LINDSEY, W.H.: A Season at Harwich with Excursions by Land and Water. (Illustrated by the author). , London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1851.

Two volumes bound as one. Part II. being Researches in the Library of Doctor Bremmer; Containing Additions Historical, Natural, and Miscellaneous. "Dr. Bremmer - though his name, of course, is a fictitious one - is the type of a worthy Physician, who was for many years in the habit of recommending to his patients the air of Harwich and it neighbourhood, on account of his conviction of its salubrity and the benefits arising from a sojourn in the locality...." Pp.208/172, 8 of the 16 plates present including the folding map of a Part of Essex & Suffolk describing Excursions from Harwich and shewing its proximity to Colchester, Manningtree, Ipswich frontispiece and the folding Map of Harwich in 1709, + folding Map of Eastern Counties Railway + an extra(uncalled for) plate entitled National School, Little Oakey, occasional small vignette illustrations within the text throughout. Old inked name to top of illustrated title page, and other ownership details to front free endpaper, marks to endpapers, ink-outlined paragraph to pp.103, occasional light spotting. Dark green blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine slightly dulled. G+. (Book ref. 38610)  £85.00

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