[Rarebooks] FS: A German Tailor in Europe and the East -1844

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Holthaus, P.D. "WANDERINGS OF A JOURNEYMAN TAILOR THROUGH EUROPE AND THE
EAST, DURING THE YEARS 1824 to 1840. Translated by William Howitt"

London; Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman's:1844. 3rd edition.

Holthaus was a journeyman tailor, from Werdohl in Westpahlia, who took up
his knapsack, needle and pen and set off through the highways and byways
of the world, over Europe, Asia and Africa. Through Turkey, Wallachia,
Greece, Syria, Egypt, Italy and France he walks and sews. Howitt notes in
his Preface-

"We see here the German, both as master and man...marching off, and
establishing himself in the remotest countries, and amongst the strangest
people. The Germans...insinuate and settle themselves down in every
region, and often amongst people where we little expect to find them.
Holthaus himself works in Constantinople, Athens, Beyrout, etc. He depends
for the gratification of his passion for travel, solely on his needle. He
literally sews his way from continent to continent...His travels are not
only well written, and display a great deal of shrewd observation and
excellent feeling, but they have a peculiar advantage of observing
everyday life from a new point of view. Our traveler does not glide on
luxuriously in an easy-cushioned carriage, with his letter-book stuffed
with introductions to all the prominent men of every prominent place; but
he trudges on through desert-ways, works amid the swarming mass of strange
cities, meets with all the rubs and rebuffs attendant on his humble
station, and looks on things not as they show through the halo of wealth,
luxury and favour, but to the eyes of the multitude".

Hardcover. 4.5"x7", 286 pages, woodcut portrait frontispiece showing
Holthaus in a broad-brimmed hat, with his walking stick, knapsack, dagger,
tobacco pouch and pipe; old quarter leather and marbled boards, covers
scuffed, but else a nice copy. [09526] $275.00



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