Letters of a Prussian Traveller; descriptive of a tour through Sweden, Prussia, Austria, Hungary, Istria, The Ionian Islands, Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, Rhodes, The Morea, Greece, Calabria, Italy, The Tyrol, The Banks of the Rhine, Hanover, Holstein, Denmark, Westphalia and Holland. Interspersed with anecdotes of Distinguished Characters and illustrations of Political Occurrences. TWO VOLUMES.
Bramsen, John.
8vo. xix, 326 pp., 1 full-page illustration / 397 pp., half-title in volume 2 (not called for in volume 1), contemporary calf, professionally rebacked, gilt filaments on covers and spine, title gilt on raised spine, appendices to include a copy of Turkish passport in volume 2, pencil note on front fly leaf of volume 1, otherwise a very good copy in beautiful binding, printed for Henry Colburn, London, first edition, 1818.
Synopsis
A French version was published in Paris the same year. A second English edition appeared in 1820 under slightly a different title: Travels in Egypt, Syria, Cyprus, The Morea…..
Bramsen, who was of German origin, settled in England in the early part of the 19th century. He left England in August 1813 and did not return until December 1815; he spent most of this time in the company of Sir John Maxwell. A year was spent in Italy and six months in the Levant, most of it in Greece. The work contains a number of interesting anecdotes.
Bibliographic references: Blackmer 194; Hilmy I, 86; Ioannou, Cyprus and the Levant, from the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, I, p.56 (second edition); Weber I, 84 (second edition); not in Atabey.
