Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Language: English / Work Type: travel literature / Classification: Books

1. Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque : during four-and-twenty years in the East : with revelations of life in the zenāna / by [Fānī Pārks] ; illustrated with sketches from nature.

Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque : during four-and-twenty years in the East : with revelations of life in the zenāna / by [Fānī Pārks] ; illustrated with sketches from nature.

Creator:: Parlby, Fanny Parkes
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia / by George Waddington ... and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury ... ; with maps and other engravings.

Creator:: Waddington, George, 1793–1869
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 333, [3] p., [18] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China : returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena : in the H.C.S. the Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass / by James Wathen ; illustrated with twenty-four coloured prints, from drawings by the author.

Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China : returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena : in the H.C.S. the Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass / by James Wathen ; illustrated with twenty-four coloured prints, from drawings by the author.

Creator:: Wathen, James
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: xx, 246 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849 : with a glance at California / by a merchant long resident at Tahiti ; with four illustrations printed in colours ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Lucett, Edward, 1815–1853
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

Creator:: Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The American wanderer : through various parts of Europe, in a series of letters to a lady (interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes) / by a Virginian.

Creator:: Virginian
Date:: MDCCLXXXIII [1783]
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 288 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts R.A. ; with historical descriptions by the Rev. George Croly ; lithographed by Louis Hage.

Creator:: Roberts, David, 1796–1864
Date:: 1842-1849
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations (lithographs) (some color), map, portraits ; 63 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A voyage to the South Sea : undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh : including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [10], 264 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa : from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, Esq., the British consul : comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning bashaw, his family and other persons of distinction : also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks.

Creator:: Tully, Miss
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: xiii, [2], 370 p., [6] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America : during 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802 / by John Davis.

Creator:: Davis, John, 1774–1854
Date:: 1803 (8vo)
Physical Description:: 454, [2] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon / by Lieut. Wm. Lewis Herndon, United States Navy ; with map and plates.

Creator:: Herndon, William Lewis, 1813–1857
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [2], 6-414 pages, 16, [1] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, color map ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Voyage of the United States frigate Potomac, under the command of Commodore John Downes, during the circumnavagation of the globe, in the years 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834 : including a particular account of the engagement at Quallah-Battoo, on the coast of Sumatra : with all the official documents relating to the same / by J.N. Reynolds ; illustrated by several engravings.

Creator:: Reynolds, J. N. (Jeremiah N.), 1799–1858
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [7], vi-x, [1], vi-x, [1], 12-560 pages, [10] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Mitla : a narrative of incidents and personal adventures on a journey in Mexico, Guatemala, and Salvador in the years of 1853 to 1855 / with observations on the modes of life in those countries by G. F. Von Tempsky ; edited by J. S. Bell, author of "Journal of a residence in Circassia in the years 1836 to 1839."

Creator:: Von Tempsky, G. F. (Gustavus Ferdinand), 1828–1868
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 436 p., [16] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Voyages and travels in various parts of the world, during the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807 / by G.H. von Langsdorff ; ... illustrated by engravings from original drawings.

Creator:: Langsdorff, G. H. von (Georg Heinrich), 1774–1852
Date:: 1813-1814
Physical Description:: 2 v. (xxi, [3], 362, [6] p., [16] leaves of plates; [8], 386, [6] p., [6] leaves of plates (1 folded)) : ill., map, music, ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Extracts from a journal of a pilgrimage in search of the curious and beautiful in Italy, Sicily, and Greece during the years 1845-46.

Creator:: Barrington, Richard
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 201, [3] pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Illustrations of Japan : consisting of private memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning dynasty of the Djogouns, or sovereigns of Japan : a description of the feasts and ceremonies observed throughout the year at their court : and of the ceremonies customary at marriages and funerals : to which are subjoined, observations on the legal suicide of the Japanese, remarks on their poetry, and explanation of their mode of reckoning time, particulars respecting the Dosia powder, the preface of a work Confoutzee on filial piety, &c. &c. / by M. Titsingh ; formerly chief agent to the Dutch East India Company at Nangasaki ; translated from the French, by Frederic Shoberl ; with colored plates ; faithfully copied from Japanese original designs.

Creator:: Titsingh, Isaac, 1744–1812
Date:: MDCCXXII [1822]
Physical Description:: xvi, 325, [3] pages, [13] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Tracts relative to the island of St. Helena : written during a residence of five years / by Major-General Alexander Beatson ; illustrated with views, engraved by Mr. William Daniell, from the drawings of Samuel Davis, Esq.

Creator:: Beatson, Alexander, 1759–1833
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4], xix, [1], lxxxvii, [1], 330 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer vnderstanding of the whole matter.

Creator:: Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
Date:: 1582
Physical Description:: [124] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A brief history of ancient and modern India : from the earliest periods of antiquity to the termination of the late Mahratta war. / by Francis William Blagdon, Esquire.

