A voyage to England : containing many things relating to the state of learning, religion, and other curiosities of that kingdom / by Mons. Sorbière. As also, Observations on the same voyage, by Dr. Thomas Sprat ... Lord Bishop of Rochester. With a letter of Monsieur Sorbière's, concerning the war between England and Holland in 1652: to all which is prefix'd his life, writ by M. Graverol. Done into English from the French original.
- Sorbière, Samuel, 1615-1670.
- Date:
- 1709
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Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre. English. 1709
Publication/Creation
London : Printed, and Sold by J. Woodward, in St. Christopher's-Alley in Threadneedle-Street, 1709.
Physical description
4 unnumbered pages, xix, 9 unnumbered pages, 190 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations (engraving) ; 20 cm (8vo)
References note
ESTC t152603
ESTC T152603
Goldsmiths', 4531
Notes
Second part has additional title page (p. [99]): Observations on Mons. de Sorbière's voyage into England. Written to Dr. Wren, Professor of Astronomy in Oxford. By Thomas Sprat ... London : Printed in the year 1708.--Pagination is continuous
Collation includes final blank leaf
"There have been two or three bantering treatises, published some years ago in English, which bore the title of Sorbiere's Voyage, but are no really so, this being the first translation of that piece that ever yet was extant in our language"--Preface (facing p. i)
Sorbiere's Letter to Mons. de Courcelles at Amsterdam, concerning the designs of the English in the war against the Dutch, 1652.--p. 181-190
Translation of: Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre. Paris : L. Billaine, 1664
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Sir W. Paton's executors Note: Binding: Contemp. panelled calf. From the library of Sir William Paton.
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