Inscribed by Adenauer
A Tour through Holland along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, in the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806.
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1807.
Price: $1,000.00
About the item
Carr, Sir John. First edition. With map and 20 aquatints. xvi, 468 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed by Adenauer. Contemporary tree calf. In modern presentation cloth box.
Item #29951
Inscribed on the front free-endpaper from Konrad Adenauer to his Friend the Famous American Industrialist Dannie Heineman, Bonn November, 1952.
Carr was a notorious writer, poet and illustrator, best known for his series of aquatint plate travel books depicting British and Continental views, such as this one of the Rhine. He was Knighted in 1805 and satirized by Walter Scott and others. Byron begged to be omitted from his Descriptive Travels in Spain (1811) and pilloried Carr in a cancelled passage of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809). His work is in the British Museum.
