[Rarebooks] FS: A Tailor Wanders Europe and Asia in 1840

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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.  [9526]  $275.00

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