Manuscript journal of a London wine merchants travels in France, Germany, Switzerland and the Low Countries during the summer and fall of 1835, accompanied as far as Switzerland by a boy, Alfonzo Pipon. The diary documents travel and hotel conditions; soc
Subject (Geographic):
Coblenz (Germany) and Rhine River.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism--Europe, Travelers writings, English., and Travelers.
Autograph diary of a tour through Germany and Italy, with a return voyage by way of Malta, Algiers and Gibraltar, taken by Trollope between September 1843 and April 1844 in the company of his friend Edward Davies. Trollope describes travel arrangements; monuments, works of art, and various tourist sights, particularly in Rome; church services attended and sermons heard; flowers and trees; shipboard activities; the quarantine of his steamer at Ryde; and the weather. He concludes his account by noting that ""I have seen quite enough to be able to value and prize the Institutions of our own country more than those I have left behind.""
Description:
40 etched, lithographed and aquatinted prints (3 hand-colored) of various subjects, including 5 of Malta. Several bills, tickets, passes and newspaper clippings pasted in, including an article on ""The Ghetto at Rome"" from Jewish Records), September 1857 (
Subject (Geographic):
Coblentz (Germany) and Ehrenbreitstein (Germany)
Subject (Topic):
Boats and boating, Coast defenses, Fortification, Tourism, Travelers, and Travelers writings, English
Each pt. has engraved frontispiece by Salomon Kleiner (reworked by Peter Mayer beginning with v. 3, pt. 1); it depicts Maria Theresa, to whom work is dedicated. Plates chiefly by Kleiner, Mayer, Johann Baptist Haas and Georg Nicolai, with some by A. Dischler, Michel d'Ixnard, Franz Rosenstingl, Rugendas, Leopold Schmittner, Anton von Weinkopf. Etched and woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials., Errata in each vol., Includes indexes., t. 1. Sigilla vetera & insignia cum antiqua, tum recentiora varii generis -- t. 2. Nummotheca principum Austriae -- t. 3. Pinacotheca principum Austriae -- t. 4. Taphographia principum Austriae., and Vol. 5 never appeared. Vols. 2-4 each have 2 pts. with special t.p.'s.
Publisher:
Prostant apud Leopoldum Joannem Kaliwoda, Aulae Imperialis typographum,
Subject (Geographic):
Austria--Kings and rulers, Austria--Kings and rulers--Medals, Austria--Kings and rulers--Portraits, and Austria--Kings and rulers--Tombs
Subject (Name):
Felner, Johann Georg, Gerbert, Martin, 1720-1793, Haas, Johann Baptist, 18th cent., Heer, Rustenus, 1715-1769, Kaliwoda, Leopold Johann, fl. 1734-1775, Kleiner, Salomon, 1700-1761, Kloster St. Blasien, Mayer, Peter, 1718-1800, and Nicolai, Georg, 18th cent.
"Lettre de M. Visconti ... à M. de Humboldt, sur quelques monumens des peuples américains" (p. 299-304) dated: Paris, le 12 décembre 1812. and Added t.p.: Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland. 1. ptie. Relation historique. Atlas pittoresque.