Netherlands - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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The present state of Holland, or a description of the United Provinces. Wherein is contained. a particular account of the Hague, ... To which are added, directions for making the tour of the provinces
Date: 1765- E-books
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Another traveller! or cursory remarks and tritical [sic] observations made upon a journey through part of the Netherlands in the latter end of the year 1766. By Coriat junior. In two volumes.
Paterson, Samuel, 1728-1802.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]-69- E-books
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A tour through Holland , Dutch Brabant, the Austrian Netherlands, and part of France: in which is included a description of Paris and its Environs: by the late Harry Peckham, Esq. One of His Majesty's Council, and Recorder of the City of Chichester. With this fourth edition is given a map of Holland and the Netherlands, from the last surveys.
Peckham, Harry, d. 1787.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- E-books
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A Tour to Spa , Through the Austrian Netherlands, and French Flanders; and from Spa to Dusseldorff, up the Rhine, to Frankfort; and through Manheim, Strasburg, Nancy, and Rheims, to St. Omer, and Calais.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- E-books
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The Traveller's companion and guide through France, Flanders, Brabant, and Holland . In which is a description of the courts of France and Brussels; and all things curious in the churches, chapels, convents, &c. in those several countries; with a particular account of their different coins, compared with their value in English. A work much wanted, and never before published; being calculated for the benefit and information of all strangers going into those countries, either on business or pleasure, and to prevent their being imposed on; for, by following this book, they will travel at near one half of the expence. To which is annexed, by way of appendix, a list of the post-roads in France, great part of Flanders, and from Paris to Madrid in Spain; as settled and ordered, February, 13, 1753, by count d'Argenson, grand master, and sur-intendant general of all the general post offices in France; shewing the exact number of leagues or miles from place to place, and what is to be paid for post-horse, post-boy, &c. Translated from the French.
Date: 1753