Other details
- Description:
16 unnumbered pages, 182 pages ; 19 cm
- Published:
London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1700.
- Language:
English
- Notes:
Wing: W491.
Signatures: A⁶ (unsigned, except A₃: signed "A₂"), B-M⁸, N⁴.
First published in Edinburgh, 1693, with title: A description of the isles of Orkney, by Master James Wallace, late minister of Kirkwall. The present edition, revised, with omissions and additions, including a chapter on the plants and shells of the Orkneys, was published by the author's son as his own. Cf. D.N.B.
The "Essay concerning the Thule of the ancients" (p. 148-182) is by Sir Robert Sibbald. Cf. Watt's Bibl. Brit.
- OCLC Number:
7393406
