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Hunter, William : Travels through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna, in 1792. To which are added, Several Tours in Hungary, in 1799 and 1800. In a Series of Letters to his Sister in England

(London: Printed for J. White, 1803)

Volume II only, of two volumes. Demy 8vo; full calf, with gilt-tooled margins to (detached) boards; marbled edges and endpapers; pp. xix + (i) + 486. Backstrip detached and absent; boards worn and detached; name signed on front pastedown; ownership hand-stamp to flyleaf; moderate foxing to outer leaves, sporadic light foxing elsewhere. Requires rebinding. Uncommon. Hunter's Letters received a very bad press in his lifetime, the chief merit of this third edition being its inclusion of notes on Hungary, in the second volume, not found in earlier compilations. The writer in 'The Edinburgh Review' comments: "The great secret of Mr Hunter's art consists in avoiding every thing which may in the smallest degree disturb the repose of his reader by exciting emotions of any sort; and this he chiefly accomplishes, by curiously selecting all those incidents which are of the most ordinary recurrence, mixing them up with such remarks as are equally plain, and interspersing them with long discussions, to prove what is either intuitively true, or intuitively false; thus, in both cases, contriving to render any exertion of intellect unnecessary in us, as it would be impossible in him."

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