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Thomas Platter. Beschreihung der Reisen durch Frankreich, Spanien, England und die Niederhnde 1595-1600. Im Auftrag der Historischen und Antiquarischen Gesellschaft zu Basel herausgegeben von Rut Keiser. Basel-Stuttgart: Verlag Schwabe & Co., 1968. 2 vols, xxxi+951 pp. 66 illus. SF 120.

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Thomas Platter. Beschreihung der Reisen durch Frankreich, Spanien, England und die Niederhnde 1595-1600. Im Auftrag der Historischen und Antiquarischen Gesellschaft zu Basel herausgegeben von Rut Keiser. Basel-Stuttgart: Verlag Schwabe & Co., 1968. 2 vols, xxxi+951 pp. 66 illus. SF 120.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

William Hammer*
Affiliation:
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

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1 The only one which comes to mind is that by Hermann Kirchner (d. 1620), Professor of Poetry and History at Marburg, a declamation preserved in an English translation (the original Latin edition seems to be lost) and incorporated in Thomas Coryate's collection: Coryats Crudities, hastily gobled up in five months travells inFrance, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia… Helvetia … some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands … that is to say, a most elegant oration, first written in … Latine .. .by Hermannus Kirchnerus … in praise of travell in generall… Another also composed by the author of the former, in praise of travell in Gertnanie in particular … . (London, printed by W. S., 1611, see STC 5808).