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The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India: containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, ... Secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... With an account of the inhabitants of all these countries; ... By R. B.
Crouch, Nathaniel, 1632?-1725?.Date: 1708- Books
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A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria, in the years 1777, 1778, 1779. Illustrated with a map, and nineteen copper-plates. By Lieutenant William Paterson.
Paterson, William, 1755-1810.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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A history of a voyage to the coast of Africa, and travels into the interior of that country; containing particular descriptions of the climate and inhabitants, and interesting particulars concerning the slave trade. By Joseph Hawkins, of New York, who has since become blind; and for whose benefit it is now published by his friends. Copy-right secured as the act directs.
Hawkins, Joseph, 1772-Date: 1797- Books
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County curiosities, Or, a New Description of Gloucestershire. Containing I. A particular survey of the county, both geographical and historical. II. An Ample and Accurate Account of all the Boroughs, Market Towns, Villages, Rivers, Royal - Places Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats. III. The Fairs, Trade, Commerce, and Product of the Same. IV Of the Rarities both Natural and Artificial. V. Of the eminent persons born, or who have resided in them, and of the extraordinary events that have happened there.
Date: 1757- Books
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Dr. Stearns's tour from London to Paris. Containing, A description of the Kingdom of France - the customs, manners, polity, science, commerce, and agriculture of the inhabitants -Its Ancient form of Government,-And the New-Particulars concerning the Royal Family-Causes of the late Revolution-Proceedings and Decrees of the National Assembly-An Account of the Destruction of the Bastille, and of many dreadful Commotions which have happened in the Nation-With a minute Detail of the late grand Proceedings at the Champ De Mars. - The whole interspersed with a Variety of Reflections, humourous, moral, critical, and philosophical. After which is delineated, a new constitution: with a description of the road to liberty.
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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An extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's journal from his embarking for Georgia. To his Return to London.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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Letters from the island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies. By Mrs. Kindersley.
Kindersley, Jemina, 1741-1809.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal, &c. By an English officer. In two volumes. ...
Jardine, Alexander, -1799.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- 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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The history of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary. Giving an account of his being taken by two Sallee Rovers, and carry'd a slave to Mequinez, at eleven years of age: his various adventures in that country for the space of twenty-three years: escape, and return home. In which is introduced, a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors; the astonishing tyranny and cruelty of their Emperors, and a relation of all those great revolutions and bloody wars which happen'd in the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, between the years 1720 and 1736. Together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms; miseries of the Christian slaves; and many other curious particulars. Written by himself.
Pellow, Thomas, 1704-Date: [1751]- Books
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The history of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary. Giving an account of his being taken by two Sallce Rovers, and carry'd a slave to Mequinez, at eleven years of age: His various adventures in that country for the space of twenty-three years: escape, and return home. In which is introduced, a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors; the astonishing tyranny and cruelty of their emperors, and a relation of all those great revolutions and bloody wars which happen'd in the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, between the Years 1720 and 1736. Together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms; miseries of the Christian slaves; and many other curious particulars. Written by himself.
Pellow, Thomas, 1704-Date: [1751]- Books
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A voyage to the coast of Africa, in 1758. Containing a succinct account of the expedition to, and the taking of the island of Goree, by a squadron commanded by the Honourable Augustus Keppel. Illustrated with copper-plates. By the Reverend Mr. John Lindsay, chaplain of his Majesty's Ship Fougueux, in that expedition.
Lindsay, John, 1729-1788.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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An account of the shipwreck and captivity of Mr. de Brisson. With a description of the deserts of Africa, from Senegal to Morocco. From his own observation, while harrasted from Place to Place by the vandering Arabs. Translated from the French, by the translator of Grosier's Description of China.
Brisson, Pierre-Raymond de, 1745-1820?.Date: [1790]- Books
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A tour through Ireland; wherein the present state of that Kingdom is considered; and the most noted cities, towns, seats, buildings, loughs, &c. described. Interspersed with observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquitifs, Curiosities, and Natural History of that Country. To which is Prefixed, a General Description of the Kingdom; with The Distances between the Ports, &c. on the Coast of Great - Britain, and those on that of Ireland.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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The merchants miscellany, and travellers complete compendium; containing a mercantile state and public view of the county of Bedford for 1785. Being a short description of each market town, list of tradesmen, the conveyances, &c. by John Franklin Henington, auctioneer an printer, at Northampton. Price 6 d.
