IDA PFEIFFER - Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North

Ingram, Cooke, and Co. 1852. Hardcover. 'With numerous explanatory notes, eight tinted engravings ( all present), an essay on Icelandic poetry from the French of M Bergman, a translation of the Icelandic poem The Voluspa and a brief sketch of Icelandic history'. Decorative embossed boards of the National Illustrated Library a little worn and marked, gold decorated spine rather rubbed, worn top and tail, contemporary inscription to the front past-down from a ship at Bilbao and to the ffep from Glasgow, eps much marked, front hinge weak but still holding, occasional foxing and grubby marks throughout, good. Good.

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