Herrn Henrich Ludolff Benthems neu-eröffneter Engeländischer Kirch- und Schulen-Staat.

Luneburg : ǂb verlegts Johann Georg Lipper, ǂc 1694

[80], 720 p. ; 8vo.

This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.

Germany.

FAST ACC 272084

This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. Purchase made possible by The Kenneth C. Hogate Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "8vo (165 × 97 mm), pp. [80], 720; without the 4 pp. of errata at the end (as in the copies at Wolfenbüttel, Göttingen, and Halle), but complete with the etched frontispiece and 13 further plates (of which one double-paged, another two folding); etched title vignette, woodcut ornaments; some light offsetting; contemporary vellum, a little soiled, marbled edges, spine lettered in ms. ink. First edition of an important, if largely overlooked, travel account, dedicated to Sophia of Hanover (1630–1714), granddaughter of James I and the mother of George I, as he became. Benthem (1661–1723), a Hanoverian pastor who visited England in 1686–7, ‘is now utterly forgotten, but he deserves a place in the history of Anglo- German cultural relations. For he was the first German to give a full and systematic account of important aspects of English intellectual life— an account based on his own assiduous investigations and not on the antiquated reports of the sixteenth-century cosmographers. It is no exaggeration to say that Benthem’s book is the first systematic account of England by a German which does not smack in some degree of the medieval chronicle. It is also the first German study of this country which is thoroughly and, one may say, intelligently positive in its attitude’ (Robson-Scott, German Travellers in England, p. 93). The third chapter, ‘Von der Engelländischen Sprach-Kunst’, is an early introduction to English for German speakers (not in Alston, or ESTC)." Ordered from Simon Beattie Antiquarian Books, D9394, 2020-06-21, email quote.

272084