First edition. 20 plates, including 2 folding, and numerous in-text illustrations. 4to. Full calf, clumsily rebacked, rather rubbed and worn. Foxing, especially to plates. Bookplate to upper pastedown, ink inscription of Royal Empire Society Summer School BALLIOL COLLEGE [Oxford] June 1956 to ffep. xvi, [2], 279pp. London, Rodwell & Martin, 1818.
Light was a captain in the Royal Artillery and obtained leave from his garrison on Malta to perform the journeys described.
Blackmer 1018.