Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides
Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides
Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides
Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides
Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides
Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides

Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides

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undertaken for the purpose of examining the state of the arts, the sciences, natural history and manners in Great Britain:

containing mineralogical descriptions of the country round Newcastle; of the mountains of Derbyshire; of the environs of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, and St.Andrews; of Inverary, and other parts of Argyleshire; and of the Cave of Fingal.

translated from the French of B. Faujas Saint-Fond.....

London, printed for James Ridgway, 1799.

2 volumes. 8vo. ppviii,iii,361. viii 352. 7 engraved plates (the six listed plus 'Section of the Strata to the Long Main Coal at St.Anthon's colliery') half-title present in volume one; not called for in volume 2.

light off-set from the plates, otherwise good clean condition in a contemporary quarter calf binding, with 'Blackness' gilt stamp to the foot of the spines. 


from the library of Blackness House, near Dundee, with Alexander Gibson Hunter's name to the title-page and a single manuscript sheet tipped in before the title-page with remarks on the work, possibly in Hunter's hand.