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The German spy : or, Familiar letters from a gentleman on his travels thro' Germany, to his friend in England. Containing an exact and entertaining description of the principal cities and towns... An account of the customs and manners of the people. Remarks on their language, interests and policies ... Interspersed with the secret history and characters of the several princes and princesses, and other the most considerable personages in the empire of Germany

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Title: The German spy : or, Familiar letters from a gentleman on his travels thro' Germany, to his friend in England. Containing an exact and entertaining description of the principal cities and towns... An account of the customs and manners of the people. Remarks on their language, interests and policies ... Interspersed with the secret history and characters of the several princes and princesses, and other the most considerable personages in the empire of Germany

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Classmark: BC Trv/GER

Additional creator(s): Lediard, Thomas (1685-1743) (Other)

Related people: Lediard, Thomas

Publisher: Printed for T. Cooper

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1740

Language: English

Size and medium: svi, []12]-436 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/279357

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000978389705181

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48 letters, 29 dated from Hamburg.


Editor's preface signed Thomas Ledyard.


"I have accepted of... [Mr. Ledyard's] offer of adding some notes."--The editor to the reader, p. xvi.

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Signature of William Vaughan, 1753, on front and back flyleaves. Signature of Evan Lloyd Vaughan, 1785, on front flyleaf

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