Iceland -- Description and travel; Iceland -- Bibliography
Work titles: Bref rörande en resa till Island.
Notes: Translated from the German version of J.G.P. Möller, by Mrs. Susanna Dorothy (Forster) Dixon

Signatures: a in 4, b in 8, c in 2, A-2B in 8s

"Catalogue of writers on Iceland", 120 entries: p. xviii-xxvi

ESTC N000138

Spec Collection copy lacking map