Sammelband: Address on the Opening of the Suez Canal. Diaries of Trips to Egypt and America, inter alia

Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co. Limited, Printer, 1890. Three works in one volume with general title-page (as above): Address by John Ramsay, Esq., of Kildalton, [Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow], President of the Chamber, on The Opening of the Suez Canal. 11th January, 1879. Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co. Limited, Printer, 1890. 8vo, 210 x 135 mms., pp. [3], 14. BOUND WITH: Diary of a Trip to Egypt on the Occasion of the Opening of the Suez Canal. 1891. 8vo, pp. [5], 6 - 55 [56 blank]. BOUND WITH: Diary of a Trip to America. 1891. 8vo, pp. [3], 4 - 72, bounin thin boards, cloth spine, title of two items on front cover; stain on front cover. John Ramsay of Kildalton (1814-1892) was a Scottish writer, traveller, politician, and whisky-producer. He began his career as a whisky distiller in 1836 on Islay in the Inner Hebrides. He built Kildalton Castle, now in ruins. He became a member of Parliament in 1868. The two travel items are full of information and data. Copies located only in National Library of Scotland. The diary of the trip to America is reprint in John Ramsay of Kildalton, J.P., M.P., D.L: Being an Account of His Life in Islay, and Including the Diary of His Trip to Canada in 1870, compiled by Freda Ramsay and published in the late 1960s.