Creator:: Blagdon, Francis William, 1778–1819
Date:: [MDCCCV [1805]
Physical Description:: [10], 22, [8] pages, [65] leaves of plates : color illustrations (engravings) ; 58 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

Creator:: Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean : illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait during the summer of 1817 / by Bernard O'Reilly ; with charts and numerous plates, from drawings of the author taken on the spot.

Creator:: O'Reilly, Bernard
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: vi, 293 p., XVIII, [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, ports. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland : in a series of letters, addressed to a large number of intelligent and respectable friends / by Mr. Dibdin.

Creator:: Dibdin, Charles, 1745–1814
Date:: [1801-1802]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The history of a voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764 : under the command of M. de Bougainville, in order to form a settlement there : and of two voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with an account of the Patagonians / translated from Dom Pernety's Historical journal, written in French ; illustrated with copper plates.

Creator:: Pernety, Antoine-Joseph, 1716–1801
Date:: MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:: [4], xvii, [1], 294 p., 16 leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

Creator:: La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747–1827
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : maps, charts ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Picturesque views on the river Niger : sketched during Lander's last visit in 1832-33 / by Commander William Allen.

Creator:: Allen, William, 1793–1864
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: 18 p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Travels through different cities of Germany, Italy, Greece and several parts of Asia, as far as the banks of the Euphrates : in a series of letters : containing, an account of what is most remarkable in their present state, as well as in their monuments of antiquity / by Alexander Drummond, Esq. ...

Creator:: Drummond, Alexander, -1769
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: [4], 311, [1] p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 39 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Rough recollections of rambles abroad and at home / by Calder Campbell ; author of "The Palmer's Last Lesson " etc. ; in three volumes.

Creator:: Campbell, Robert Calder, 1798–1857
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. This luminous coast / Jules Pretty.

Creator:: Pretty, Jules N
Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 271 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Travels in the interior of North America / by Maximilian, Prince of Wied ; with numerous engravings on wood, and a large map ; translated from the German, by H. Evans Lloyd ; to accompany the original series of eighty-one elaborately-coloured plates ...

Creator:: Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782–1867
Date:: MDCCCXLIII-MDCCCXLIV [1843-1844]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (x, [2], 520 pages, [1] leaf of plates; [2], XXXIII, 48 leaves) : illustrations, portraits, map ; 33-63 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. To India and back by the Cape / by a traveller ; with numerous drawings on wood and stone, by John Corbet Anderson.

Creator:: Francis, C. R. (Charles Richard), 1821–1901
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: [4], 28 p., 18, [i.e. 19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East passage : undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue : illustrated with numerous plates and maps : in three volumes.

Creator:: Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople; through part of Greece, Ragusa, and the Dalmatian Isles; in a series of letters to Pennoyre Watkins, esq. from Thomas Watkins, A.M. in the years 1787, 1788, 1789 ...

Creator:: T. W. (Thomas Watkins)
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 2 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Shadows of the East, or, Slight sketches of scenery, persons, and customs : from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece / by Catherine Tobin ; with maps and illustrations.

Creator:: Tobin, Catherine, Lady
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xiv, 256, ix p., [21] leaves of plates : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A tour through part of Belgium and the Rhenish provinces.

Creator:: Rutland, John Henry Manners, Duke of, 1778–1857
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [4], 131, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Diary of a tour in the autumn of 1856 to Gibraltar, Malta, Smyrna, Dardanelles, Marmora, Constantinople, Scutari, Sweet Waters, Greece, Italy, Sicily and France : by James Sullivan ; printed for presentation to his friend ; the drawings, which are copied, with some variations, from Miss Pardoe's volume, are lithographed by W. Waring.

Creator:: Sullivan, James
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: [4], 59, 7 p. : ill., music ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Dicken's dictionary of London, 1879 : an unconventional handbook.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1837–1896
Physical Description:: 352 p. : maps, plans ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England : in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818 / by Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence.

Creator:: Munster, George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence, 1st Earl of, 1794–1842
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [iii]-xxiv, 502 p., [19] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col ill. maps, plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Explorations in the interior of the Labrador peninsula, the country of the Montagnais and Nasquapee Indians / by Henry Youle Hind, M.A. F.R.G.S. ... ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Hind, Henry Youle, 1823–1908
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: 2 volumes in 1 : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor, and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China : with adventures among the mountain Kirghis, and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks : the hunting and pastoral tribes / by Thomas Witlam Atkinson ; with a map and numerous illustrations.

