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Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013470168ISBN 13: 9781013470165
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by Legare Street Press 9/9/2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013470168ISBN 13: 9781013470165
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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Coryat's Crudities, Hastily Gobled up in Five Moneths Travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia Commonly Called the Grisons Country, Helvetia Alias Swi 1.31. Book.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013470168ISBN 13: 9781013470165
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Published by Legare Street Press 2021-09-09, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014252210ISBN 13: 9781014252210
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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ISBN 10: 1014252210ISBN 13: 9781014252210
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013470168ISBN 13: 9781013470165
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013470168ISBN 13: 9781013470165
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013470168ISBN 13: 9781013470165
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Printed for W. Cater; Samuel Hayes; J. Wilkie; and E. Easton, London, 1776
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. 3 volumes, pp. vol. 1: [208], 304; vol.2: [4], 484; vol. 3: [4], 91, [375], with 8 plates and 4 large text illustrations, all have half-titles. Full smooth calf, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, spinestrip stamped in gilt, handsomely bound by Birdsall. Each volume contains the bookplate of Canadian literary giant, Robertson Davies. Also contains the armorial bookplate of S.P.B. Mais (author of over 200 books). A nice clean set, housed in a brown cloth slipcase. Second edition.
Published by printed by William Stansby for the author, London, 1611
Seller: Liber Antiquus Early Books & Manuscripts, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. FIRST EDITION. Bound in 19th c. straight-grain green morocco, gilt (light wear to hinges, and extremities, joints strengthened). A very good, complete copy, a.e.g., with minor faults: plate of the Venetian courtesan facing p.261 re-margined and with small, clean tear, lower edge of leaf e5 restored with loss to a few words on recto, made good in pen, a few discreet paper repairs, occ. rust spots, causing small holes in lvs. Nn3 and Oo1. Complete with the additional engraved title ("Coryats Crudities Hastily gobled [sic] up") by William Hole, 4 engraved plates, engraved text illustrations by Hole, full-page woodcut arms of the Prince of Wales, woodcut headpieces, and decorative initials. Clock plate trimmed to plate mark. Internally very fine. Provenance: George Steevens (1736-1800, commentator on Shakespeare, friend of Samuel Johnson, with whom he collaborated on the 10-volume edition of Shakespeare's works (1773), ink stamp on title verso); Dudley Coutts "1st Baron Tweedmouth" Marjoribanks (1820-1895, " largely responsible for developing the then new breed of dog, known now as the golden retriever", leather bookplate). First edition of one of the earliest travelogues in English, written by Thomas Coryate (1577-1617), one of the great English eccentrics and travellers. The illustrations show the astronomical clock of Strasbourg, the Heidelberg tun, the amphitheater of Verona, and a portrait of the author (styled "Il Signior Tomaso Odcombiano") meeting the Venetian courtesan Margarita Emiliana, who greets Coryate with bare breasts. This last image illustrates Coryate's discourse on Venetian courtesans. "Coryate joined the household of Henry, Prince of Wales. Driven by curiosity he sailed from Dover in 1608 and arrived soon in Paris, 'which he found even filthier and smellier than London. At Fontainebleau he was befriended by members of Henri IV's garde écossaise and saw more of the royal household than would normally have been permitted to chance visitors. He journeyed on to Lyons, through Savoy to Turin, Milan, Mantua, and Padua. His description of how Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in apparently the first mention of "umbrella" in English literature. Table forks, almost unknown in England, were in general use in Italy; Coryate acquired one, imitated the Italian fashion of eating and continued to do so frequently when he came home . Arriving in Venice on 24 June 1608, Coryate presented two letters of introduction to the English ambassador, Sir Henry Wotton, who, perhaps impressed by the letter which mentioned that Coryate was remotely related to the earl of Essex, did him many kindnesses. These included rescuing him in the ambassadorial gondola from a threatening crowd of Jews who objected to Coryate preaching Christianity to their rabbi. Later he was to risk reprisals for antipathy to Roman Catholic rites and, during his Eastern travels, for proclaiming against Islam. After six weeks of intensive quest and recording of information, he left Venice on 7 August by boat to Padua, then walked to Vicenza, Verona, and Bergamo. Coryate arrived in Zürich by boat and reached Basel on foot at the end of August. While in Switzerland he heard the story of William Tell. Coryate's admirable rendering appears to be the earliest in English. Arriving in Strasbourg by boat he then got lost, alone and on foot, in the Black Forest, but the sole threat of armed violence experienced in Europe was from a German peasant, who resented Coryate picking grapes from a vineyard. He was hospitably received in Heidelberg and walked to Mainz. After a detour to visit Frankfurt's fair he sailed down the Rhine, with a brief stop at Cologne, and continued by water down what was the temporary truce line between the armies of Spain and the United Provinces. After calling on the English merchants established at Middelburg he was entertained by the English garrison at Flushing. Thence he embarked on 1 October and landed in London on 3 October 1608. With the recto.