74-2645
(Muralt,B.L.).
Lettres sur les anglois et les francois et sur les voyages. (Genf, Fabri & Barrilot) 1725. 7 Bl., 543 S. Ldr. d. Zt. mit Rverg. (Berieben u. bestoßen, tls. beschabt, einige kl. Wurmgänge, Kap. u. Ecken tls. läd, Gelenke tls. eingerissen).
Barbier II, 1302. Cioranescu 47696. Lonchamp 2166. Erste Ausgabe der objektiven und einflussreichen Reisebeschreibung. - "His travels in France and England took place in 1694-95. While in England he picked up some deistic views which on his return to Bern caused his banishment. He then began destroying the letters he had written recording his impressions of France and England, but fortunately most of them were rescued and published... he was keenly interested in the stage, but in dramatic matters he was a disciple of Boileau" (Cox III, 88). Die "Lettres" enthielten auch einen Hinweis auf Shakespeare und beeinflussten Voltaire, Rousseau und A.v.Haller. - Tls. ger. fleckig bzw. gebr.
