Mohs, Friedrich (Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs), 1773-1839 (Professor | German mineralogist)

Scope and Contents Diary written during a tour of Germany, 1826, with commentary by an unknown author. The commentator may have a Scottish connection, with some references to Edinburgh and surrounds throughout the text. For example, the commentator notes that 'The Sunday dress of the women in this part of Bohemia is not unlike that of our Newhaven fishwives, except that they have very finely worked red stockings and rather shorter petticoats.'The accounts are punctuated by drawings and diagrams...