deutscher Verleger (1777-1846) "Friedrich Campens Tagebuch, während seiner Reise, angetreten den 6. Februar 1802". Autograph manuscript travel journal signed. Hamburg, Oldenburg, Amsterdam, Paris u. a. O. Deutsche Handschrift in verschiedenen Tinten auf festem Bütten (Wasserzeichen: Pro Patria). 35 nn. Bll. (und zahlr. leere). Pergamentband der Zeit mit übergreifender Deckellasche, Falttasche im Vorsatz und Schließband. 12mo (159 x 96 mm).
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Previously unknown source for the life of the noted Nuremberg publisher A. F. A. Campe (1777-1846). The diary sheds light on Campe's travels in the spring of 1822, of which hitherto nothing was known save that he visited Paris and probably London, after which he made a brief trip to Italy, supposedly accompanied by the Nuremberg deacon G. J. F. Seidel, whose sermons Campe would go on to publish (see Reynst, p. 27). - Indeed, Gotthold Emanuel Friedrich Seidel (1774-1838) visited Paris with Campe and is variously mentioned in his journal, but in fact the two travelled to France independently of each other.
- The four-week journey, parts of which are here described in the traveller's own hand, took Campe from Hamburg via Harburg, Bremen, Oldenburg, and Leer to the Netherlands, where he saw Neuschanz, Windschoten, Groningen, Leeuwarden, then from Harlingen by boat to Enhuizen and by coach on to Amsterdam (where several days were spent), then via Haarlem and Leiden to The Hague, Rotterdam, Breda, Antwerp, and finally Brussels. He reached Valenciennes, destroyed in 1793, on 26 February: never, Campe writes, had he seen "a sadder and more outrageous sight of the horrors of war". On 28 February Campe arrived in Paris, where he visited the Palais Royal, the Louvre, the Tuileries and the Pantheon. He lodged at the Hotel Beauvalet, where his friend Seidel also stopped off. The journal ends abruptly on March 2nd..