Ultima Thule

London: William P. Nimmo. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and slightly soiled. Re-backed retaining most of original spines. Ex.-lib. Cruising Association. 1875. First Edition. Blue hardback pictorial cloth cover. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xix, 380pp, + ads; vii, 408pp. 11 plates, 2 folding coloured maps and other illustrations. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for… Read more about this item

London: William P. Nimmo,, 1875. In a stylish Zaehnsdorf binding First edition. Short of income after being removed as British consul to Damascus in 1871, Burton accepted a lucrative offer to search for sulphur in Iceland. The resulting work participates in the late Victorian surge of interest in Norse culture and the Icelandic sagas, Burton's journey taking place between… Read more about this item

William P. Nimmo, 1875. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. 2 volumes, with historical introduction, maps and illustrations. Covers sheflworn and mildly stained. . Endpages have some staining along the edges.

London/Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1875. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) is most-famed for eitherr his African explorations or his erotica. But he also spent the summer of 1872 in Iceland, where he made his typical keen observations. Penzer notes that he wrote a sequel, but it was never published. These are Near Fine copies of the First Edition, a… Read more about this item

London: William P. Nimmo, 1875. 2 volumes. First edition. Both volumes with lithographic frontispieces, fold-out maps and illustrations throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered and with pictorial motifs and borders in gilt on the spines, the upper covers with large and elaborate central pictorial decorations in gilt and black, bordering decorations in black, double ruled… Read more about this item

London: William P. Nimmo, 1875 2 vols. 8vo. brown buckram gilt, trimmed (cleaned-up ex-library, bound without half-tiltles, occ. notation & label removal marks, hinges cracking, rubbed with some wear to extremities, corners a bit bruised, some fraying to Vol. 1 frontispiece, occ. spotting, watermarking and other grubby marks); pp. iii-xx (last blank), 380, with 3 plates (one unlisted), 13 text… Read more about this item

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Ultima Thule:or, a Summer in Iceland, in Two Volumes - Vol. 1.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.