Thienen-Adlerflycht, Luise. Diary of a journey from Frankfurt via Darmstadt, Hei…
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Thienen-Adlerflycht, Luise.

Diary of a journey from Frankfurt via Darmstadt, Heidelberg to Baden-Baden and after a stay of several days further via Freiburg, Bad Krozingen to Basel, Solothurn, Bern, Thun, Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald, Meyringen, Lungern, Rigi, Lucerne (3 year wedding anniversary on August 25), Zurich, Neuhaus, Rhine Falls, Schaffhausen Engen Spaichingen to Dotternhausen to Cotta, from July 29 to September 1, 1836. German manuscript on paper. Cl.8°. With a pasted-in lithogr. map (of Germany with postal routes), 4 ins. Cartoons with 6 landscape drawings and sketches in pencil and 1 full-page pencil sketch. Pencil sketch in text. 49 inscr. P., 1 p. in pencil with list of editions a. 6 w. blind emb. Blind embossed illustrated oldr. notebook with pencil tabs. (Somewhat rubbed, without pencil). Interesting travel diary. Luise Adlerflycht (1805-1876) was the wife of the chamberlain Konrad Christoph von Thienen (1804-1884), who had the double name Thienen-Adlerflycht after the extinction of the male line of the Adlerflycht family (1835). Luise's sister Sophie von Adlerflycht (1801-1838) was the wife of the publisher Johann Friedrich Freiherr von Cotta von Cottendorf (1796-1863). - The drawings with landscapes (i.a. Pilatus), 1 p. with table of hotels used and 1 p. table of departure and arrival times, the endpapers i.a. with lithogr. views of Paris and a movable calendar. - Typescript transcription enclosed. D

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