NEALE, Adam. Travels Through Some Parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia and Turkey. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.
4to. Contemporary Irish diced calf (rebacked), boards ornamented in gilt and with central coat-of-arms of Waterford School, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers; pp. xiii, 295, 15 handcoloured aquatints on 11 leaves after drawing byu the author; one preliminary leaf and a few plates misbound, initial three leaves with marginal restorations, title-page with partlyu obliterated small stamp, evcen toning to plates, a good copy with the 1818-printed announcement for the examinations at Waterford School (now De La Salle College, Waterford) pasted onto front fly-leaf.
First edition. The Scottish army physician and writer Adam Neale travelled through Germany, Poland, Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire to Constantinople to take up his position as physician to the British embassy. He encountered Europe suffering from the Napoleonic Wars. Neale travelled an almost straight line from Essex to Heligoland and Husum on the main land and then over Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Vienna down the Danube to the Dniester and further on to Istanbul.
Abbey 19; Atabey 859; Blackmer 1186.
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