Letters of a Traveller, on the Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa: Containing Sketches of their Present State, Government, Religion, Manners, and Customs

Alexander Thomson

James Wallis, and Wynne and Scholey, 1798

Contemporary leather binding. Gilt spine. Shelfwear. Front hinge cracked, front board detached. Marbled end sheets. Armorial bookplate of Richard Strachey.  viii, 524 pages. Thomson, a doctor, composed a series of letters of the wide range of places he journeyed to.  Notably, he discusses Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, Lapland, Russia, the Scottish Isles, Italy, Europe, Ottoman Turkey, Greece, Palestine, China, Persia, India, the Barbary States, England, Stonehenge, etc.