BOSWELL (James):

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Containing Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour, and never before published; A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions of Men and Books: with an authentick account of The Distresses and Escape of the Grandson of King James II. in the Year 1746.

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly..., 1785. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 208 x 125 mms., pp. [iii] - vii [viii quotation], 524 [525 Errata and Proposals for printing Boswell's life of Johnson, 526 blank], with "induced" in the note on page 121, E3, E4, and M4 in cancelled state, page 237 "Kings and subjects" on line 5-6, "nor Mrs. Thrale" on page 299, recently rebound in half calf, with earlier marbled boards, gilt rules on spine, red leather label; lacks half-title, but a very good copy. With a contemporary owner's signature, possibly "W Runddyll", on top margin of title-page. I have nothing fresh to say about Boswell's Journal. It is a very entertaining and instructive book. As is well known, Boswell had the assistance of Edmund Malone in compiling the journal. By the time Boswell got around to composing the journal, he was drinking more heavily than he had in earlier days. He recorded in a note written in 17 August 1785 that he "Drank a great deal of wine. Malone had promised me all the evening to revise. I went between six and seven, but was not very fit for the task." One of the more entertaining features of the journal is the frequent mention of eating and drinking. On 26 August 1773, Boswell and Johnson had breakfast at Cullen: "They set down dried haddocks broiled, along with our tea. I ate one; but Dr Johnson was disgusted by the sight of them, so they were removed…". Sir Walter Scott, in one of his many annotations in his copy of Boswell's Journal, came to the defence of this dish: "A protest may be entered on the part of most Scotsmen against the doctor's taste in this particular. A Finnon haddock dried over the smoke of the sea-weed, and sprinkled with salt water during the process, acquires a relish of a very peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire." One has to be grateful to Boswell for recording this incident and also to Scott for his very Scottish defense of the dish. My sentiments accord with those of Dr. Johnson. Pottle 57; Rothschild 456; Tinker 333.

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Book number: 10548

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[BRUNEL (Antoine de)]:

A Journey into Spain.

London, Printed for Henry Herrignman..., 1670. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 163 x 105 mms., pp. [viii], 247 [248 blank], notes in pencil on recto of rear free end-paper, later wrappers; front hinge exposed, but a good to very good copy. This abridged translation of Voyage d'Espagne curieux, historique, et politique (1665) by Antoine de Brunel is also attributed to François van Aerssen, 1572-1641, and to his grandson François van Aerssen, 1630-1658. "Dutch diplomat Antoine de Brunel's Voyage d'Espagne (A Journey into Spain, 1665) tends to burden the reader with intricacies of court politics, but he also inserts here and there superb portraits of political figures - under lining the pettiness of the Spanish nobility - as well as poignant descriptions of a mostly desolate land, its miserable lodgings, its precarious buildings, and other evidence to Spain's low quality of life" (Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González, César Domínguez, editors: A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula 2010). Brunel's volume was the first mention of bullfighting in Spain in English and had wide literary repercussions, being a source, for example, of Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (1932). Brunel discusses the bullfights over several pages (77 - 83).

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ENGLISHWOMAN (An). [NEATON (née Waldie], Charlotte Anne]:

Narrative of a Residence in Belgium During the Campaign of 1815; and of A Visit to the Field of Waterloo.

London: Printed for John Murray..., 1817. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 200 x 120 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 351 [352 blank], presentation initials on top margin of title-page, contemporary quarter roan, stiff marbled boards, paper label on spine; shaken in casing, front joint with slight loss of leather, a so-so copy. The writer Charlotte Anne Waldier [later Eawton] (1788–1859) began writing a Gothic novel, but abandoned. Circumstances took her to Brussels in 1815, and, as Oxford DNB reports, "In June 1815 Charlotte visited Brussels, the hastily established headquarters of Wellington's army, via Bruges and Ghent with her brother John and sister Jane [see below]. They were evacuated to Antwerp because of the rapid French advance, and visited the battlefield at Waterloo before returning to England after six weeks away. Charlotte wrote an account of the battle published first as 'Circumstantial detail' by 'a Near Observer' in The Battle of Waterloo (1815) which was accompanied by panoramic sketches by Jane Waldie. In 1816 Charlotte and Jane met John in France and continued with him to Italy. In 1817, while she was still in Italy, Charlotte's family published a more extended account based on her own experiences in Narrative of a Residence in Belgium, During the Campaign of 1815, and of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo. By an Englishwoman. It was noted for its liveliness and its unflinching account of the horror of the battle, vestiges of which were still very much in evidence when Charlotte visited Waterloo."

