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London: printed for A. Linde, Bookseller to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, in Catherine-Street in the Strand; and T. Field, at the Wheat-Sheaf, the Corner of Pater-Noster-Row, Cheapside, 1756-1757.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. Four volumes. I: xiv, [vi], 520pp.; II: [iv], 507pp.; III: [iv], 385, 10pp.; IV: [iv], 290, 77, 10pp. Contemporary calf, covers loose. Bindings quite worn. With eight plates, three folding. There are three plates in volume I, one in volume II, one in volume III, and three in volume IV. Waber 33; Haller I, 968; De Beer, Travellers, p. 31; ESTC T089052; Cox, E.G. Travel, I, p. 133; ESTC T89052. Made-up copy; binding of volume II does not match the rest.
Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain. Vol. II by KEYSLER, John George - 1760
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Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain. Vol. II
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London: G. Keith et al, 1760. Leatherbound. Good +. [6], 474, [22] p. 21 cm. Leather. Gilt wearing off spine, chip in label, spine ends chipped, boards rubbed, corners worn.
Title continues: "Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of those Countries; Their Natural, Literary, and Political History; Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Coins, Antiquities, Curiositis of Art and Nature, &c. Illustrated With Copper-Plates, engraved from Drawings taken on the Spot. By John George Keysler, Fellow of the Royal Society in London. Carefully translated from the Second Edition of the German." Despite what it says in the title, there are no plates in this volume.
Title continues: "Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of those Countries; Their Natural, Literary, and Political History; Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Coins, Antiquities, Curiositis of Art and Nature, &c. Illustrated With Copper-Plates, engraved from Drawings taken on the Spot. By John George Keysler, Fellow of the Royal Society in London. Carefully translated from the Second Edition of the German." Despite what it says in the title, there are no plates in this volume.
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Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain. Giving a True and just Description of the Present State of those Countries; their natural, literary, and political history, manners, laws, commerce, manufactures, painting, sculpture, arthitecture, coins, antiquities, curiosities of art and nature, &c.: illustrated with copper-plates, engraved from drawings taken on the spot.
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Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain. Givin a True and Just Description of the Present State of those Countries; their Natural, Literary, and Political History, Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Coins, Antiquities, Curiosities of Art and Nature, &cc. llustrated With Copper-Plates, engraved from Drawings taken on the Spot. Carefully translated from the Second Edition of the German.
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London, for A. Linde 1756-57.. 4 vols. 4°. XIV (6) 520; (4) 507; (4) 385 (10); (4) 290, 77 (10) pp. with frontispiece-map and 7 (3 folded) copperplates. Contemp. calf / Ldr.-Bde. d. Zt. Exlibris. Hinges restored. Edges rubbed. Wellcome III, 390; Ebert 11363; Higgs 6616; Cox I, 133; Graesse IV, 15 - First English edition, based on and translated from the 2nd German Edition, the first German Edition was published in 1740, Hannover. The copperplates are in fine and fresh condition, signed "C. H. Hem(m)erich sculp." The author Johann Georg Keysler (also Keyssler; 1693-1743) was a German archaeologist and writer. The German Edition of his famous work "Neueste Reise duch Teutschland" was severely censored because Keysler also discussed the present political and economic conditions in the German states. "This work though heavy, is interesting from the picture it exhibits of Germany, etc., in the middle of the 18th century. [...] The volumes deal with the natural history,…
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