€900,00
[001840] M. MARTIN. A Voyage to St. Kilda. The Remotest of All the Hibrides, or
Western Isles of Scotland. London: Dan Brown and Lockyer Davis, 1753. Hard
Cover, Leather. Fine 79 pages ( the last 2 pages numbered wrong; 70 and 63),
text in English by M.Martin. Fourth edition, corrected. Contains a map with two
bird illustrations. "A Voyage to St. Kilda. The Remotest of All the Hibrides, or
Western Isles of Scotland: Giving an acoount of the very remarcable Inhabitants
of thet Place, their beauty and fingular Chastity (Fornication and Adultery
being unknown among them) ; their Genius for Poetry, Music, Dancing ; their
surpricing Dexterity in climbing the Rocks, and Walls of Houses, Diversions,
Habit, Food, Language,Diseases and methods of Cure, ; their extensive Charity,
their Contempt of Gold and Silver, as below the Dignity of Huamn Nature ; their
Religious Ceremonies, Notion of Spirits andVisions, & & "Fine leather binding
gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Flawless copy. Size: 198 x 128 Mm