Beskrivelse
[EDWARD PRICE]
Norway and its Scenery.
Comprising the journal of a tour by Edward Price. Esq. with considerable additions. And a roadbook for tourists, with hints to anglers and sportsmen. Edited and compiled by Thomas Forester.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. xi, 330pp, (1, A road book for tourists in Norway), (1, blank), (331)-470pp. Frontispiece and 21 mezzotint plates engraved by David Lucas after sketches by Edward Price.
Sunned spine, little book plate to front paste down. Upper edge of title leaf cut. A tight and very good copy.
Svinesund – Moss – Christiania – Krokskogen – Ringerike – Valdres – Fillefjeld – Sogn – Voss – Bergen – Voss – Hardanger – Bergen – Christiansund – Trondhjem – Dovre -Lillehammer – Christiania – Drammen – Holmestrand – Horten – Larvik.
Schiötz 826
Includes 3 more titles:
n.a. [Rothery, Charles William]
Notes of a yacht voyage to Hardanger fjord, and the adjacent estuaries. By a yachting dabbler.
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, n.d. (1855, as given by British and American university catalogues. Schiötz wrote ca. 1850). xxvii, 105pp, plus addenda, list of illustrations and errata (2 pages). 1 coloured map, 26 illustrations of which 13 are tinted lithographs, 3 are mounted and coloured lithographs, 8 are woodcuts, and 2 steel engravings. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt pictorial and blind-stamped design on front cover.
Heavy weare.
Bergen – Tysnes – Hardanger – Stavanger – Christiansand (1845).
Schiötz 887, Abbey 256.
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Charles W. Wood
Round about Norway. With sixty-three illustrations
London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1880. xv, 330pp.
Inner front hinge starting. Else a fine copy.
Kristiansand – Kristiania – Drammen – Hønefoss – Sperillen – Valdres – Fillefjeld – Sogn – Bergen -coastal trip with the ”Michael Sars” to Florø, towns in Møre, Trondhjem, Bodø, Tromsø, Hammerfest, North Cape and back to Bergen – Hardanger – Voss – Sogn – Valdres – Ringerike – Kristiania (1877).
Schiötz 1197.
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n.a. [Scargill-Bird, Samuel Robert]
One and a half in Norway. A chronicle of small beer by Either and both.
London, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. xv, 173pp. Including 40 pages of advertisements. 12mo. First edition. Original pictorial blue cloth binding, the front cover with gilt title and vignette of a stabbur, the spine with gilt title, publisher and a small leaf decoration.
A ok copy
Aalesund – Molde – Romsdal – Geiranger – Bergen – Voss – Sogn – Fillefjeld – Valdres – Hønefoss – Kristiania (1884).
Schiötz 915.