A Northern Summer; or Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 by Carr, John - 1806

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hartford 1806 Lincoln and Gleason. Hardcover. Small octavo., 330pp., full leather with later paper spine. Good, some foxing, hinges cracking on inside but still holding. Binding secure. Text lightly evenly toned. .

Cady & Eells, 1806. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. Second Connecticut edition. Front board loose, front hinge repaired, 'Milford Library No 270.' in black ink on title page. 1806 Full-Leather. x, [11]-330, [4] pp. 12mo. A European travelogue by the itinerant voyager who also wrote The Stranger in Ireland and The Stranger in Paris. Byron referred to him as "Europe's wandering star" in an unpublished version of Childe Harold. This work first appeared in two volumes in 1805.

New London: Cady & Eells, 1806. Second. hardcover. very good(-). 330 pages. 12mo, full contemporary calf; bottom right corner bumped, covers worn at corners and edges, spine blackened and label missing, end page loose, pages toned with some foxing throughout, final four pages torn but text remains legible. New London: Cady & Eells, 1806. Second Connecticut edition. A very good(-) copy.<br/><br/> Early American imprint.<br/><br/>

London: Richard Phillips, 1805. Hardback, half-calf, spine relaid. Marbled board and end-papers. xi, 480pp. Complete with 11 aquatint plates. 1st edition 1805. Binding is somewhat worn. Bookplates to front pastedown. Paper that plates are on is slightly age-discoloured. Small repaired chip to folding plate. A little occasional foxing. A rather decent copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (an7). 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Glasgow: Printed by D. M'Kenzie for the Booksellers, 1806. xii, [1], 14-300pp. Uncut in original publisher's plain paper boards, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbing, with loss to spine. Internally clean and crisp. The second collection of travel writing from Sir John Carr (1772-1832), abridged here from the first edition of 1805 (apparently for the Scottish market) in the wake of the commercial success of his first work The Stranger in Paris (1803). The Stranger in Ireland appeared the year after, followed swiftly by A Tour through Holland followed (1807). Despite their popularity and profitability, the speed with which Carr produced his works for print led to criticism, with may claiming then to be of superficial at best, thus earning the author the nickname 'the jaunting car'. Satires of his work began to appear, notably Edward Dubois' attempt for which Carr would attempt to sue. Byron too was not adverse to joining the melee, referring to Carr, who he had met in Cadiz, in an… Read More

Richard Phillips. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1805. Hardcover. Rebound. This is the 1805 edition. ; 480 pages .

Richard Phillips, 1805-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Printed for R. Phillips by T. Gillet. 4to. 27 x 22 cm. Fine binding. Modern 1/2 calf, gilt ruled over marbled boards. Small scratch on rear cover. 11 sepia tinted plates, including folding panorama of Petersburg. xi, [1], 480 pages, 11 plates. Verso of panorama & verso of Upsula plate professionally repaired. Collated, complete with half-titles. Scattered light foxing. Abbey, Travel 73; Lowndes. Russia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, etc.