TRAVELS THROUGH PORTUGAL AND SPAIN IN 1772 AND 1773

SubTitulo: by Richard Twiss, Esq. F.R.S.
Autor: TWISS, RICHARD ( 1747-1821 )
Edição: with copper- plates; and An Appendix.
Descrição: London : printed for the author, and sold by G. Robinson, T. Becket, and J. Robson, 1775. . Boa enc. de lomb. em pele; IV+ 465+ (6) págs.+ 7 gravs extratexto ( sendo 3 desdobráveis a 1ª que é um "Map of Spain and Portugal", a 5ª " prospect of the Alhambra" e a 6ª a " bull- fight in the amphitheatre of Cadiz " ): il. ; 30 cm. Bom exemplar. " After having waited eighteen days at Falmouth for a favourable wind, I embarked on board one of the packets, on the 12th of November, 1772, at four in the afternoon; and, on the 17th, early in the morning, we saw the Rock; at one in the afternoon anchored in the Tagus, and landed at Lisbon at six in the evening. This speedy passage made amends for the tedious delay in Falmouth. (...) Lisbon is pretty nearly in the same ruinous state it was the day after the earthquake in 1755. Indeed there are many new buildings carrying on, but the streets are yet in various places stopped up by the ruins occasioned by the devastations; which recalled to my mind the similar situation in which I had seen the city of Dresden, caused by war and fire. (...) " In- págs. 1- 2.