Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 265

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Browne, Edward (1644-1708)
Naukeurige en Gedenkwaardige Reysen.

Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1682.

First edition in Dutch, translated from the English original by Jacob Leeuw; added engraved title page, illustrated with sixteen of seventeen plates (ten folding, six full-page), lacking the final plate of St. Petersburg; bound in contemporary half leather binding of pink-tinted alum-tawed spine and corners with speckled paper-covered boards, with extensive marginal notes on ffep, 7 7/8 x 6 in.

This Dutch-language translation of Browne's original work, A Brief Account of some Travels in Hungaria, Styria, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Serbia, Carynthia, Carniola, and Friuli, published in two parts in 1673 and 1677, chronicles his experiences on the continent. Browne's father was Sir Thomas Browne, and the son followed his father's example, as a published author, physician, Fellow of the Royal Society, and personal doctor to Charles II.