Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain: Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of Those Countries, Their Natural, Literary and Political History, Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Coins, Antiquities, Curiosities of Art and Nature, &c. : Illustrated with Copper-plates Engraved from Drawings Taken on the Spot, Volume 1 |
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Page iv - KEYSLER (JOHN GEORGE), a learned antiquary of Germany, and fellow of the royal society in London, was born in 1689, at Thournau, a town belonging to the counts of Giech. His father, who was of the count's council, took an extraordinary care of his education; and, after a suitable preparation, sent him to the university of Halle, where he applied himself chiefly to the civil law ; not neglecting, in the mean time, the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, history, antiquity, and the sciences.
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| Title | Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain: Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of Those Countries, Their Natural, Literary and Political History, Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Coins ..., Volume 1 Eighteenth century collections online Travels Through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorrain: Giving a True and Just Description of the Present State of Those Countries, Their Natural, Literary and Political History, Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Coins, Antiquities, Curiosities of Art and Nature, &c. : Illustrated with Copper-plates Engraved from Drawings Taken on the Spot, Johann Georg Keyssler |
| Author | Johann Georg Keyssler |
| Illustrated by | Johann Georg Keyssler |
| Publisher | A. Linde, bookseller ... and T. Field, 1756 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 Sep 2005 |
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