Author: Bingley, Rev. W.
Title: NORTH WALES; Including its Scenery, Antiquities, Customs, and Some Sketches of its Natural History; Delineated from Two Excursions Through all the Interesting Parts of that Country, During the Summers of 1798 and 1801.
Description: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xx + 464pp. + xii + 450pp. + [ii]. Hand cold. folding map (rebacked in part and with sm. tear at fold), engraved frontiss. 12pp. of sheet music. Some light browning, later half leather with cloth boards, gilt lettering with gilt tooled raised bands to lightly faded spines. ¶ William Bingley (1774–1823), naturalist and Church of England clergyman. ODNB ‘... Bingley was a noted writer on botany, topography, and popular zoology. His travels in Wales while still an undergraduate formed the basis of his two-volume, illustrated, [the above], which includes a catalogue of Welsh plants ...’

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; WALES


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