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Lettres d'un voyageur anglois.
Sherlock, Martin, approximately 1750-1797.Date: M.D.CC.LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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A new system of geography: or, a general description of the world. Containing A Particular and Circumstantial Account of all the Countries, Kingdoms, and States of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Their Situation, Climate, Mountains, Seas, Rivers, Lakes, &c. The Religion, Manners, Customs, Manufactures, Trade, and Buildings of the Inhabitants. With The Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Insects, the various Vegetables, and Minerals, found in different Regions. Embellished with a new and accurate set of maps, by the best Geographers; and great variety of copper-plates, containing Perspective Views of the Principal Cities, Structures, Ruins, &c. By D. Fenning, (author of the Royal English Dictionary, the Use of the Globes, the Young Algebraist's Companion, &c.) J. Collyer, (author of the Letters from Felicia to Charlotte; and Translator of the Messiah, from the German of Mr. Klopstock.) and others.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1765]- Books
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Travels in the year 1792 through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna: concluding with an account of that city. In a series of familiar letters to a lady in England. By William Hunter, Esq. of the inner temple. In Two Volumes. ...
Hunter, William, active 18th century-19th century.Date: 1798- Books
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Travels into different parts of Europe, in the years 1791 and 1792. With familiar remarks on places-men-and manners. By John Owen, ...
Owen, John, 1766-1822.Date: 1796- Books
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Journal of travels made through the principal cities of Europe: Wherein The Time employed in Going from Post to Post is marked in Hours and Minutes; the Distances in English Miles, measured by Means of a Perambulator fastened to the Chaise; Produce of the Different Countries; Population of the Towns; and Remarkable Curiosities in the Cities and the Roads: together with an account of the best inns, &c. To Which IS Subjoined, A Comparative View of the Different Monies, and that of Itinerary and Lineal Measures, as well as the Price of Post-Horses in Different Countries. Translated from the French of M.L. Dutens, Member of the Royal Academy of Inseriptions and Belles Lettres at Paris, and Fellow of the Royal Society, London, by John Highmore, Gent. To which is added, an appendix: containing the Roads of Italy; With some Useful Tables and Hints to Strangers who Travel in France.
Dutens, L. (Louis), 1730-1812.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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A new journey over Europe; from France thro' Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, Flanders, Holland, Denmark, Swedland, Muscovy, Poland, Hungary, Styria, Carinthia, the Venetian Territories, Italy, Naples, Sicily, Genoa, Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, and Ireland. With Several Observations on the Laws, Religion, and Government, &c. of each. Together With an Account of the Births and Marriages of all the Kings and Princes of Europe from the Year 1650. By a late traveller A. D. Chancel, M.A.
Chancel, Alexander Doriack.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- Books
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Remarks on a tour through the different countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa; giving a particular description of the Characters, customs, manners and laws ... In two volumes. ...
Macintosh, William, active 18th century.Date: 1786- Books
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Letters from several parts of Europe, and the East. Written in the years 1750, &c. In these are contained, the writer's observations on the productions of nature, the monuments of art, and the manners of the inhabitants. In two volumes. ...
Broderick, Thomas.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain. Giving a true and just description of the present state of those countries; their natural, literary, and political history; manners, laws, commerce, manufactures, painting, sculpture, architecture, coins, antiquities, curiosities of art and nature, &c. Illustrated with copper-plates, engraved from drawings taken on the spot. By John George Keysler, Fellow of the Royal Society in London. Carefully translated from the second edition of German. In four volumes.
Keyssler, Johann Georg, 1693-1743.Date: M DCC LVI. [1756]- Books
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Familiar letters on important subjects, wrote from the year 1618 to 1650. By James Howell, Esq; Clerk of the Privy-Council to King Charles I.
Howell, James, 1594?-1666.Date: M,DCC,LIII. [1753]- Books
Some letters. : Containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, etc. / Written by G. Burnet, D.D. to T.H.R.B. ; To which is annexed his answer to Mr. Varillas.
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.Date: Printed in the year, 1686 [i.e. 1687]- Books
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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.
Virginian.Date: M DCC LXXXIII [1783]- Books
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The travels of Thomas Broderick, Esq; in a late tour through several parts of Europe, &c. Accurately describing the many remarkable antiquities and ruins; the admired Sculptures, Paintings, and Curiosities; the Churches, Monasteries, Palaces, Villa's, and other Buildings, in the several Cities, Towns, and Villages; Particularly those of Paris, St. Germains, Versailles, Marseilles, Genoa, Milan, Verona, Venice, Rome, Naples, Herculaneum, Leghorn, Florence, &c. &c. &c. Pointing out likewise Those particular Productions of Nature for which each Country or Place is famed; Together with several New Experiments in Natural Philosophy, Interspersed, also, with various Historical and Entertaining Observations on the Diversions, Manners, Customs, &c. of the different People. ...
Broderick, Thomas.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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Travelling anecdotes through various parts of Europe. By James Douglas.
Douglas, James, 1753-1819.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A sketch of a tour on the continent, in the years 1786 and 1787, by James Edward Smith, ... In three volumes. ...
Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828.Date: 1793- Books
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A new voyage to Italy. With curious observations on several other countries; as, Germany; Switzerland; Savoy; Geneva; Flanders; and Holland. ... In four volumes. The fourth edition, with large additions throughout ...
Misson, Maximilien, 1650?-1722.Date: 1714- Books
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Itinéraire des routes les plus fréquentées, Ou journal d'un voyage aux villes principales de l'Europe, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1777. Où l'on a marqué, en heures & minutes, le temps employé à aller d'une poste à l'autre; les distances en milles anglois, mesurées par un odometre appliqué à la voiture; le product des contrées; la population des villes; les choses remarquables à voir dans les villes & sur les routes; les auberges, &c. on y a joint le rapport des monnoies, & celui des mesures itinéraires & linéales, ainsi que le prix des chevaux de poste, des différents pays. Troisie'me édition augmentée d'un voyage en Espagne, et d'une carte générale pour tout l'itinéraire. Par M. L. Dutens, de l' academic royale des inscriptions & belles lettres, de paris & de la societe royale de Londres.
Dutens, L. (Louis), 1730-1812.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The travels of reason in Europe. Translated from the French of the Marquis Caraccioli.
Caraccioli, Louis-Antoine, marquis, 1719-1803.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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A tour from London to Petersburgh, and from thence to Moscow. By John Richard, Esq.
Richard, John, Traveller in Russia.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Mémoires de Charles-Louis Baron de Pöllnitz, contenant les observations qu'il a faites dans ses voyages, ET LE Caractere des Personnes qui composent les principales Cours DE L'Europe.
Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von, 1692-1775.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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A review of the characters of the principal nations in Europe. In two volumes. ...
Andrews, John, 1736-1809.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, made between the years 1770 and 1779. In four volumes. ... The second edition. By Charles Peter Thunberg, M.D. Knight of the Order of Vasz, Professor of Botany in the University of Upsal, and Member of various academies and learned societies both in Sweden and other countries.
Thunberg, Carl Peter, 1743-1828.Date: 1795- Books
The travel writings of John Moore / editor, Ben P. Robertson.
Moore, John, 1729-1802Date: 2014- Books
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Cursory remarks made in a tour through some of the northern parts of Europe, particularly Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Petersburgh. By N. Wraxall, Jun.
Wraxall, Nathaniel William, Sir, 1751-1831.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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A tour to Spa, through the Austrian Netherlands, and French Flanders; and from Spa to Dusseldorff, up the Rhine, ... and through Manheim [sic], ... and Rheims, to St. Omer, and Calais.
Date: 1774