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The fictional correspondence of an Asian prince and his Danish friend

[PONTOPPIDAN, Erik].
Gedenkwaardige, vermaakelyke, En in deze tyden zeer  nodige, nuttige en leerzaame Deensche Brieven, waarin  Op eene aangenaame wyze de Reize en byzonders ontmoetingen van een Asiatisch Prins, genaamt Mendoza, Door verscheide Landen en gedeeltens der Wereldt, als Indien, Portugal, Spanjen, Italien, Frankrijk, Engeland, Holland, Duitsland en Deenemarken gedaan en ondergaan, met oogmerk voornamentlyk om Opregte en Waare Christenen aldaar te zoeken, dog van het gezogte zeer weinig gevonden en ontdekt hebbende, beschreven worden. Tot algemeen nut, vermaak, leeringe en opwekkinge zyn dezelve vertaalt, en met verscheide nuttige zaken, gewigtige waarheden en aanmerkingen omtrent de helft vermeerdert, door Joh. Wilh. Heyman.

With 3 titles printed in red and black.

With 3 titles printed in red and black.



Leyden, Abraham Honkoop, 1749. 3 vols. Contemp. half roan. With 3 titles printed in red and black. 588, (8); 514, (6); 640, (8) pp.

First edition of the first three volumes of a curious popular sort of "spectatorial" publication. It contains letters written by an Asian Prince to a friend in Denmark, with whom he had had a fine conversation about thruth and true christianity when visiting Denmark. So the Prince keeps writing letters to inform his friend over his travels through India and Europe, at the one hand informing his friend on all sight-seeing particulars, and at the other hand describing his conversations with the people he meets on the subject of truth and true christianity.
The letters were published in weekly issues, one letter each Wednesday. At the end of each letter a publisher's note informs the reader about its weekly publication, and gives a long list of booksellers in numerous cities where to obtain them. The last letter of the third volume informs the reader that still a number of separate letters is available for those who want to complete their set, and that only a few copies of the complete set are left. The letters are numbered through over all three volumes, although each volume has its own title, pagination and index, from 1  to 68. In 1759 the first three volumes were republished and continued  by another four volumes, published from 1759 till 1771, also at Leyden, but by another publisher, Johannes Hasebroek. The continuation no longer was written by the popular Danish author Erik Pontoppidan, but was from the hand of J.A. Kayzer.

Good set.- (Binding sl. rubbed; covers newly papered; first title sl. stained).
Buisman 1819 (7 vols, incl. continuation).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Denmark  Dutch  Popular Books 

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