Remarks On several Parts of Europe: Relating chiefly to the History, Antiquities and Geography Of Those Countries Through which the Author has travel'd; As France, the Low Countries, Lorrain, Alsatia, Germany, Savoy, Tyrol, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. Illustrated with Several Maps, Plans, and above Forty Copper Plates. Vol. I. (II.) By J. Breval, Esq; late Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge. ...
London:: Printed for Bernard Lintot at the Cross-Keys between the Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet,, 1726.
Physical Description
2 vols.; 400 mm. (Folio).
General Note
Vol. I: [12], 257, [5] p., frontis., [10] pl. (3 fold.). The first pl. is a map. - Vol. II: [2], 327, [5] p., frontis., [33] pl. (7 fold.).
Contents
Vol. I: {Frontis., t.p., dedic.] - Preface - The Names Of The Subscribers - [Text, with pl.] - Index. - Vol. II: [Frontis., t.p.] - [Text, with pl.] - Index.
Responsibility Note
Both frontispieces are signed as drawn by L. Cheron and engraved by E. Kirkall. The plates are not signed by a draughtsman, but twelve are signed by E. Kirkall as engraver.
The work is dedicated by the author to George Viscount Malpas, afterwards third earl of Cholmondeley ('we saw most of these countries together').
References
ESTC, T89034
Summary Note
The title of the second volume differs from that of the first only in having 'Italy, Spain and Portugal' in place of 'Italy and Spain', and in having a quotation from Virgil in place of one from Lucretius.
In the first volume Breval describes his travels in Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and western France; in the second, his travels in Savoy, Switzerland, Austria, southern Germany, northern Italy and Rome, Portugal, Spain and Gibraltar.
In 1738 Breval published a sequel entitled Remarks On Several Parts of Europe, Relating Chiefly to Their Antiquities and History. Collected upon the Spot In several Tours since the Year 1723.
Reproductions
An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale).
Provenance
Acquired between 1769 and 1802. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Copy Note
Two volumes bound in one.
Binding Note
18th-century vellum; red morocco spine-labels lettered 'J. Breval Remarks Gr. Pap. Vol. I. London 1726'.
Antiquities - Inscriptions, Latin - British - Europe - Description and travel - History - 18th century
Travel literature - Maps - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century