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Sorbière's 'Relation d'un voyage en Angleterre'

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By Samuel-Joseph Sorbière.

Last updated by Phil Gyford on 13 October 2007

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  • SORBIÈRE, Samuel de.
    Relation d’un voyage en Angleterre, où sont touchées plusieurs choses, qui regardent l’estat des sciences, et de la religion.
    L. Billaine: Paris, 1664.
    8, 232 p.; 8º.

    Other editions: Cologne 1666, 1667 12mo.; translations, Italian 1670; English 1709. No copy of any in the Pepysian Library.

    The work had some significant circulation in England. see:-
    Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. (Bishop of Rochester)
    Observations on Monsieur de Sorbier’s Voyage into England. Written to Dr. Wren, Professor of Astronomy in Oxford. By Thomas Sprat, Fellow of the Royal Society.
    London : printed for John Martyn, and James Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, 1665.
    [2], 298, [2] p. ; 8⁰.
    further editions in 1668 and 1677.

  • A voyage to England
    by: Mons. Sorbière [Samuel Joseph]
    AS ALSO Observations on the same Voyage, by Dr. Thomas Sprat, Fellow of the Royal Society, and now
    Lord Bishop of Rochester WITH
    A Letter of Monsieur Sorbiere’s, concerning the War
    between England and Holland in 1652 : To all which
    is prefix’d his Life, Writ by Mr. Graverol.
    Done into English from the French Original.
    LONDON. Printed, and Sold by J. Woodward, in St. Christopher’s-Alley in Threadneedle-Street. 1709.

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1664
Oct: 13
1668
May: 19