The first English Guide Book to the Continent
- Author
- ROWLANDS [alias VERSTEGAN], Richard
- Title
- The post for diuers partes of the world to trauaile from one notable Citie unto an other, with a description of the antiquitie of diuers famous Cities in Europe.
- Publisher
- Thomas East,
- Publication place
- London,
- Publication date
- 1576.
- Price
- £10,000
- Reference
- 1327
Description
8to (140 by 93 mm), title within typographic ornamental border, woodcut initials. (Lacks second part [8 leaves], clean tear to fol. F1.), 19th-century half brown morocco and marbled boards, spine in black morocco gilt-lettered.
Notes
FIRST EDITION. The author states in his preface that the work is an expanded translation from the German, and that his text was also published in French and Italian.
Provenance
Provenance: Ashburnham, Bertram, Fourth earl of (1797-1878, small wax seal on front paste-down); Sir Thomas Phillipps (note on front paste-down and binding); William P. Davisson (his sale, Christie's New York, 19 April 1999, lot 308).
Bibliography
STC 21360.
