Description: BISHOP BURNET'S TRAVELS THROUGH FRANCE, ITALY, GERMANY, AND SWITZERLAND Describing Their Religion, Learning, Government, Customs, Natural History, Trade, &c. And Illustrated with Curious Observations on the Buildings, Paintings, Antiquities and Other Curiosities in Art and Nature. With a Detection of Frauds and Folly of Popery and Superstition in Some Flagrant Instances, also Characters of Several Eminent Persons, and Many Other Memorable Things Worthy the Attention of the Curious Written by the Bishop to the Hon. ROBERT BOYLE EDINBURGH: SANDS, MURRAY, AND COCHRAN 1752 Bishop Burnet's travels during his exile in Europe. Gilbert Burnet (18 September 1643 – 17 March 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian. He was always closely associated with the Whig party, and was one of the few close friends in whom King William III confided. Upon the succession of the Roman Catholic King James II in 1685, Burnet requested permission to go abroad, which James heartily consented to. He left on 11 May and reached Paris at the end of that month. He travelled through Switzerland to Italy, where Pope Innocent XI offered him an audience, which Burnet declined on account of his poor knowledge of the Italian language. After more months of travelling across France, Switzerland and Germany he arrived at Utrecht, Netherlands, in May 1686. He was sent letters from the court of William, Prince of Orange, and his wife Princess Mary inviting him to take up residence at The Hague. When William's fleet set sail for England in October 1688, Burnet was made William's chaplain. Burnet was appointed to preach the coronation sermon, on 11 April 1689.[From Wikipedia] 16 x 9 cm. xxiv + 258 pp. A good reading or binding copy, front board and preliminary pages detached, back-strip mostly missing. Crease to the top corner of the last few pages but otherwise the pages remain clean and tidy. A rare book that would be worth having fixed up. Images sell! Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com.
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Author: G Burnet
Binding: Disbound
Non-Fiction Subject: Travel Guides & Travel Stories
Original/Facsimile: Original
Publisher: Sands, Murray and Cochran
Region: Europe
Year Printed: 1752
Language: English
Weight: 220 g
