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SMITH, James Edward. A sketch of a Tour on the Continent in the years 1786 and 1787, London: for the author by J. Davis, sold by B. and J. White, 1793.
2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles. Advertisement leaf at end of volume III. (N3 of vol. II torn with loss to bottom 5 lines of text, Y4 of the same vol. with corner torn away, small ink smudge to N2r of vol. III obscuring one letter.) Contemporary mottled calf with black morocco lettering-pieces (joints a little worn, vol. I bumped at corners and with chip marks to lower cover).
FIRST EDITION. Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828), botanist, studied at the universities of Edinburgh and Leiden. This account of his Italian tour was dedicated to Dr. William Young, his travelling companion, and is, in Ingamell's words, "an observant and enlightened journal (with a bibliography of travel guides to Italy), in which the author's particular interests in botany and natural science are mixed with a tourist's curiosity concerning works of art and foreign customs." The bibliography is given in the appendix to volume III, consisting, the author says, in "an enumeration of the guide-books and local publications which I have used, arranged in order of the tour. To which is added, an account of some of the general works on Italy which have fallen in my way, disposed in alphabetical order." A second edition was published in 1807. Ingamells p. 868. Pine-Coffin 7862.
POLLNITZ, Karl Ludwig von. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, baron de Pollnitz. Being the observations he made in his late travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. In Letters to his Friend. London: for Daniel Browne, 1737-38. 8°, 4 volumes. Half-titles in volumes I and IV only. (Dampstains in vol. I, Z8r of vol. II stained.) Late 18th-century diced russia (rebacked with main section of old spines relaid, inner hinges repaired), spot-marbled endpapers and edges. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. This translation by Stephen Whatley includes letters from Venice, Florence, Rome, Genoa and Turin, 1730-31. The original edition was published at Liège, 1734. Pine-Coffin 7301. With 6 other works in 17 volumes. (24)
2 volumes, 8°. Half-titles. Advertisement leaf at end of volume III. (N3 of vol. II torn with loss to bottom 5 lines of text, Y4 of the same vol. with corner torn away, small ink smudge to N2
FIRST EDITION. Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828), botanist, studied at the universities of Edinburgh and Leiden. This account of his Italian tour was dedicated to Dr. William Young, his travelling companion, and is, in Ingamell's words, "an observant and enlightened journal (with a bibliography of travel guides to Italy), in which the author's particular interests in botany and natural science are mixed with a tourist's curiosity concerning works of art and foreign customs." The bibliography is given in the appendix to volume III, consisting, the author says, in "an enumeration of the guide-books and local publications which I have used, arranged in order of the tour. To which is added, an account of some of the general works on Italy which have fallen in my way, disposed in alphabetical order." A second edition was published in 1807. Ingamells p. 868. Pine-Coffin 786
POLLNITZ, Karl Ludwig von. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, baron de Pollnitz. Being the observations he made in his late travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. In Letters to his Friend. London: for Daniel Browne, 1737-38. 8°, 4 volumes. Half-titles in volumes I and IV only. (Dampstains in vol. I, Z8