A year's Journey through the Pais Bas or Austrian Netherlands Thicknesse

Thicknesse, Philip.

Travel 1786 | A year’s Journey through the Pais Bas or Austrian Netherlands, second edition with considerable additions and the routes through Germany, Holland and Switzerland, Difference of Money, etc, London J. Debrett 1786, 392 pp. Extra letters added in this second edition.

Name: Travel 1786 | A year's Journey through the Pais Bas or Austrian Netherlands, second edition with considerable additions and the routes through Germany, Holland and Switzerland, Difference of Money, etc, London J. Debrett 1786, 392 pp. Extra letters added in this second edition.
SKU: BB110345
Availability: InStock

Modern later linen binding in good condition. Interior with some foxing, complete with all the illustrations. Folding frontispiece etching by John Carter after a drawing of the author Thicknesse. The frontispiece shows the execution of Jean Calas. Travel report of a ‘quarrel-ridden tour’ in The Netherlands and Belgium. Philip Thicknesse (1719-1792) was author and lieutenant governor of Landguard Fort in Suffolk and first patron of Gainsborough. The form of the book is in Letters. About: bottling spa water, anecdote Baron Trank, amsusement at the Vauxhall at Spa, Acedote of the King of Prussia, Account of Prince Justinian and his dess, description of his baggage and attendants, Aix-la Chapelle, wine-merchants in Brussel guilty of great frauds, The wines of Germany and Hungary superior of those of France and Portugal, the difference between Antwerp and Brussels, History of the New-York Millener evaded, The looking-glass and Orange-tree, Voltaire, etc. Amusing style of writing.

In this second edition, 42 letters are added to the text. From p. 325 a report is added with “an accurate route to all the principal cities and towns in Germany, Holland and Switserland (Zwitserland, Suisse)”, all beginning in Straatsburg, Strassbourg. Also the prices of the stagecoaches, diligences from Straatsburg are mentiones, as well as the conversion tables of German and French money (Pricelist, Prijslijst).

Provenance: Blindstamp of Theological Hartford Seminar on the titlepage, on the back stamp: Case memorial library, Theological Seminary Hartford. Hartford Seminary is now a graduate theological institution in Connecticut’s state capital. It was the first theological seminary in America to admit women and was dounded in 1834.

SKU: BB110345

€ 305,20 (€ 280,00 ex. btw)

In stock