Henington, John Franklin.Date: [1785]- 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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A short relation of the River Nile: of its source and current; Of its Overflowing the Campagnia of Aegypt, 'till it runs into the Mediterranean; and of other curiosities. With a new preface. Written by an eye-witness, who lived many years in the chief kingdoms of the Abyssine Empire.
Lobo, Jerónymo, 1596?-1678.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The travels of the Sieur Mouette, in the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, during his eleven years captivity in those parts.
Mouette, Germain, 1652-approximately 1691.Date: 1710?]- Books
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Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant. By Thomas Shaw, D. D. Fellow of Queen's-College in Oxford, and F. R. S.
Shaw, Thomas, 1694-1751.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant. By Thomas Shaw, D. D. Fellow of Queen's-College in Oxford, and F. R. S.
Shaw, Thomas, 1694-1751.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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Morse's Geography. This day is published, in one large volume octavo, illustrated with maps, a new edition, price 8s. in boards, or 9s. bound. The American geography; or a view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography. - Geographical definitions, discovery, and general description of America and the United States:-Of their boundaries; mountains; lakes; bays and rivers; natural history; productions; population; goverment; agriculture; commerce; manufactures; and history.-A concise account of the war, and of the important events which have succeeded. With a particular description of Kentucky, the western territory, and Vermont.-Of their extent; civil divisions; chief towns; climates; soils; trade; character; constitutions; courts of justice; colleges; academies; religion; islands; Indians; literary and humane societies; springs; curiosities; histories; &c. To which is added, an abridgment of the geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch dominions in America and the West-Indies.-Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiaii Morse.
Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814.Date: 1792- Books
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The foreign travels and dangerous voyages of that renowned English knight Sir John Mandeville. Wherein He gives an Account of Remote Kingdoms, Countries, Rivers, Castles, and Giants of a prodigious Height and Strength. Together with the People called Pigmies, very small and of a low Stature. To which is added, an account of people of odd deformities, some without Heads. - Also dark inchanted Wildernesses, where are fiery Dragons, Griffins, and many wonderful Beasts of Prey, in the Country of Prester-John - All very delightful to the reader.
Mandeville, John, Sir.Date: [1785?]- Books
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A description of Holland: or, the present state of the United Provinces. Wherein is contained, a particular account of the Hague, and all the Principal Cities and Towns of the Republick, with their Buildings, Curiosities, &c. Of the Manner and Customs of the Dutch; their Constition, Legislature, Sovereign Courts, Ministry, Revenue, Forces by Sea and Land, Navy, Admiralty, Bank, East-India Company, Navigation, Commerce, in Asia, Africa, and America; and with Great-Britain, France, Spain, and the other States of Europe. Their Universities, Arts, Sciences, Men of Letters, &c. To which are added, directions for making the tour of the provinces.
Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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Memoir of a map of Ireland; illustrating the topography of that kingdom, and containing a short account of its present state, civil and ecclesiastical; with a complete index to the map. By Daniel Augustus Beaufort, L.L.D. Rector of Navan in the county of meath, and vicar of collon, in the county of Louth. - M. R. I. A.
Beaufort, Daniel Augustus, 1739-1821.Date: 1792- Books
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A new and correct edition of the American geography; or, A view off the present situation of the United States of America: Containing Astronomical geography.-Geographical definitions, discovery, and general description of America and the United States:-Of their boundaries; mountains; lakes; bays and rivers; natural history; productions; population; government; agriculture; commerce; manufactures; and history.-A concise account of the war, and of the important events which have succeeded. With a particular description of Kentucky, the Western Territory, and Vermont.-Of their extent; civil divisions; chief towns; climates; ...; trade; character; constitutions; courts of justice; colleges; academies; religion; islands; Indians; literary and humane societies; springs; curiosities; histories; &c. To which is added an abridgment of the geography of the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch dominions in America and the West Indies.-Of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedidiah Morse. Illustrated with two sheet maps-one of the southern, the other of the northern states-from the latest surveys-with five additional maps, not in any former edition-one of the world as known to the ancients-one of the world, with all the modern discoveries-one of Europe-one of Asia-and one of Africa.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: 1795