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[Naval Officer].

A Cruise; or, Three Months on the Continent. By a Naval Officer.

London: Printed for Law and Whittaker, 1818.,

306,26 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, Regno Unito)

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Autore
[Naval Officer].
Editori
London: Printed for Law and Whittaker, 1818.
Soggetto
TRAVEL CONTINENTAL TOUR ROLLER COASTER

Descrizione

First edition, 8vo (220 x 135 mm), iv, 129, [1]pp., 4 hand-coloured engraved plates (frontispiece entitled View of the Ariel Mountains, commonly callíd French Mountains), title-page a little browned and spotted, cont. half calf, patterned paper boards. One of the earliest accounts and illustrations of a roller coaster in an English book. The author starts his continental tour during the Summer of 1817 at Ostend and continues to Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Delft, Lyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Paris, and places in between. Provenance: Ownership signature of Charles Wright; bookplate of John Evan Bedford. Abbey, Travel, 18.
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