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Interlarded with unexpected details and anecdotes
[TRAVEL - LOW COUNTRIES].Billets in the Low Countries, 1814 to 1817. In a series of letters. Embellished with coloured plates.     London, W. Shackell for J.J. Stockdale, 1818. 8vo. Modern half purple morocco with gilt title on spine, marbled endpapers, uncut. Engraved frontispiece of a 'Dutch peasant' and 3 engraved plates showing resp. a 'Flying bridge' or chain ferry, a 'Shrimp cathcher' and a curious 'Pulpit in the Netherlands', all 4 plates after the original drawings by the author and all handcoloured. (2) 228 pp. Very rare, witty and curious description of a journey through the Low Countries interlarded with unexpected and unusual details and anecdotes by an anonymous Englishman, who visited the Low Countries just after the allied victory of the Battle of Waterloo. Arriving in Hellevoetsluis he started with a typical Dutch dinner. Among other cities, he also visited Rotterdam, The Hague, and in that city a Cabinet where the proprietor secretly showed him a little phial filled with sand mixed with the blood of Van Oldenbarneveldt after his execution in 1619, devotedly kept by him as a symbol of liberty. He saw the sea at Scheveningen and the sand yachts on the beach, Leiden and its University including the Anatomical theatre, Haarlem and Mr. Hope's House there, the Palace of Louis Buonaparte in Amsterdam; in Breda he saw the monument of the Prince of Nassau and continued his way from there to Nimegue. He traveled to Belgium to visit Brussels and Antwerp were he went to the carnival and the Traineau parties. Also the stone wall that protects Ostend from the tide, Aque at Nieuport and "Le Drapeau Blanc" at Dunkerque were visited. Many more towns, cities and villages were visited and all the festivities and adventures were written in letters and described in this work in a very vivid way. Good uncut copy.
Not in Tiele, nor in Tooley, English Books with coloured plates 1790 to 1860 or Abbey, Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860; not in any of the costume bibliographies available to us.
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