Epistolae itinerariae, ex auctoris schedis postumis recensitae, suppletae, digestae, annotationibus [...] adornatae, cura & studio Henrici Christiani Henninii.

4to: [18]-260-[14] pp. (some marginal soiling).

Contemp. mottled leather, gilt spine with 5 raised bands and morocco label, sp. edges (sl. rubbed, sm. def. to front cover). Very good copy.

Description of "a writer’s tour through Central Europe, Germany, Hungary and Italy, meeting learned people, seeing curiosities, recording wonders and examining libraries. The interests of Toll or Tollius (d. 1696), who was an academic and trained physician, include chemistry and alchemy, and he writes on minerals and mineral waters, on chemical gold and medals produced from it, and on scientists [...] Toll’s book is composed of six discursive letters, all indexed together. The original recipients were the politician, colonial administrator and Fellow of the Royal Society Nicolaes Witsen (1641-1717) (two letters); the scholar Johann Georg Graevius (1632-1703); the philosopher Gerard de Vries (1648-1705); the physician and scholar Theodoor Jansson (1657-1712); and the Prussian nobleman Dodo von Knyphausen (1641-1698). The book is edited by the insectologist Heinrich Christian von Hennin (ca. 1655-1703), who includes notes and observations at the end of each letter." (Cadogan). Engr. front., 16 full-page (incl. 4 double-page) & 2 half-page engr. (views of Buda etc., ill., inscriptions). Title printed in red and black.
Ref. STCN. - Ferguson II:459.
Prov. "I. F. L. B. de Cler Seren. Elect. Colon. Consiliar. [...]" (large armorial bookpl.).