A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany. With anecdotes relating to some eminent characters [Two Volumes]

Dublin: Wm. Wilson, 1786. Very Good. Dublin: Printed for Wm. Wilson Bookseller and Stationer, 1786. Two volumes; 12mos (17.5cm.); full contemporary calf, red and brown gilt spine labels; xiv,310; x,298,[2]pp. (collated complete); steel-engraved pictorial imprint to both volumes. Leather a bit dried and scuffed at margins, some brief soil, spines both darkened, occasional contemporary marginalia to Vol. II (see below), else Very Good and sound.

Highly popular travelogue published as a series of letters by the notable physician and Presbyterian minister John Moore (1729-1802). Moore writes of the good breeding of the French; the Genevan's fondness for "the pomp of war"; German women's placid beauty; and the superstitiousness of his Swiss Catholic acquaintances--to which a contemporary reader has added in pencil, "the author may apply to the same to his own religion."

Publisher's advertisements printed on final leaf of text in Vol. II, all for "Medicines sold Genuine" -- Peruvian bark, Opodeldoc (soap-based liniment according to the internet), fever powder, and analeptic pills.

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