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1. Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique.

Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique.
Creator:
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769–1859
Date:
1810 [that is, 1813?]
Physical Description:
2 volumes (xvi, 350 pages, 69 leaves of plates) : 69 illustrations (engraving, aquatint, some color) ; 59 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. 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.

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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

4. 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.

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

5. 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.

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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

6. 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.

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

7. 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 ...

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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

8. 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.

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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

9. 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.

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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

10. 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.

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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

11. 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.

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

12. 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.

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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

13. Voyage pittoresque de Scandinavie : cahier de vingt-quartre vues avec descriptions.

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Creator:
Saint-Morys, Charles-Paul-Jean-Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de, 1743–1795
Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
24 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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 ...

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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

15. Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied ; mit 48 Kupfern, 33 Vignetten, vielen Holzschnitten und einer Charte.

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Creator:
Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782–1867
Date:
1839-1841
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, map ; 32-61 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts