A history of curiosity : the theory of travel, 1550-1800 / Justin Stagl.

Chur [Switzerland] : Harwood Academic Publishers, [1995], ©1995.

viii, 344 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: BNA

The methodizing of travel in the sixteenth century : a tale of three cities -- Rerum memoria : early modern enquiries and documentation centres -- Imagines mundi : allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Englightenment -- The man who called himself George Psalmanazar, or, The problems of the authenticity of ethnographic description -- Josephinism and social research : the "patriotic traveller" of Count Leopold Berchtold -- August Ludwig Schlözer and the study of mankind according to peoples -- From the private to the sponsored traveller : Volney's reform of travel instruction and the French Revolution.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 297-329) and indexes