TRAVEL. – Charles-Lewis, Baron de POLLNITZ. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz. Being Observations he made in his late Travels from Prussia thro’ Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. London: Daniel Browne, 1739. 2 vols., second edition, 8vo (198 x 116mm.) 1p. publisher’s advertisements, indices, translated into English by Stephen Whately. (Browning to blanks, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary full calf (inner hinges weakened, extremities rubbed, large scrape to upper cover of vol. 1, minor loss to spine ends). Note: after his adventures around the courts of Europe, Pollnitz returned to Berlin, securing a position in the court of King Frederick William I of Prussia and then with Frederick the Great, of whom he was a favourite. Provenance: William Gooch (ink name to title) (2).