Author: Donovan, E.
Title: DESCRIPTIVE EXCURSIONS THROUGH SOUTH WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE in the Year 1804, and the Four Preceding Summers.
Description: Printed for the Author ..., 1805. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xxvii + 404pp. + vi + pp.(xxv-vii) + 396pp. 31 uncoloured plates in stipple and aquatint. [Vol. 2. with contents of vol. 1 supplied (in duplication of vol. 1 and without last 3pp. of contents of vol. 2.)] Some light browning and sl. offsetting, ex.-libris George Crompton and with the signature of John Bell Crompton, contemporary marbled boards with vellum corners, nicely rebacked in modern calf with intricate gilt filleting and motifs and gilt lettered title labels to spines. ¶ Abbey Scenery 518. Edward Donovan (1768-1837), naturalist and author. He travelled through Monmouthshire and South Wales in the summers of 1800 and the succeeding years, publishing an account of his travels in 1805 illustrated from his own sketches. The first excursion took him many hundred miles in various directions, and he surveyed the country from Bristol to Pembroke; his observations during the time are among the most useful of his works.

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; WALES


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