MACKENZIE, George Steuart, Sir (1780–1848). Travels in the Island of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year 1810. Edinburgh: [T. Allan and Company] for Archibald Constable and Company, et al, 1812 [but actually 1813].
4to. (Occasional spotting at margins). 14 engraved plates including one folding (8 hand–colored aquatints), 3 maps (one folding), 4 folding tables, 15 in text engravings (offsetting from plates to text, few plates with some browning or marginal spotting). 19th century half plum morocco gilt, marbled sides, spine gilt, top edge gilt (extreme edges gently rubbed).
SECOND EDITION, slightly revised containing the same plates as the first but with a short account of the Revolution of 1809 added to the Appendix. Mackenzie was a distinguished mineralogist and president of the physical class of the Royal Society, traveled to Iceland in 1810 in the company of Drs. Henry Holland and Richard Bright. The mineralogical collections brought back from the expedition were spoken of with great admiration by Sir Charles Lyell. “Although the scientific portions of the book have long been superseded, it contains much information of permanent interest on the social and economic condition of Iceland” (DNB). Abbey, Travel 160 (first edition); Prideaux, pp. 232, 343; Tooley 314.