Letters on Silesia, Written on a Tour through that Country, in the Years 1800, 1801. Embellished with a new map

by John Quincy Adams

$1,250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

London: Printed for J. Budd, 1804. First edition. 8vo. xiii, 2 , 387, 1, ads pp. Folding map. Adams was serving as the Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Berlin at the time of travels through Silesia, a region in central Europe, now mostly in Poland, with parts in Germany and the Czech Republic; the first part describes a six-week tour and gives observations on the people, places and customs, with the second part giving a detailed historical,

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