Author: Lord Dufferin
Title: Letters from High Latitudes; Being Some Account of a Voyage in the Schooner Yacht "Foam," 85 O.M. To Iceland, Jan Mayen & Spitzbergen, in 1856
Description: London, John Murray, 1857. Cloth. An early edition of this popular travel book recounting Lord Dufferin's voyages to Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen, in the original cloth. The third edition of this work, published in the same year as the first. In the publisher's original cloth binding. 'Letters from High Latitudes' is a travel book from British public servant and prominent member of the Victorian society, Lord Dufferin. It tells of his journey to Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen in the schooner Foam. The book became extremely successful due to its lively and witty commentary, with some regarding it as the prototype of the comic travelogue. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and ten monochrome plates, one of which is folding. With a folding chart and three maps to the rear, two of which are folding. Collated, complete. With a sixteen-page catalogue of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. With notable rubbing, bumping and marks to the extremities. With scattered discolouration to the cloth. Bookplate of one Frank T. Paul to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with odd spots, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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