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Book number: 10648

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FELLOWES (W. D. [William Dorset]):

Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, In 1817: With Notes, Taken During A Tour Through La Perce, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou.And The Environs Of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings made on the Spot. Second Edition.

London: Printed for William Stockdale, 1818. 1818. Tall 8vo, 222 x 136 mms., pp. xii, 186, 13 hand-coloured aquatints, one engraved vignette within texts, one outline, contemporary half calf, spine embossed in blind, red morocco label, marbled boards; slight wear to binding, but the plates are fresh and clean, with bright, unfaded colours. A very good copy The Monastery of La Trappe began as a small chapel in 1122; it grew and prospered over the next six hundred years or so, until the Hundred Years War. After the French Revolution, the government sold it as national property. It was rebuilt in the 1880s and re-opened as an abbey imn 1895. Fellowes' splendid illustrations at an unfortunate time impressive represent what happened.

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Book number: 10301

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FIFE (John W.):

American Visit, 1947.

Burnley Printed by Hortus PrintingN Co. Ltd., Burnlety for J. W. Fife, Amulree, Barnton, Midlothian, 1948. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 248 x 185 mms, pp. 66, lithographed and liberally illustrated with pictures, at least one on every page, also with amusing drawings in the margins made by Fife, fine quality paper, attractive binding with gilt outline of American on front cover, white paper wrappers (soiled and worn), and inscribed by Fife on recto of front free end-paper, "With my compliments / John W. Fife / Oct. 1948." John Weir Fife (1900-c.1979), British horticulturalist and traveller, was a director then chairman of Dobbie & Co., Ltd, a well-known horticultural firm of Britain. The company is still going strong today as Dobbies Garden Centres. Much of his travelogue is about his horticultural visit. He attended George Watson's College in Edinburgh and travelled extensively. The John Fife Travel Awards were inaugurated in 1979: "The aim is to encourage young people of Scottish birth or parentage working or studying in horticulture to expand their horizons by enabling them to travel overseas to attend courses or conferences and experience for themselves different cultures and broaden their horticultural knowledge and understanding." The only copy that I have located is in the NLS.

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Book number: 8999

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FRIEDLANDER (Herman):

Views in Italy, during A Journey in the Years 1815 and 1816. Published in in Leipzig 1819. 2 vols.

London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips..., 1821. 8vo, 202 x 117 mms., pp. 124, recent marbled wrappers; text only, lacks plates.

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Book number: 8631

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GIBBON (Edward):

Gibbon's Journey from Geneva to Rome. His Journal from 20 April to 2 October 1764. Edited by Georges A. Bonnard.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1961. 8vo, pp. xxvi, 268, 12 illustrations, original cloth, fine copy in very slightly worn dust-jacket.

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Book number: 5312

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[HALSEY (Tappen):

A Little Travel.

No place Printed by Albert F. Allen [from colophon] [c. 1895] FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 200 x 130 mms., pp. [3] 4 - 184, minimal title-page, bound in sturdy buckram, title on front cover, with inscription on verso of front free end-paper: "With the Compliments of / 'The Pilgrim' / Tappen Halsey / 1895"; small water-stain on front cover, but a very good copy, printed on thick paper. Tappen Halsey was a well-known citizen of Chicago in the late nineteenth century, being a businessman who owned several pharmacies in Illinois and Michigan. He seems not, however, to be generally known as a traveller or travel writer, and this appears to be the only copy known of his extensive account of his voyaging.Halsey travelled through at least seven countries, Algeria, Spain, Italy, France, Monaco, Switzerland, and Britain. Halsey was a sympathetic traveller with an eye for revealing detail. He reports, for instance, on the ubiquity of telephones in Switzerland (in 1895!). In Italy, he visits the Vatican, and observes that the big toe of a medieval bronze statue of St. Peter has been "kissed away" by the daily kisses of the faithful over six centuries (p. 61). With his wife he purchases a painting done on cobweb, which he notes is a specialty found only among the Tyrolese. He has first-hand encounters with the famous -- hearing, for instance, both Farrar and Wilberforce preach in London, being particularly impressed with the former. Brits come off rather badly at one point, as Mr and Mrs Halsey witness "more drunkenness and wretchedness in London in one day than in all our travel" (p. 180). The fellow Americans that Halsey meets touring in Europe come off rather poorly too, since, he says, "Americans have much to learn in regard of patience, and gentle regard for others, before they will equal the French, German, Austrian or even Italian travelers" (p. 73). Thank goodness times have changed, and every American abroad these days is patient as pie, gentle as a dove. Harold F. Smith, who compiled the standard bibliography of such literature, has not only no entry of this item but none on our author (Harold F. Smith, American Travellers Abroad: A Bibliography of Accounts Published before 1900, 2nd ed., 1999). No other copy located: not in WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, British Library, or the Library of Congress. It is not in Melvyl, nor is it in any of the several Chicago libraries that I have checked.

