Keysler, John George; Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain. Giving a true and just description of the present state of those countries; their Natural, Literary, and Political History; Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufacturers.....Illustrated with Copper Plates, engraved from drawings on the spot. In four volumes, 1st English edition, printed for A. Linde, London, 1756-57. Quarto, volume 1, pp. xiv, 6, 520, frontispiece map, three copper plates. Volume 2, pp. 2, 507, 1 plate. Volume 3, pp. 2, 385, 10. Volume 4, pp. 2, 290, 77 (appendix), 10, 3 plates. Total of eight plates.
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The set is complete and in a contemporary full calf with gilt spine titles and gilt ruled borders. Bindings have been nicely restored at edges and corners and scuffed areas on boards. Toning to margins of some text pages, penciled signature and some penciled notes on end sheets, rear end sheet and last index page water-stained on lower third. Over all a very good set.

Each volume in this massive set contains a series of letters which chronicle the authors travels, experiences, observations. In volume 1 he begins in Switzerland and travels to Italy. Along the route Keysler describes the cities and towns, the libraries, museums, castles, the antiquities, natural curiosities, mines, lapidaries, and the mountain ranges. Volume 2 starts in Rome and continues through parts of Italy. Much of the volume is a description of the antiquities, museums, libraries, art, architecture and the natural curiosities seen in the region. At the end is a chronological and historical list of the most celebrated painters beginning in the 13th century. Volume 3 continues in Italy with descriptions of Loretto and surrounding regions, several rivers and the Adriatic, Bologna, Modeno, Parma, Verona, Venice, Padua, and regions surrounding each. He describes the volcanoes, springs, mines, miners, the churches, the inquisition, libraries and museums, and caverns throughout the region. He then describes the country between Venice and Trieste and finishes with a detailed description of the quickilver mines of Idra, their discovery in 1497, the mine workings, smelting the ores and the miners and their superstitions. Volume 4 provides descriptions of the cities in Germany, Hungary and Austria and their cities, museums, libraries, natural curiosities, mines, and fossils. He describes the mines in Upper Hungary, the mining towns, mining of gold, and customs. The work finishes in the Lorrain region and is followed by an appendix of military roads, bridges, routes, towns, castles, villages, mountains etc.