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The British monarchy: or, a new chorographical description of all the dominions subject to the King of Great Britain. ... To which are added full and exact lists of the navy, the army, the officers of state, ... The whole illustrated with suitable maps and tables; ... engrav'd by George Bickham.
Bickham, George, -1758.Date: [1743-54]- Books
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Itineraria Symonis Simeonis et Willelmi de Worcestre. Quibus accedit tractatus de metro, in quo traduntur regulæ a scriptoribus medii ævi in versibus Leoninis observatæ. E codicibus Mss. in Bibliotheca Coll. Corp. Christi Cantab. asservatis primus eruit ediditque, Jacobus Nasmith A.M. S.A.S. ejusdemque Collegii nuper Socius.
Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The history and present state of the British islands: Describing their respective situations, buildings, customs, arts and sciences, manufactures, husbandry, plants, animals, minerals, forests, rivers, fisheries, &c. And more particularly of the county of Middlesex, and city of London; shewing the antient as well as present state of that metropolis, and remarks on the several great trading companies, and on their foreign trade to all parts of the world. Adorn'd with maps and cuts. In two volumes.
Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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The Present state of England. To which is added, an account of the new stile.
Date: [between ca. 1752 and 1760?]- Books
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A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain. Divided into circuits or journeys. Giving a particular and entertaining account of whatever is curious, and worth observation; viz. I. A description of the principal cities and towns, their Situation, Government, and Commerce. II. The Customs, Manners, Exercises, Diversions, and Employments, of the People. III. The Produce and Improvement of the Lands, the Trade, and Manufactures. IV. The Sea-Ports and Fortifications, the Course of Rivers, and the Inland Navigation. V. The Public Edifices, Seats, and Palaces, of the Nobility and Gentry. VI The Isles of Wight, Portland, Jersey, Guernsey, and the other English and Scotish Isles of most Note. Interspersed with Useful Observations. Particularly fitted for the Perusal of such as desire to Travel over the Island. By a gentleman. The fifth edition. With very great additions, improvements, and corrections; which bring it down to the year 1753. In four volumes. With a copious index to each volume. Vol. I.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales. Containing, I. An alphabetical list of all the cities, towns, and remarkable villages; with their market-days, and the counties in which they are situated. II. The direct roads from London to all the cities; the borough, market, and sea-port, towns; shewing the distance from each city, town, or village, to the next on the same road; with their distance from London, and an account of the remarkable seats that are near the road. III. The cross roads of England and Wales. IV. The circuits of the judges in England. V. An index to the country-seats. The whole on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to any work of the kind extant. By Daniel Paterson, assistant to the Quarter-Master-General of his Majesty's forces.
Paterson, Daniel, 1738-1825.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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The present state of Great-Britain and Ireland. In three parts. The I. Of South II. of North Britain. III. of Ireland. Containing An Accurate and Impartial Account of these great and famous Islands: Of their several Counties, and their Inhabitants; the Advantages and Disadvantages of Both, in respect to Foreign Countries; and their Curiosities both of Nature and Art. Of the vast, populous, and opulent City of London, the Metropolis of Great-Britain; and of the Famous Universities of the Land. Of the Britains Original, Language, Temper, Genius, Religion, Morals, Trade, &c. Their Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Commonalty. Their Laws and Government; With a succinct History of all the English Monarchs to this time. The present Princes and Princesses of the Blood Royal, and the Settlement of the Succession in the Protestant Line. With the lists of the present Officers in Church and State, Of Both Houses of Parliament, and of the Convocation. To which are added, the maps of the three Kingdoms.
Miège, Guy, 1644-1718?.Date: 1711- Books
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The British tourists; or traveller's pocket companion, through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Comprehending the most celebrated tours in the British Islands. By William Mavor, LL.D. ...
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837.Date: 1798-1800- Books
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England delineated; or, a geographical description of every county in England and Wales: with a concise account of its most important products, natural and artificial. For the Use of Young Persons. With Outline Maps of all the Counties.