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Book number: 9047

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HATFIELD (Miss [Sarah]):

The Terra Incognita of Lincolnshire; With Observations, Moral, Descriptive, and Historical, in Original Letters, Written (Purposely for the Improvement of Youth) during the Months of May and October, 1815.

London: Printed for G. and S. Robertson, and Gale, and Fenner..., 1816 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 1185 x 108 mms., pp. vi [vii errata, viii blank], 144 [145 adverts, 146 blank], folding engraved frontispiece of the Julian Bower Maze [repaired at fold], uncut in original pale blue, boards, neatly rebacked in cloth, unlettered, the boards rubbed and surface soiled but sound, a good copy, with a few annotations in pencil addressing some of the locations mentioned in the texts. Not much seems to be know abou Sarah Hatfield (fl. 1801-1833) . I have had a copy of another work, The Theology and Mythology of the Antient Pagans, published in 1815, and she was the author of other works, including a novel, She Lives in Hopes, or, Caroline (1801). The present work was her last book, and there were two further editions after this one

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Book number: 10626

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JOHNSON (Samuel):

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. A New Edition.

Edinburgh: Printed for J. Ogle; M. Ogle, Glasgow; R. Ogle, and T. Hamilton, London; and J. Johnston, Dublin, By Thomas Turnbull, 1811. 12mo, 176 x 98 mms., pp. 186 [187 - 188 adverts], contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed), gilt spine (rubbed); joints cracked, corners worn, contemporary autograph of "Margaret Moir" on top margin of title-page. Fleeman.75.sJ/13.

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LEATHLEY (Mary Elizabeth Southwell):

The Star of Promise; or, From Bethlehem to Calvary. By Mary E. S. Leathley, Author of "In the Beginning," "Conquerors and Captives," Etc.

Chicago: David C. Cook..., [no date], [?1876]. 12mo, 152 x 94 mms., pp. iv, 179 [180 blank, 181 - 190 adverts for Ward Lock & Co in London], steel-engraved frontispiece, original cloth, title blocked in gilt on spine a front cover; small stain at bottom of frontispiece not affecting image, binding a little rubbed and worn. OCLC lists a copy, located in Cambridge University Library, printed in London in ?1876 by Ward, Lock, and Tyler, but I cannot find any record of this Chicago imprint, which has the same physical description and pagination and perhaps with the adverts. There are several modern paperback reprints. Uncommon.

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Book number: 8624

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MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (Felix), author. WALLACE (Grace Jane, Lady Wallace), translator:

Letters from Italy and Switzerland. Translated from the German by Lady Wallace. Third Edition.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. As a translator, Wallace made musicians one of her specialties, and Mendelssohn loomed large among the musicians she translated. As the Oxford DNB notes, "For Longmans she translated the lives and letters of contemporary musicians, publishing the Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847, edited by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Dr Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1863); Mendelssohn's Letters from Italy and Switzerland (1862); Beethoven's Letters (1790–1826) from the Collection of Dr Ludwig Nohl (1866); and The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791), edited by Nohl (1865). These works were widely reviewed and remained the standard English translations until Emily Anderson's new editions for Macmillan." The recipient of this copy is called "Charlotte St John" in Lady Wallace's warm inscription. This may be a playful nickname, however, as a character of that name features in the three-decker St. Martin's Eve by the popular novelist Mrs. Henry Wood, which was published earlier the same year, 1866, in which Wallace inscribed this volume.

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Book number: 10117

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RAMSAY (John), of Kildalton:

Sammelband: Address on the Opening of the Suez Canal. Diaries of Trips to Egypt and America, inter alia.

Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co. Limited, Printer, 1890. Three works in one volume with general title-page (as above): Address by John Ramsay, Esq., of Kildalton, [Chamber of Commerce, Glasgow], President of the Chamber, on The Opening of the Suez Canal. 11th January, 1879. Glasgow: McCorquodale & Co. Limited, Printer, 1890. 8vo, 210 x 135 mms., pp. [3], 14. BOUND WITH: Diary of a Trip to Egypt on the Occasion of the Opening of the Suez Canal. 1891. 8vo, pp. [5], 6 - 55 [56 blank]. BOUND WITH: Diary of a Trip to America. 1891. 8vo, pp. [3], 4 - 72, bounin thin boards, cloth spine, title of two items on front cover; stain on front cover. John Ramsay of Kildalton (1814-1892) was a Scottish writer, traveller, politician, and whisky-producer. He began his career as a whisky distiller in 1836 on Islay in the Inner Hebrides. He built Kildalton Castle, now in ruins. He became a member of Parliament in 1868. The two travel items are full of information and data. Copies located only in National Library of Scotland. The diary of the trip to America is reprint in John Ramsay of Kildalton, J.P., M.P., D.L: Being an Account of His Life in Islay, and Including the Diary of His Trip to Canada in 1870, compiled by Freda Ramsay and published in the late 1960s.

