[Rarebooks] FS: Newly Added- 1844 Wandering Tailor

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

>From our newly released catalog-
RECENT ACQUISITIONS FOR SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
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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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