Beschreibung:

RATGEB, Jacob. Warhaffte Beschreibung zweyer Raisen, welcher erste (die Badenfahrt genannt) ... Friderich Hezog zu Wrttemberg unnd Teckh ... im Jahr 1592 ... in das Königreich Engellandt: hernach im zurruck ziehen durch die Niderlandt ... verrichtet. Die ander, so hochgemelter Frst ... im Jahre 1599 in Italien gethan, und von Rom aus durch vil andere Ort ... gen Stuttgart anno 1600 ... heimgelangt . Tbingen: Cellius, 1603. Small 4°. General title printed in red and black, second voyage with separate title, 3 woodcut plates, including 2 folding, 2 folding letterpress tables describing the College of Oxford and Cambridge in Latin, 2 full-page woodcut portraits of Friedrich of Wrttemberg and one full-page woodcut of his coat-of-arms. (Lacking the map of Switzerland and Northern Italy, one table with unobtrusive laminated repair.) 19th-century red morocco by F. Bedford, spine gilt in six compartments (extremities lightly rubbed), g.e. Second edition, first published in 1602, of an account of Friedrich, Duke of Wrttemberg's voyage to England in 1592 and to Italy in 1599.