Notes of Travel Printed Area Measurement_26.5 x 31.5 cm It illustrates the Dutch voyage

It illustrates the Dutch voyage of 1594 by Willem Barentsz in search of a northeast passage

Green publisher’s cloth with Survey of India crest (pre- and post-Independence according to date) blocked in gilt on the front covers

Johnson supplied a new preface for the octavo abridgement of his famous Dictionary in which he explained that 'a small dictionary appeared yet to be wanting for common readers'

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Notes of Travel Printed Area Measurement_26.5 x 31.5 cm It illustrates the Dutch voyageNotes of Travel. Extracts from Home Letters written during a Two Years Tour Round the World, 1879 1881 Only edition. This is a presentation copy, inscribed ('From the writer') and initialled by the author, dated July, 1882. The letters record a young traveller's world tour, from Liverpool to Quebec, California, Australia and New Zealand; he spent nearly a year in the Antipodes (1879 80). He then visited China, Japan, the Philippines, South east Asia,