[Zückert, Johann Friedrich] (Ed.)

[Zückert, Johann Friedrich] (Ed.)

A collection of the best and latest travel descriptions with detailed excerpts, in which an accurate message is given about religion, governmental constitution, action, customs, natural history and other strange things of different countries and peoples. Translated from the English. 33 (of 35) vol. With 95 (mostly folded.) copper plates and maps.
Berlin, A. Mylius, 1765-1802. 8°. Uniform half leather volumes of the 19th century. (Corners bumped, partly rubbed a little, joints partly chipped
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Engelmann I, 113 - Griep/ L. II, 1223 u. 991st - Volume 1 in 3rd edition (1777), the remaining parts in first edition, in the translation by J. A. Martiny-Laguna et al. - Probably the most extensive collection of its time, after its editor often called the "Zückertsche" or also "Berliner". - The plates i. a. with views of Palmyra, Aleppo, Luxor, Isphahan, Mexico, Siam, Peking, Venice, London, Berne Glacier, Versailles (plan of the complexes), Travemünde, furthermore costumes, customs, flora and fauna, and with maps of the Nile River, North America (after Delisle), hemisphere with South Pole and Australia, Morocco, etc. - Without volumes 27 and 32 (with 8 plates). - Throughout somewhat stained, browned in places, 5 volumes more heavily damp-stained, 1 plate with tear in margin, volumes 12 and 18 with small wormholes, title page volume 16 minimally trimmed at margin, inner cover partly glue-shaded. - Old hs. Possession notes on intentions, mostly gest. Ex-libris.
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