To Iceland in a Yacht – £300 at Thomson Roddick.
Something of a rarity, To Iceland in a Yacht appears to have no other auction appearances to its name. It was privately printed in Edinburgh in 1873 for its author, the chemist Robert Angus Smith (1817-84), a man best known for his work on air pollution and his identification of what later came to be known as acid rain.
An inscribed presentation copy containing two folding plans, together with five litho plates and six autotypes from photographs, sold for £300 in a Thomson Roddick (17.5% buyer’s premium) Carlisle sale of March 21.