Aikin, John, 1747-1822.Date: 1800- Books
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The complete English traveller; Or, A new survey and description of England and Wales. Containing a full account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several counties of England and Wales, the Isles of man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the crown of Great Britain; under the following heads; I. The ancient and present state of each county with respect to agriculture, manufactures, trade and commerce, &c. II. Account of the air, soil, rivers, lakes, and mineral waters. III. A particular description of all that is curious in the cities, corporations, towns and villages; with the various fairs, markets, and distances from London. IV. Account of the cathedrals, collegiate, and Parish churches; together with the remains of abbies, priories, nunneries, and other religious houses. V. Description of the palaces, houses, gardens and parks, belonging to several of the nobility, gentry, &c. VI. Account of all the remarkable battles, sieges, castles and forts, whether Roman, Saxon, Danish, or Norman. VII. Account of all the ancient monuments, with the reasons for which they were first erected. VIII. Descriptions of every natural curiosity, whether mines, rocks, caves, caverns, grottos, or fossils. IX. Abstract of the lives of such persons, as have done honour to the counties where they were born, whether kings, princes, peers, generals, admirals, divines, lawyers, physicians, philosophers, poets, historians, &c. To which is added, a concise and accurate description of that part of Great Britain called Scotland. Its ancient and present state, antiquities and natural curiosities: together with the manners and customs of the inhabitants, &c. By Nathaniel Spencer, Esq; By the King's Royal Licence and Authority.
Sanders, Robert, 1727-1783.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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England delineated; or, a geographical description of every county in England and Wales: with a concise account of its most important products, natural and artificial. For the Use of Young Persons.
Aikin, John, 1747-1822.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Observations made during a tour through parts of England, Scotland, and Wales. In a series of letters.
Sulivan, Richard Joseph, Sir, 1752-1806.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The new present state of Great Britain. Containing a succinct account of the climate, divisions, and inhabitants of Great Britain: An ample Description of the several Counties into which that Kingdom is divided; their Air, Soil, natural Productions, Trade, and Manufactures. The government of Great Britain: the Power, Prerogatives and Revenues of the King: the Laws, Customs, and Privileges of Parliament; and the Power and Methods of Proceeding in the several Courts of Justice. A Copious Description of the Capitals of England and Scotland, their Government, Courts of Justice, Principal Buildings, Trading and other Companies, Privileges and Commerce. To which are added, complete and accurate lists of all the civil, ecclesiastical, and military offices in Great Britain.
Date: 1770- Books
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Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides; undertaken for the purpose of examining the state of the arts, the sciences, natural history and manners, in Great Britain: ... In two volumes with plates. Translated from the French of B. Faujas Saint-Fond, ...
Faujas-de-St.-Fond, cit. (Barthélemy), 1741-1819.Date: 1799- Books
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The new state of England, under our present monarch K. William III. In three parts. Containing, I. A General Account of England. With a particular Description of its several Counties, Cities, Universities, Markets and Borough-Towns: And a Survey of Wales. II. Of the Original, Temper, Genius, Language, Trade, Religion and Government of the English. Of the King's Prerogative, Power, Court, and Revenues, &c. Of the Nobility and Gentry, Clergy and Commonalty. With a Succinct History of the Kings and Queens of England, to this Time. III. A Description of the High Court of Parliament, Privy Council, and all Courts of Judicature. And a more Exact List of the present Officers, in Church and State.
Miège, Guy, 1644-1718?.Date: 1701- Books
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A plan of the English commerce. Being a complete prospect of the trade of this nation, as well home as foreign. In three parts. Containing, among many Others, the following Curious Particulars; viz. Of the Rise, Growth, and Encrease of the English Commerce, together with its Present State, more especially of that Part which relates to the Woollen Manufacture. A View of the English Trade, as it respects The Exportation, The Importation, The Re-Exportation, and Home Consumption. A solid Enquiry into the Question, Whether our Trade is decreased or not? Of the English Improvements in Trade upon the Inventions of other Nations, and the Increase of our Commerce on these Improvements; and of the Improvements likewise made upon our own Product. A Proposal for exterminating the Pyrates of Tunis, Tripoli, Algier and Sallee. With a Scheme for restoring the ancient Commerce on the North and North-West Coast of Africa. A Proposal for the Encrease of Commerce upon the Western Coast of Africa, the Coast of Guiney from Siera Leon to the Coast and Gulph of Benin. And Another for the Encrease of Commerce on the East Coast of Africa. A Proposal for turning the Whole Trade for Naval Stores from the East Country, and Norway and Sweden, to our own Colonies, without putting the Government to the dead Charge of Bounty-Money on that Importation. Humbly offer'd to the Consideration of King and Parliament. By the late ingenious Mr. Daniel De Foe.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Britannia: or, a chorographical description of the flourishing kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the islands adjacent; from the earliest antiquity. By William Camden. Translated from the edition published by the author in MDCVII. Enlarged by the latest discoveries, by Richard Gough, F. A. & R. SS. In three volumes. Illustrated with maps, and other copper-plates. ...
