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Travelling through Holland and along the Rhine in the beginning of the 19th century

CARR, John.
Voyage en Hollande, et dans le midi de l'Allemagne, sur les deux rives du Rhin, dans l'été de 1806. Traduit de l'Anglais par madame Keralio-Robert.

With 12 folding stipple-engraved<B> </B>plates (ca. 13 x 20 cm) with a yellowish layer to make them like aquatints (as in the original English edition), showing views of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Scheveningen, Leyden, Utrecht, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz, Frankfurt and Darmstadt.

With 12 folding stipple-engraved<B> </B>plates (ca. 13 x 20 cm) with a yellowish layer to make them like aquatints (as in the original English edition), showing views of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Scheveningen, Leyden, Utrecht, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz, Frankfurt and Darmstadt.

With 12 folding stipple-engraved<B> </B>plates (ca. 13 x 20 cm) with a yellowish layer to make them like aquatints (as in the original English edition), showing views of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Scheveningen, Leyden, Utrecht, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz, Frankfurt and Darmstadt.

With 12 folding stipple-engraved<B> </B>plates (ca. 13 x 20 cm) with a yellowish layer to make them like aquatints (as in the original English edition), showing views of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Scheveningen, Leyden, Utrecht, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz, Frankfurt and Darmstadt.

With 12 folding stipple-engraved<B> </B>plates (ca. 13 x 20 cm) with a yellowish layer to make them like aquatints (as in the original English edition), showing views of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Scheveningen, Leyden, Utrecht, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz, Frankfurt and Darmstadt.



Paris, Léopold Collin, 1809. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt with title and vol. nr. lettered in gold on red morocco labels, gilt triple filet borders on sides, blue marbled edges. With 12 folding stipple-engraved plates (ca. 13 x 20 cm) with a yellowish layer to make them like aquatints (as in the original English edition), showing views of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Scheveningen, Leyden, Utrecht, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Coblenz, Mainz, Frankfurt and Darmstadt. (12), LXVIII, 332; (4), 458 pp.

First edition of the translation into French by Mme. Keralio Robert of this highly interesting travel account through Holland and along the Rhine till Darmstadt, written by John Carr, made after the original English edition, A tour through Holland, along the right and left banks of the Rhine to the south of Germany, in de summer and autumn of 1806 (London, for Richard Phillips, 1807). The 12 fine plates are according to the translator's preface engraved by William Daniell Jr., in England, after the drawings by the author; in fact they are copies in stipple-engraving after the aquatints by William Daniel Jr. in the original edition. The French editor only selected twelve of the 20 original aquatints, also leaving out the map of the Rhine.
This travel account deserved attention because it gives, next to the description of the places visited (Rotterdam, Delft, The Hague, Leiden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Zeist, Arnhem. Düsseldorf, Bonn, Andernach, Koblenz, St. Goar, Bacharach, Offenbach till Darmstadt), lively reports on the history of Holland, the habits of the inhabitants - such as their love for smoking and coffee drinking -, the Dutch theatre, Dutch painting, including interesting stories on the great painters of the Golden Age (Rembrandt, Frans Hals, etc.), and the Herrenhuthers, the Zinzendorff brotherhood at Zeist.

Sir John Carr (1772-1832) was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, but from reasons of health he found it advisable to travel and he has published several accounts of his journeys in different European countries. These travel accounts obtained a wide circulation on account of their light, gossipy style.

Good set.- (Some occ. spotting, not affecting plates).
Bodel Nijenhuis 216; Landwehr, Studies in Dutch books with coloured plates  252; Quérard II, p. 60; DNB IX, p. 170-1; cf. Abbey, Travel, 216 (English ed.).

Related Subjects: 19th Century  Aquatints  Cartography  French  Netherlands  Travel & Voyages 

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