or Stranger's Guide to the Western Isles & Highlands of Scotland,including the voyage from London to Leith;
with an excursion through the North of Ireland, to the Giant's Causeway, etc.
containing also, a Description of the Lakes of Cumberland. Third and Improved Edition.
Glasgow, James Lumsden & Son, 1831.
slim 8vo [21x9cm]. ppvii 280. 3 folding maps. 4 pages of three small engraved views.
in the original gilt lettered maroon roan leather binding, badly worn to the spine and rubbed at the edges. glue repair to upper hinge. some foxing to the maps and light soiling to the end-papers, otherwise in good clean condition internally.
the third and penultimate edition of this scarce early guide to the steam boat excursions on the west coast of Scotland. includes a list of the steam boats plying the Clyde, west coast and Firth of Forth waters, and it interesting to note that within twenty years after the introduction of the 'Comet' in 1812, there were over sixty steam vessels sailing on and around the Clyde
