TO THE NORWEGIAN FJORDS
ROTHERY, Charles William.
Notes on a yacht voyage to Hardanger Fjord, and the adjacent estuaries. By a yachting dabbler. With numerous illustrations.
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman; Keswick, James Ivison, [1855].
8vo, pp. [2], xxvii, [1 (blank)], 105, [5]; with folding map and 26 plates (tinted and coloured lithographs, wood and steel engravings, 3 mounted, 1 double page); a very good clean copy in original blue cloth, title and vignette of yacht stamped in gilt to upper cover, gilt-lettered spine, yellow endpapers (ticket of Westleys & Co. of London to rear pastedown); a little wear to extremities, small marks to upper cover.
Added to your basket:
Notes on a yacht voyage to Hardanger Fjord, and the adjacent estuaries. By a yachting dabbler. With numerous illustrations.
First edition, second issue (with the mounted lithographs coloured) of this handsomely illustrated account of Rothery’s yachting cruise to the fjords of Norway, ‘charming and sublime scenery, which the sketches are intended, though slightly, to pourtray’ (Preface).
The plates include Rothery’s yacht, a view of Bergen, local costume, the Vøring Falls, Folgefonna glacier, Ulvik, and the port and cathedral at Stavanger, the tinted lithographs being particularly attractive.
Abbey, Travel 256.
