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The beauties of England: giving a descriptive view of the chief villages, market-towns, and cities; Antiquities, Parks, Plantations, Scenes, And Situations, In in England and Wales; Including The Seats Of Our Nobility And Gentry, And The Two Universities. The Whole Intended AS A Travelling Companion, To Point Out Whatever IS Curious Either In Art, OR In Nature. By Philip Luckombe. ...
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- 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: 1776- Books
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A journey through England. In familiar letters from a gentleman here, to his friend abroad.
Macky, John, -1726.Date: 1714- Books
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Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-Lands of Scotland. ... . By William Gilpin, A.M. Prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New-Forest, near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A journey through England. In familiar letters from a gentleman here, to his friend abroad.
Macky, John, -1726.Date: 1714- Books
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A journey through England. In familiar letters. From a gentleman here, to his friend abroad. In two volumes. Containing What is Curious in the Counties of, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Middlesex, London, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, and Huntington, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wales, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man, &c. Vol. I.
Macky, John, -1726.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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A short description of Castleton, in Derbyshire: its natural curiosities, and mineral productions. By J.M. Hedinger.
Hedinger, J. M.Date: [1800?]- Books
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A short description of Castleton, in Derbyshire. Its natural curiosities, and mineral productions. By J.M. Hedinger.
Hedinger, J. M.Date: [1799?]- Books
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Picturesque views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon, from its source at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Tewkesbury: with observations on the public buildings, and other works of art in its vicinity. By Samuel Ireland, Author of ̀̀a Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant, and Part of France;'' and of ̀̀picturesque Views on the Rivers Thames, Medway,'' &c.
Ireland, Samuel, -1800.Date: 1795- Books
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A view of the village of Hampton, from Moulsey Hurst. With The original Lancashire collier girl. By the same author.
Palmer, Joseph, 1756-1815.Date: [1797]- Books
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The journey from Chester to London. By Thomas Pennant, Esq.
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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A tour from London to the lakes: containing natural, œconomical, and literary observations, made in the summer of 1791. By a gentleman.
Gentleman.Date: 1792- Books
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Bowles's new Hackney-Coach directory; comprehending upwards of fifty thousand fares: calculated From the several stands now in Use, Agreeable to the late Act of Parliament, Which took Place on the 1st of August, 1786. With the new rates of watermen, As regulated by the Court of Aldermen, and approved by His Majesty's Privy Council.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.Date: 1786- Books
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England and Wales described. In a series of letters: exhibiting whatever is worthy the observation of the curious traveller, as well as all others, who wish to be made acquainted with the beauties of this happy country. Lately written from different parts of the kingdom, and principally to a gentleman in the isle of Wight. To which are added, historical, critical, and explanatory notes. By William Toldervy, editor of a collection of epitaphs, &c. Vol. I.
Toldervy, William.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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Letters from a Moor at London to his friend at Tunis. Containing an account of his journey through England, with his Observations on the Laws, Customs, Religion, and Manners of the English Nation. Likewise remarks on the public charities, with curious memoirs relating to the life of Mr. Sutton, Founder of the Charter-House. A description of Bedlam, with serious reflections on self-murder. The whole interspersed with historical remarks and useful observations.
Moor at London.Date: [1737?]- Books
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A journey through England. In familiar letters from a gentlemam [sic] here, to his friend abroad. Vol. II.
Macky, John, -1726.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- 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 Counties they are situated in. 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 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: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England: or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, ... in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper plate cuts, neatly engraved. Volume the first.
Date: 1776- Books
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The traveller's companion, in a tour through England and Wales; containing a catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, Plantations, Scenes, and Situations, in England and Wales, arranged According to the Alphabetical Order of the several Counties; by the late Mr. Gray, Author of the Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard, &c. To which are now added, considerable improvements and additions, by Thomas Northmore Esq.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.Date: [1799]- Books
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Gleanings in England; descriptive of the countenance, mind and character of the country. By. Mr. Pratt. Vol.IV.
Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814.Date: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]- Books
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A new and accurate description of the present great roads and the principal cross roads of England and Wales, commencing at London, and continued to the farthest Parts of the Kingdom, with the several Branches leading out of them; and a Description of the several Towns that stand thereon. Divided into Four Parts, Viz. Western, Northern, Eastern, and Southern. To which are added, the ancient Roman roads and stations in Britain. Also Some General Rules to know the Original of the Names of Places in England, a List of Mitred Abbots, and an Alphabetical List of Fairs regulated according to the New Style.
Date: 1756- Books
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A picture of England: containing a description of the laws, customs, and manners of England. Interspersed with curious and interesting Anecdotes of Present King of Denmark Prince of Wales Late Empless Maria Theresa Louis XV Duke de Choiseul Late Duke of Bedford Duchess Dowager of Bedford Duke of Northumberland Duchess of Devonshire Lord Bute Lord North Lord Mansfield Mr. Fox Mr. Pitt Lord Sandwich Admiral Keppel General Smith Lord Camden Lord Thurlow Lord Kenyon Duke of Bridgewater Lord Chatham Lord Sackville General Burgoyne Mr. Luttrell Mr. Wilkes, and several other Aldermen Mr. Burke Mr. Horne Tooke Late Lord Clive Mr. Gibbon Mrs. Abington Mr. Wedgewood Chevalier D'Eon Lord Stormont Mr. Villette General Mr. Late Mr. Garrick Mr. Foote Mrs. Cornellys Mrs. Siddons Barry Woodward Weston Henderson Palmer Mr. Kelly, &c. &c. &c. By M. D'Archenholz, Formerly a Captain in the Service of the King of Prussia. Translated from the French. Vol. I.
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 1743-1812.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, newly design'd by Mr. Robert Morden, Exactly Drawn and Engraven by the Best Artists. The several Counties described, the Account of their Ancient and Modern Names, Soil, Former and Present Inhabitants, their Number, Rarities, Market-Towns, and Days whereon Markets are kept, Hundreds, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Bridges, Minerals, Commodities, Number of Acres, what Proportion each Country pays to the Land-Tax, Archbishopticks, Bishopricks, Cathedrals, Parish-Churches, Schools, Hospitals, Roads and Distances, Roman Ways, Post-Towns, Men of Note, Memorable Battles and Actions, the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry, an Account of Fairs, &c.
Morden, Robert, -1703.Date: 1704- Books
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A description of Millenium Hall, and the county adjacent: together with the characters of the inhabitants, and such historical anecdotes and reflections, as may excite in the reader proper sentiments of humanity, and lead the mind to the love of virtue. By a gentleman on his travels.
Gentleman on his travels, Lady Montagu and Sarah Scott.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Chorographia Britanniæ. Or a new set of maps of all the counties in England and Wales: to which are prefix'd the following general maps, ... By Thos. Badeslade surveyor. & engrav'd by W. H. Toms.
Badeslade, Thomas.Date: [1742?]