Camden, William, 1551-1623.Date: MDCCI.XXXIX. [1789]- Books
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British curiosities in art and nature; giving an account of rarities both antient and modern, viz. Monuments, Monasteries, Priories, Frieries, Nunneries, Colleges, Hospitals, Walls, Roman Camps, Garrisons, Highways, Coins, Altars, Urns, Pavements of Mosaic Work, Temples, Churches, Bridges, Kings Palaces, Noblemens Seats, Paintings, Gardens, Statues, Fountains, Rivers, Lakes, Abysses, Caverns, Rocks, Hills, Plants, Flowers, Birds, Beasts, Fish, Shells, Learning and Learned Men, unusual Customs of Places, with whatever else is worthy observing. Likewise an account of the posts, markets, and fair-towns. To which is added, A very Useful Scheme, containing a brief Account of the State of each County in England, at one View, curiously engraved, and printed on a Sheet to fold up or put in a Frame.
Date: MDCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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A walk to Islington: with a description of New Tunbridge-Wells, and Sadler's musick-house. By the author of The poet's ramble after riches.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: Printed in the Year 1701- Books
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Magnæ Britanniæ notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain; With divers remarks upon The Antient State thereof. By John Chamberlayne, Esq; and more correct and large Additions in the List of the Officers, &c. than in any former Impression. With His Majesty's Royal Privilege.
Chamberlayne, John, 1666-1723.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Books
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Roman stations in Britain, according to the imperial itinerary, upon the Watling-Street, Ermine-Street, Ikening, or, Via ad Icianos. So far as any of these roads lead through the following counties, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Middlesex.
Salmon, N. (Nathaniel), 1675-1742.Date: 1726- Books
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Three successive tours in the north of England, and great part of Scotland. Interspersed with descriptions of the scenes they presented, and occasional observations on the state of society, and the Manners and Customs of the People. By Henry Skrine, Esq. of Warley in Somersetshire.
Skrine, Henry, 1755-1803.Date: 1795- Books
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A travelling dictionary: or, alphabetical tables of the distance of all the principal cities, borough, market, and sea-port towns, in Great-Britain, from each other. Shewing by Inspection The Number of Miles every City or Town in the Kingdom is Distant from any other, according to the nearest Direct or Cross Road. Comprehending Above Fifty Thousand Distances, carefully collected from the best Authorities, and arranged in a Manner entirely new and plain. To which is Added, A Table, shewing the Distance of the Towns, Bridges, &c. upon the River Thames, from each other by Water. The whole being a second part to the New and accurate description of the roads. By Daniel Paterson, Assistant to the Quarter-Master-General of His Majesty's Forces.
Paterson, Daniel, 1738-1825.Date: MDCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales. Containing, I. An Alphabetical List of all the Cities, Towns, and remarkable Villages; with their Market-Days, and the Counties in which they are situated. II. The Direct Roads from London to all the Cities, Borough, Market, and Sea-Port Towns; shewing the Distance from each City, Town, or Village, to the next on the same Road; with their Distance from London, and an Account of the Remarkable Scats that are near the Road. III. The Cross Roads of England and Wales. IV. The Circuits of the Judges in England. V. An Index to the Country Seats. The Whole on a Plam entirely New, and far preferable to any Work of the Kind extant. By Daniel Paterson, Assistant to the Quarter-Master-General of his Majesty's Forces.
Paterson, Daniel, 1738-1825.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd; being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's Actual survey of all ye direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: ... And to render this work universally usefull & agreeable, ... are added ... 1. A full & particular description & account of all the cities, borough-towns, towns-corporate ... By Ino. Owen ... 2. The arms of the peers of this realm ... 3. The arms of all ye bishopricks & deanaries, ... 4. The arms, & a succinct account of both universities & their respective colleges, ... Lastly particular & correct maps of all ye counties of South Britain; with a summary description of each county, ... By Eman: Bowen engraver
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.Date: 1731