Creator:: Atkinson, Thomas Witlam, 1799–1861
Date:: 1860
Physical Description:: xiii, 570 p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded ) : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Journal of a residence and tour in the United States of North America : from April, 1833, to October, 1834 / by E.S. Abdy, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

Creator:: Abdy, E. S. (Edward Strutt), 1791–1846
Date:: MDCCCXXXV [1835]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Narrative of a residence in Algiers : comprising a geographical and historical account of the regency, biographical sketches of the dey and his ministers, anecdotes of the late war, observations on the relations of the Barbary States with the Christian Powers, and the necessity and importance of their complete subjugation / by Signor Pananti ; with notes and illustrations by Edward Blaquiere ...

Creator:: Pananti, Filippo, 1766–1837
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: xxx, 467 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

Creator:: Clúny, Alexander
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Walks in Rome / by Augustus J.C. Hare ... ; two volumes ...

Creator:: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834–1903
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 / by Sir John Ross, C.B., K.S.A., K.C.S., &c. &c., Captain in the Royal Navy ; including the reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. ; and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole.

Creator:: Ross, John, Sir, 1777–1856
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [6], 740 pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6 : performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva / by Urey Lisiansky.

Creator:: Lisi︠a︡nskiĭ, I︠U︡riĭ, 1773–1837
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: xxi, [3], 388 p., [13] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Transatlantic sketches, or, Sixty days in America.

Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: 34 pages, [30] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 x 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa : from the original correspondence in the family of the late Richard Tully, Esq., the British consul : comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction : also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks : illustrated with a map and several coloured plates.

Creator:: Tully, Miss
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: xiii, [3], 376 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / by Samuel Ireland ; author of the Histories and picturesque scenery of the Rivers Thames, Medway, and Avon, and graphic illustrations of Hogarth.

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Letters from America, historical and descriptive : comprising occurrences from 1769 to 1777 inclusive / by William Eddis, late surveyor of the customs, &c. at Annapolis, in Maryland.

Creator:: Eddis, William, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCXCII [1792]
Physical Description:: [50], 455, [1] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / illustrated with copper plates in aqua tinta from drawings on the spot, by Samuel Ireland ...

Creator:: Ireland, Samuel, -1800
Date:: [1790]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817 : containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited / by Clarke Abel, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. and member of the Geological Society, Chief Medical Officer and naturalist to the Embassy ; illustrated by maps and other engravings.

Creator:: Abel, Clarke, 1780–1826
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xvi, 420 pages, [23] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Travels in India during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783 / by William Hodges, R.A.

Creator:: Hodges, William, 1744–1797
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: vi, 156, [2] p., [14] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. map ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions & views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! / written in French by Alexander de Humboldt & translated into English by Helen Maria Williams.

Creator:: Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. American notes : Pictures from Italy : A child's history of England : The life of our Lord.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xxii, 891, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A narrative of the mutiny : on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty : and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat : from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies / written by Lieutenant William Bligh ; illustrated with charts.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: iv, 88 pages, [4] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : maps ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808 / by Robert Ker Porter ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777–1842
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Travels in the interior of Africa, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia : performed by command of the French Government, in the year 1818 / by G. Mollien ; edited by T.E. Bowdich.

Creator:: Mollien, Gaspard Théodore, comte de, 1796–1872
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 378, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Excursion through the slave states : from Washington on the Potomac to the frontier of Mexico : with sketches of popular manners and geological notices / by G.W. Featherstonhaugh, F.R.S., F. G. S. ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780–1866
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A description of the English province of Carolana : by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane : as also of the great and famous river Meschacebe or Missisipi : the five vast navigable lakes of fresh water, and the parts adjacent : together with an account of the commodities of the growth and production of the said province : and a preface containing some considerations of the consequences of the French making settlements there / by Daniel Coxe, Esq.

Creator:: Coxe, Daniel, 1673–1739
Date:: MDCCXXII [1722]
Physical Description:: [54], 122 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde : accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries : with a map / by Lieutenant Henry Pottinger.

Creator:: Pottinger, Henry, Sir, 1789–1856
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: xxx, 423 p., [2] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Here begynneth a lytell cronycle / translated & imprinted at the cost & charge of Rycharde Pynson, by the co[m]maundement of the ryght high and mighty prince, Edwarde Duke of Buckingham, Yerle of Gloucestre, Staffarde, and of Northamton.

Creator:: Hayton, Frère, approximately 1235–approximately 1314
Date:: [approximately 1520?]
Physical Description:: [2], xliiii, [1] leaf ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque : during four-and-twenty years in the East : with revelations of life in the zenāna / by [Fānī Pārks] ; illustrated with sketches from nature.

2. Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia / by George Waddington ... and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury ... ; with maps and other engravings.

3. Journal of a voyage, in 1811 and 1812, to Madras and China : returning by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena : in the H.C.S. the Hope, Capt. James Pendergrass / by James Wathen ; illustrated with twenty-four coloured prints, from drawings by the author.

4. Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849 : with a glance at California / by a merchant long resident at Tahiti ; with four illustrations printed in colours ; in two volumes.

5. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

6. The American wanderer : through various parts of Europe, in a series of letters to a lady (interspersed with a variety of interesting anecdotes) / by a Virginian.

7. The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts R.A. ; with historical descriptions by the Rev. George Croly ; lithographed by Louis Hage.

10. Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America : during 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802 / by John Davis.

11. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon / by Lieut. Wm. Lewis Herndon, United States Navy ; with map and plates.

14. Voyages and travels in various parts of the world, during the years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807 / by G.H. von Langsdorff ; ... illustrated by engravings from original drawings.

15. Extracts from a journal of a pilgrimage in search of the curious and beautiful in Italy, Sicily, and Greece during the years 1845-46.

17. Tracts relative to the island of St. Helena : written during a residence of five years / by Major-General Alexander Beatson ; illustrated with views, engraved by Mr. William Daniell, from the drawings of Samuel Davis, Esq.

19. A brief history of ancient and modern India : from the earliest periods of antiquity to the termination of the late Mahratta war. / by Francis William Blagdon, Esquire.

21. Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean : illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait during the summer of 1817 / by Bernard O'Reilly ; with charts and numerous plates, from drawings of the author taken on the spot.

22. Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland : in a series of letters, addressed to a large number of intelligent and respectable friends / by Mr. Dibdin.

24. Travels through the United States of North America : the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797; with an authentic account of Lower Canada / by the Duke De La Rochefoucault Liancourt.

25. Picturesque views on the river Niger : sketched during Lander's last visit in 1832-33 / by Commander William Allen.

27. Rough recollections of rambles abroad and at home / by Calder Campbell ; author of "The Palmer's Last Lesson " etc. ; in three volumes.

28. This luminous coast / Jules Pretty.

29. Travels in the interior of North America / by Maximilian, Prince of Wied ; with numerous engravings on wood, and a large map ; translated from the German, by H. Evans Lloyd ; to accompany the original series of eighty-one elaborately-coloured plates ...

30. To India and back by the Cape / by a traveller ; with numerous drawings on wood and stone, by John Corbet Anderson.

32. Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople; through part of Greece, Ragusa, and the Dalmatian Isles; in a series of letters to Pennoyre Watkins, esq. from Thomas Watkins, A.M. in the years 1787, 1788, 1789 ...

33. Shadows of the East, or, Slight sketches of scenery, persons, and customs : from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece / by Catherine Tobin ; with maps and illustrations.

34. A tour through part of Belgium and the Rhenish provinces.

36. Dicken's dictionary of London, 1879 : an unconventional handbook.

37. Journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England : in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818 / by Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence.

38. Explorations in the interior of the Labrador peninsula, the country of the Montagnais and Nasquapee Indians / by Henry Youle Hind, M.A. F.R.G.S. ... ; in two volumes.

40. Journal of a residence and tour in the United States of North America : from April, 1833, to October, 1834 / by E.S. Abdy, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

43. Walks in Rome / by Augustus J.C. Hare ... ; two volumes ...

45. A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6 : performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva / by Urey Lisiansky.

46. Transatlantic sketches, or, Sixty days in America.

48. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / by Samuel Ireland ; author of the Histories and picturesque scenery of the Rivers Thames, Medway, and Avon, and graphic illustrations of Hogarth.

49. Letters from America, historical and descriptive : comprising occurrences from 1769 to 1777 inclusive / by William Eddis, late surveyor of the customs, &c. at Annapolis, in Maryland.

50. A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France : made in the autumn of 1789 / illustrated with copper plates in aqua tinta from drawings on the spot, by Samuel Ireland ...

52. Travels in India during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783 / by William Hodges, R.A.

53. Researches, concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions & views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! / written in French by Alexander de Humboldt & translated into English by Helen Maria Williams.

54. American notes : Pictures from Italy : A child's history of England : The life of our Lord.

55. A narrative of the mutiny : on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty : and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat : from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies / written by Lieutenant William Bligh ; illustrated with charts.

56. Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808 / by Robert Ker Porter ; in two volumes.

57. Travels in the interior of Africa, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia : performed by command of the French Government, in the year 1818 / by G. Mollien ; edited by T.E. Bowdich.

58. Excursion through the slave states : from Washington on the Potomac to the frontier of Mexico : with sketches of popular manners and geological notices / by G.W. Featherstonhaugh, F.R.S., F. G. S. ; in two volumes.

60. Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde : accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries : with a map / by Lieutenant Henry Pottinger.

61. Here begynneth a lytell cronycle / translated & imprinted at the cost & charge of Rycharde Pynson, by the co[m]maundement of the ryght high and mighty prince, Edwarde Duke of Buckingham, Yerle of Gloucestre, Staffarde, and of Northamton.