Bishop Burnet's Travels through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. Describing their religion, learning, government, customs, natural history, trade, &c., and illustrated with curious observations on the buildings, paintings, antiquities and other curiosities in art and nature. With a detection of frauds and folly of popery and superstition in some flagrant instances, also characters of several eminent persons, and many other memorable things worthy the attention of the curious / Written by the bishop to the Honourable Robert Boyle. To which is added, an appendix, containing remarks on Switzerland and Italy, by a person of quality, and communicated to the author, a table of contents and a character of the bishop and his writings.

  • Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
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Bishop Burnet's Travels through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. Describing their religion, learning, government, customs, natural history, trade, &c., and illustrated with curious observations on the buildings, paintings, antiquities and other curiosities in art and nature. With a detection of frauds and folly of popery and superstition in some flagrant instances, also characters of several eminent persons, and many other memorable things worthy the attention of the curious / Written by the bishop to the Honourable Robert Boyle. To which is added, an appendix, containing remarks on Switzerland and Italy, by a person of quality, and communicated to the author, a table of contents and a character of the bishop and his writings. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for T. Payne ..., 1750.

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xxiv, 310 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; (12mo)

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ESTC N32010

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First published at Amsterdam, 1686, under title: Some letters, containing an account of what seem'd most remarkable in travelling thro' Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c. in the years 1685 and 1686
The appendix first appeared in the 3d edition, Rotterdam, 1687.

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