8vo. x, 285pp, [3]. With half-title, terminal advertisement leaf, and eight engraved plates including frontispiece. Uncut in original publisher's tan paper boards, with remains of printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, substantial loss to head of spine. Upper hinge split, ink initials to half-title, foxed.

The travelogue of antiquary and geologist James Douglas (1753-1819), first published anonymously in 1782, which recalls the author's experiences in Vienna and the Low Countries, where his interests in the antiquarian would first be ignited. Written whilst a student at Cambridge, the work has an unconventional style that attempts to mimic the humour of Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Such was the work's popularity that subsequent to the first Rochester printing, two London editions of 1785 and 1786 were required, with a Dublin edition appearing in 1787, by which time the author's name had been added.