St John's College S.75 (James 467)

John Palmer, Journals of travel in Italy, France and Switzerland. English, 1821-4

John Palmer, Fellow of St John's College and Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge (1769-1840): detailed account of his travels in France and Switzerland, 1821 (3 vols), and in France and Italy, 1823-4 (4 vols).

Manuscript extra information

165x105 mm. (max.) 7 vols. Inside every front cover a College donation plate in the name of John William Pieters (1824-1901), Fellow and Senior Bursar of St John's, who presented these vols to the College in 1877.

Autograph journal. Paper. Soft covers in slip-case (nineteenth century).