"Sketches of Lago Maggiore and Pallanza" - 1879 - Bound with 17 accomplished watercolours of the Italian lakes by a woman traveller and accompanied by a letter from Queen Victoria's Private secretary Engraving at a place known as

at a place known as Waygat to the South of Novaya Zemblya

Four of the plates have Dutch text and are likely from a contemporary Dutch edition

coming within a few hundred miles of Antarctica

-The book is bound in its contemporary full leather binding with wear and some splitting to the spine

-Arthur Hopton

"Sketches of Lago Maggiore and Pallanza" - 1879 - Bound with 17 accomplished watercolours of the Italian lakes by a woman traveller and accompanied by a letter from Queen Victoria's Private secretary Engraving at a place known asBound with 17 accomplished watercolours of the Italian Lakes, and accompanied by letters from Queen Victorias Private Secretary Sketches of Lago Maggiore and Pallanza By the Reverend William Owen. Privately printed by Bickers & Son, London, 1879. Small 8vo. 112pp., [1]. Complete. Bound with 17 original watercolours. Contemporary black calf, gilt title to upper cover, marbled endpapers. Some wear to corners and intermittent spotting, but very good