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An account of the islands of Orkney

by: Wallace, James, -1688

Publication date: 1700

Topics: Travel, Orkney (Scotland)

Publisher: London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ...

Collection: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries

Contributor: Wellcome Library

Language: English

Rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark

12 unnumbered pages, 182 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, folded plate & map ; (8vo)

Signatures: A6 (unsigned, except A3: signed "A2"), B-M8, N4

First published in Edinburgh, 1693, with title: A description of the isles of Orkney, by Master James Wallace, late minister of Kirkwall. The present edition, revised, with omissions and additions, including a chapter on the plants and shells of the Orkneys, was published by the author's son as his own. Cf. D.N.B

The "Essay concerning the Thule of the ancients" (p. 148-182) is by Sir Robert Sibbald. Cf. Watt's Bibl. Brit