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Young, Arthur
(1741-1820)Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, 1793. Dublin, Cross etc., 1793. - Zweite Auflage

Young, Arthur. Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, 1793. Undertaken more particularly with a View of ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity, of the Kingdom of France. To which is added, the Register of a Tour into Spain. 2 Bände. XIII, 681 S., 2 Bl.; 1 Bl., 571 S., 1 Bl. 2 (von 3) Kupferkarten. Hellbraunes Kalbsleder d. Z. (berieben, mit teils hinterlegten Fehlstellen sowie Rücken brüchig) mit goldgeprägtem RSchild. Dublin, Cross etc., 1793.
Brunet V, 1510. Cox I, 161f. Graesse VI2, 498. Vgl. Fossati Bellani 121. – Zweite Auflage der Reisebeschreibung zu Frankreich von Arthur Young (1741-1820). Die erste Ausgabe erschien im Jahre 1792 in Bury St. Edmunds. "Young's accounts of his travels are deservedly among the most famous that the century produced. He made three trips to the Continent, the first to the Pyrenees in 1787, the second to France in 1788, and the third, which includes Italy, in 1789. He is unexcelled in relating personal adventures, in observations of the agricultural situation, and in descriptions of the many friends he met. He was near enough to the outbreak of the French Revolution to perceive that something unusual was astir, and even experienced some personal contacts with the disordered state of affairs" (Cox). – Mit Exlibris auf dem Vorsatz "Charles Philip Iohn. Cave". Leicht gebräunt am Rand, vereinzelt leicht knickspurig sonst gutes Exemplar.