Author: PAYEN.-
Title: Les voyages de monsieur Payen, où sont contenues les descriptions d'Angleterre, de Flandre, de Brabant, d'Holande, de Dennemarc, de Suède, de Pologne, d'Allemagne, & d'Italie. ... avec un table necessaire pour la commodité des voyageurs.
Description: Paris, Chez Estienne Loyson, au palais à l'entrée de la Galerie des Prisonniers, au Nom de Iesus., 1663. 12mo. W. small woodc. vign. on printed title, a number of woodc. head- and tailpieces. 19th c. half clf. over old marbled brds. Red spine label, giltlett. [a6, A-G12]. (XII, 152, XV ('Table de la Route...') I (Blank, but w. ms annots.) pp.). (some marginal yellowing, a few 18th c. annots. in ink (ownership inscr. in ink dated 1774 crossed out on pr. title and on verso last leaf). (A vague watersp. in prelims; idem righthand margin pp. 47 - 77; idem last few lvs. top righthand corner.). Not in Brunet and Graesse: Bring 68: Jacobsen Jensen 53.: At least 5 editions were published between 1663 and 1681. This is the very rare first edition of this interesting travel book. Apart from the descriptions of the main European cities (London, Ghent, Brussels, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Delft, The Hague, Leiden, Haarlem, Stockholm, Liege, Aachen, Cologne, Vienna, Danzig, Warsaw, Cracow, Venice etc.), it describes their monuments, art treasures, presents details on population and commerce, religion and government. Some specific points of interest: details on the Tower of London, the anatomical theatre at the University of Leiden, the Jewish quarters in Cracow, a silvermine in Sweden, the arsenal of Venice etc.

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