1739 · London
by (Misson, Maximillian.)
London: Printed for J. and J. Bonwick, C. Rivington, S. Birt, T. Osborne, E. Comyns, E. Wicksteed, C. Ward, and R. Chandler, and J. and R. Tonson, 1739. 2 volumes in 4. 8vo. 200 x 130 mm., [8 x 4 ½ inches]. Illustrated with 30 engraved plates, some folding, an engraved folding table, and woodcuts in the text. Bound in blue paper-covered boards backed in roan with volume designation number on spine. Roan leather spines scuffed, a few cracks to the joints, head caps missing; some rubbing to the edges with minor paper loss. Final leaves of vol. 1 part 1 (pp. 345-348) misbound and found in the preface in volume 1 at page xlvi.
This copy with the bookplates of J. B. Bury the classical scholar and historian of Medieval Rome and his son Michael Bury, the art and print historian specializing in early modern Italy. With a handwritten list of plates and an invoice written to J. B. Bury from Francis Edwards LTD., dated 5/5/1976.
Fifth English Edition. Originally published at the Hague in 1691 under the title Nouveau voyage d’Italie and quickly followed with an edition printed in London in 1695. Subsequent English edition were published in 1699, 1708, 1714 and 1739. The edition offered for sale here is enlarged with new engravings added.
Famous travel account written by the French Huguenot and Paris parliament councilor Maximillan Masson (1650-1722). In 1685 he emigrated to England fleeing after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, where he quickly established his credentials and became naturalized in 1687 and changed his name to Francis Maximilian Misson. That same year he became the tutor of the grandsons of the Duke of Ormond and guided them on the Grand Tour of Europe, visiting Holland, Flanders, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. His Nouveau voyage was an account of this trip:
Based upon his travel journal it was presented in the form of a series of letters. The text is resoundingly modern, comprising the sequential exposition of first-hand factual observations, none the less augmented by the critical perspective of a protestant travelling through a Catholic country. An English translation first appeared in London in 1695, followed by a corrected second edition in 1699.
The bulk of this four part travel book covers his visits to Santa Casa at Loreto and places of interest in and near Naples and Rome, and returned by stages through Bologna, Milan, Genoa, Turin.
D. C. A. Agnew. Protestant exiles from France, chiefly in the reign of Louis XIV, or, The Huguenot refugees and their descendants in Great Britain and Ireland (1886). Craig Spence, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (2004) . (Inventory #: 1315)
This copy with the bookplates of J. B. Bury the classical scholar and historian of Medieval Rome and his son Michael Bury, the art and print historian specializing in early modern Italy. With a handwritten list of plates and an invoice written to J. B. Bury from Francis Edwards LTD., dated 5/5/1976.
Fifth English Edition. Originally published at the Hague in 1691 under the title Nouveau voyage d’Italie and quickly followed with an edition printed in London in 1695. Subsequent English edition were published in 1699, 1708, 1714 and 1739. The edition offered for sale here is enlarged with new engravings added.
Famous travel account written by the French Huguenot and Paris parliament councilor Maximillan Masson (1650-1722). In 1685 he emigrated to England fleeing after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, where he quickly established his credentials and became naturalized in 1687 and changed his name to Francis Maximilian Misson. That same year he became the tutor of the grandsons of the Duke of Ormond and guided them on the Grand Tour of Europe, visiting Holland, Flanders, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. His Nouveau voyage was an account of this trip:
Based upon his travel journal it was presented in the form of a series of letters. The text is resoundingly modern, comprising the sequential exposition of first-hand factual observations, none the less augmented by the critical perspective of a protestant travelling through a Catholic country. An English translation first appeared in London in 1695, followed by a corrected second edition in 1699.
The bulk of this four part travel book covers his visits to Santa Casa at Loreto and places of interest in and near Naples and Rome, and returned by stages through Bologna, Milan, Genoa, Turin.
D. C. A. Agnew. Protestant exiles from France, chiefly in the reign of Louis XIV, or, The Huguenot refugees and their descendants in Great Britain and Ireland (1886). Craig Spence, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (2004) . (Inventory #: 1315)
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