[Rarebooks] FS: 1844- Tailors Wandering Through Europe and the East

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Holthaus, P.D.  "WANDERINGS OF A JOURNEYMAN TAILOR THROUGH EUROPE AND THE
EASTt, 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.  [9526]  $275.00

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