A journal of a voyage up Great Britain's west coast and to Iceland.

• Main Author: Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820.
• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1772
• Subjects: Banks; Joseph; 1743-1820; Sir; Travel; Naturalists; Naturalistes; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mcg.ark:/13960/t0tr05f35

Includes an Introduction and the journal entries, followed by an Appendix comprised of a "copy of the passport given by the Danish ambassador," in Latin. Described by Roy A. Rauchenberg and published as the chief portion of: The journals of Joseph Banks's voyage up Great Britain's west coast to Iceland and to the Orkney Isles, July to October, 1772 (in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 117, no. 3 (1973), p. 186-226; also reprinted). Bound in red morocco with gilt double-fillet border, spine with gilt lettering and gilt fillet trim, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges. Purchased by Casey Wood for the Blacker-Wood Library from Wheldon & Wesley Ltd., Codicote, Hertfordshire, 1924 (cf. Rauschenburg, p. 194). Title supplied by cataloguer, based on heading in the printed ed. edited by Roy A Rauschenberg, 1973. Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, from July 12 to Sept. 6, 1772. Holograph. Mode of access: Internet.