Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Half morocco, marbled boards, gilt lettering and gilt decoration to spine, leather spine label. Folding map and 7 of 10 engravings. Front cover detached but present, ex-library label on front pastedown, edgewear and scuffing, half-inch circular chip to spine, contents mildly age-darkened. Despite the foregoing imperfections, thiis is still an attractive little book.
Seller: Old Bookshelf, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Three-quarter bound light brown leather boards with marbled covers; xi, 379, 38 pp.; richly illustrated. "AS IS" COPY. AS IS (boards detached, spine strip missing, foxed and toned pages, etc.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: pp. xi, 378, 38 (Appendix), with folding map, 8 plates, and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine, new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page, frontispiece, and some plates foxed (as often found), the remainder of the text quite clean. Map has a section meanuring about 1.5 x 3 inches missing from lower left, with some loss of content. A good reference copy. The author was the son of Sir John Barrow, who traveled and worked in China and South Africa and served in the British Admiralty, where he was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of exploration and discovery. The younger man followed in his father's footsteps as a traveler and writer, producing popular and well-received works on his travels in Ireland, Iceland, Northern Europe, and Austria, Lombardy, and Bavaria.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Book condition: Fair/Good in green cloth covered boards with leather spine and corners; gilt titles and raised bands to spine; gilt top page edges; heavy rubbing to leather binding; foxing and heavy dust to prelims and plates; light foxing/smudges elsewhere; some pencil marks to margins; two small, oval stamps. one to margin, one to fold-out map; light reading wear. First Edition.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$274.53 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: p.p. xi - 379 + 38 page appendix. Folding map. Plates. Cntp calf, gilt spine. Rubbed.
Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 7.5 x 4.75 in., pp. xi, [1], 379, [1], 38 (appendix). Rebound in dark brown three-quarter tooled calf over brown stone-marbled boards. Four raised bands to spine with gilt roll and gilt rule bordering each band, and bright gilt lettering (title author and year) to first and second compartments. With fold-out hand-colored map of Ireland (12 x 9.25 in.), eight engravings by D. Maclise, plus charts, graphs, maps, and in-text wood-cuts on the letter-press pages. (Printed by W. Clowse and Sons, Stamford Street). Small scribble in turquoise ink to verso of title page. Some old tide-lines to prelims and title page, but clean and bright throughout. A series of letters by Barrow, who also explored and wrote about North of Europe, and Iceland.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$277.82 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 20 x 12 cm. xi, 379 pages, 38 pages Appendix. Complete with a folding Map, Plates and Illustrations in Text, as listed. Later green cloth with gilt title on spine. New dark green end papers. Very good condition. Sound new binding. Name of previous owner and gift label on front paste down (see images). First and last pages age darkened and mildly foxed. Internally clean. Sprache: english.
Seller: West Coast Rare Books, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece of Jaunting Car by D. Maclise and engraved title, folding map of the Ireland and route of the tour, another smaller map, 4 plates and text illus. xii, 379, (1), 38, (2) pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, paper spine label, a nice copy, small nick at bottom of spine Frontispiece of Jaunting Car by D. Maclise and engraved title, folding map of the Ireland and route of the tour, another smaller map, 4 plates and text illus. xii, 379, (1), 38, (2) pp. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$382.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: professionally repaired frontis and two facimile plates
Seller: BARDICBOOKS, armagh, Ireland
Price: US$445.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Contemporary leather, gilt tooling to spine & edges, marble effect page edges & end papers, some scuffing & wear to binding, all illustrations present, some foxing & staining to illustration margins, text block clean & tight, photos sent on request.
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
Price: US$493.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very handsome copy expertly rebound in the 80s with brown leather spine and corners Gilt bands salmon pink title label with gilt titles, new end papers folding map of Ireland dated 1835 frontice plate and several more, title page foxed, pages opposite plates have offseting as is often the case. A fine scarce copy 379pp plus 38 pages of an appendix
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland