Author: H. M. Doughty
Title: Our Wherry in Wendish Lands
Description: London, Jarrold & Sons, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of H. M. Doughty's illustrated account of a voyage through the Netherlands and Northern Germany. The scarce first edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, numerous vignettes, and four folding colour plates. Collated, complete.Including descriptions of Eastphalia, Mecklenburg, Bohemian and Saxon Switzerland, and Meissen and Dresden.With an advertisement leaf to the year.The work of Rear-Admiral Henry Montagu Doughty, who went on to be an officer of the Royal Navy during the First World War. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with small losses of cloth in these regions. Front joint starting, with board detached to lower third. Rear hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, but generally clean. Small repair to one folding map. Good . Ill.: The Author's Daughters. Good .

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