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Book number: 8829

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SAINTIN, publisher. M***8 (le Baron [sic]):

Petits Voyages Pittoresques dans l'Asie, l'Afrique, l'Amérique, la Polynésie et les terres australes;contenant la description des principaux pays de ces parties du monde, et celle de leurs habitans; Avec trente-deux planches coloriées soigneusement, représentant les costumes de tous ces peuples.

A Paris, Chez Saintin, Libraire..., 1813. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Small, rectangular 8vo, 120 x 88, pp. [iv], 107 [108 blank], xcv [xcvi blank]; [iv], 106 [107 - 108 Table], xciv, engraved frontispiece in volumes and 31 other attractive and interesting engraved plates contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spines. A very good set. These two volumes, with quite a bit of emphasis on the Aborigines of Australia, have very good engravings, but how much of a contribution to ethnography they make is difficult to assess. All of the plates seem to derive from a great variety of previous images, and one has probably to be slightly sceptical about their authenticity. For example, California is represented by a plate that seems more appropriate to a location in South America.

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Book number: 10093

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SANDYS (George):

A Relation of a Journey begun An Dom. 1610. Foure Bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning. The third edition.

London. Printed for Ro: Allot, 1632 Folio, 272 x 180 mms., pp. [II], 309 [310 blank, 311 autographs of Sara Moone and Thomas Page 1783, 313 blank],engraved title-page followed by double page engraved map, folding panorama plate between second page of dedication and first page of text, engraved plates within text on pages 24 (map), 30, 33 (full-page), 39, 40, 41, 68, 80, [87; I2r], 95 (full-page), 96, 105, 128, 130, 133, 158 (map), 162 (floor plan), 164, 165, 166, 175, 178, 179, 180 (floor plans), 183, 184, 185, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 196. 198, 661 [sic for 199], 201, 231, 261, 265, 266, 258, 271, 279, 285, and 290, bound in early 18th century calf, gilt borders on covers, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, fragment of label; some fore-margins closely trimmed with occasional loss of a letter, a few spots and stains in text, lower and upper joints very slightly cracked, but a good to very good copy with "Thomas Page his Book" inscribed on top margin of the recto of the first free end-paper and again on the verso of leaf before title-page, and, as noted above, on the recto of the first end-paper with the date 1783 just below the autograph, probably early 18th century of "Sara Moons". The writer and traveller George Sandys (1578–1644), the ninth and youngest son of the Archbishop of York, Edwin Sandys, (1519?–1588) first published this title in 1615, followed by six other editions, in 1621, 1627, 1632, 1637, 1638, and. after his death, in 1670. Ioli Vingopoulou writes, "Sandys travelled in the East in the years 1610-1611, starting out from France. He sailed from Venice to the Ionian Islands, the southern Peloponnese, Chios, Lesbos, and the Straits of the Dardanelles from where he reached Constantinople. From there he sailed to Egypt, and visited Mount Sinai and the Holy Land. On his return trip, he put in at Cyprus, Sicily, Naples and Rome. Sandy's chronicle is the first detailed and polished travel account, with well-documented information from ancient sources cited in marginal notes. As such, it marks the transition from travel literature of the sixteenth century to that of the seventeenth. It is also representative of those travel narratives that oscillate between geography, history and autobiographical travelogue of fluid and contradictory character. Sandys strives to transmit original and unique geographical and anthropological knowledge, while at the same time increasingly expressing his own opinions and interpretations of what he sees. This publication, enriched with in-text copperplate engravings with original subjects, made an essential contribution to geographical and ethnographical knowledge in its time. It was translated into German and Flemish, and ran through nine editions in the seventeenth century alone. Besides passages from the Holy Scripture (1621-1626), Sandys translated and annotated Ovid's "Metamorphoses". The publication of the latter work in 1632, with citations from philosophers and commentaries by ancient authors, alongside his translation of the first book of Virgil's "Aeneid", established Sandys as an authority in literary circles of his era."

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Book number: 10305

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