Continental Travellers Oracle Maxims Foreign by Eldon Abraham (2 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. volume 1 only ( of 2 ) cr 8vo, viii,277pp, contemporary quarter calf with leather corners and marbled boards, leather bit rubbed and aged and boards surface scuffed but binding good and sound and good as is , a little leather restorer of choice will help of course, old name to top of title page not affecting any print, the first 10 leaves or so have a ( reducing ) very minor water mark to lower right hand corner, this is very modest and nothing to worry about, contents good clean and sound, again VOLUME 1 ONLY, hard to find work by dr abraham eldon ( pseud for thomas wyse ). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Two minute tears to spine ends. Else a handsome and tight copy with the slightest hint of slanting. Title page blindstamped. ; Author's note: "To the yet untravelled portion of the British Nation (if such there be) the following work (in which the art of travelling is made easy, and the most ignorant and idolent rendered, in the space of a few months, illustrious tourists, tour writers, and diners out, ) is presented, with all due tenderness and humility, by their fellow-countryman and devour well-wisher, THE AUTHOR." - In short - these are observations, travel tips, dos and don'ts for the traveller to the European continent. - "[Eldon] warned travellers, especially young single women, not to travel to the Continent. Italy was then a dangerous country 'infested with robbers of all hues'. Young women travellers should be taught that the Continent is a lion's den, Frenchmen and Italians little better than two-legged beasts, he said. In fact Eldon is so protective of single women that he believes they should avoid travel, stay at home and read the Bible." Quoted from: A. A. Kelly, Wandering Women. Two Centuries of Travel out of Ireland, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1995, 8, in Ireland and Europe: the "European Experience" in Selected Works of Modern Irish Fiction by Dore Fischer. - The two books are bound in one volume in buckram. Gilt spine lettering. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; viii, 277, 285, [2] pages.