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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.

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,… Read More