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Travels through Arabia, and other countries in the East, performed by M. Niebuhr, ... Translated into English by Robert Heron. With notes by the translator; and illustrated with engravings and maps. In two volumes. ...
Niebuhr, Carsten, 1733-1815.Date: 1792- Books
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A journey through Russia into Persia; by two English gentlemen, who went in the year 1739, from Petersburg, in order to make a discovery how the trade from Great Britain might be carried on from Astracan over the Caspian. To which is annex'd, a summary account of the rise of the famous Kouli Kan, and his successes, till he seated himself on the Persian throne.
Spilman, James.Date: 1742- Books
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The heart of Africa : three years' travels and adventures in the unexplored regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871 / by Georg Schweinfurth ; translated by Ellen E. Frewer ; with an introduction by Winwood Reade.
Date: 1873- Books
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A new and more correct translation than has hitherto appeared in public, of Mr. Cornelius Le Brun's Travels into Moscovy, Persia, and divers parts of the East-Idies; containing an accurate description of all such articles as are most remarkable in each of those different countries. As also, of their antiquities; but more particularly those relating to the famous palace of Persepolis, commonly called Chelminar by the Persians / By a gentleman of Oxford.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: 1759- Books
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An accurate description of the island and kingdom of Sicily; its provinces, towns and remarkable places, as well as the islands belonging to it: with an account of the public roads, for the benefit of Travellers; the Distance of one place from another, and what is worthy of Observation in each Place. Likewise, the origin and foundation of towns: - The Rarities which are to be seen in their Churches, Convents, Colleges, Hospitals, &c. Their Palaces described: And the Political Government of Sicily-The Names of the Great and Illustrious Men it produced, as well as of the present Principal Famalies residing in that Kingdom. To which is added, A narrative of the island and kingdom of Sardinia. The whole newly translated from the French, by D. Macnab, of His Majesty's Customs.
Avity, Pierre d', sieur de Montmartin, 1573-1635.Date: 1786- Books
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The memoirs of Khojeh Abdulkurreem, a cashmerian of distinction, Who accompanied Nadir Shah, on his return from Hindostan to Persia; from whence he travelled to Baghdad, Damascus, and Aleppo, and after visiting Medina and Mecca, embarked in a ship at the port of Jeddeh, and sailed to Hooghly in Bengal. Including The History of Hindostan, from A. D. 1739 to 1749: with an account of the European Settlements in Bengal, and on the Coast of Coromandel. Translated from the original Persian. By Francis Gladwin, Esq.
Abd Al-Karim Ibn Akibat Ibn Muhammad Bulaki, al-Kashmiri.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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The memoirs of Khojeh Abdulkurreem, a Cashmerian of distinction, Who accompanied Nadir Shah, on his return from Hindostan to Persia; from whence he travelled to Baghdad, Damascus, and Aleppo, and after visiting Medina and Mecca, embarked on a ship at the port of Jeddeh, and sailed to Hooghly in Bengal. Including The History of Hindostan, from A. D. 1739 to 1749: with an account of the European Settlements in Bengal, and on the Coast of Coromandel. Translated from the original Persian, by Francis Gladwin, Esq.
Abd Al-Karim Ibn Akibat Ibn Muhammad Bulaki, al-Kashmiri.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Continental travel : with an appendix on the influence of climate, the remedial advantages of travelling, &c / by Edwin Lee.
Lee Edwin, -1870.Date: 1848- Books
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A new and more correct translation than has hitherto appeared in public, of Mr. Cornelius Le Brun's travels into Moscovy, Persia, and divers parts of the East-Indies; containing an accurate description of all such articles as are most remarkable in each of those different countries, and most worthy the attention of the curious reader. As also of their antiquities; but more particularly those relating to the famous palace of Persepolis, commonly called Chelminar by the Persians: by a gentleman of Oxford. Adorn'd with a large number of copper-plates.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: M.DCC.LIX [1759]- Books
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A description of the county of Angus, translated from the original Latin of Robert Edward, Minister Of Murroes.
Edward, Robert, approximately 1616-1696.Date: [1793]- Books
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Sotheran's York guide; including a description of the public buildings, antiquities, &c. &c. in and about that ancient city. Illustrated with nine copperplates.
Sotheran, Henry.Date: [1796]- Books
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An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, Price Courants, and Tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, ..., Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, ..., Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena. Their Inhabitants, Customs, Religion; Government, Animals, Fruits, &c. To which is added, an account of the management of the Dutch in their affairs in India. By Charles Lockyer.
Lockyer, Charles.Date: 1711- Books
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Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography ; statistical, biographical, and historical / edited by Francis H. Groome.
Date: 1885- Books
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The origin and description of Bognor, or Hothamton; and an account of some adjacent villages / by J. D. Davis.
Date: 1807- Books
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The climate of Jamaica / by James Cecil Phillippo.
Phillippo James Cecil.Date: 1876- Books
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Topography of Assam / by John M'Cosh.
Date: 1837- Books
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Holidays on high lands, or, Rambles and incidents in search of Alpine plants / by Hugh Macmillan.
Date: 1869- Books
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The history of Persia. Containing, the lives and memorable actions of its kings from the first erecting of that monarchy to this time; an exact Description of all its Dominions; a curious Account of India, China, Tartary, Kermon, Arabia, Nixabur, and the Islands of Ceylon and Timor; as also of all Cities occasionally mention'd, as Schiras, Samarkand, Bokara, &c. Manners and Customs of those People, Persian Worshippers of Fire; Plants, Beasts, Product, and Trade. With many instructive and pleasant digressions, being remarkable Stories or Passages, occasionally occurring, as Strange Burials; Burning of the Dead; Liquors of several Countries; Hunting; Fishing; Practice of Physick; famous Physicians in the East; Actions of Tamerlan, &c. To which is added, an abridgment of the lives of the kings of Harmuz, or Ormuz. The Persian history written in Arabick, by Mirkond, a famous Eastern Author that of Ormuz, by Torunxa, King of that Island, both of them translated into Spanish, by Antony Teixeira, who liv'd several Years in Persia and India; and now render'd into English. By Captain John Stevens.
Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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China from a medical point of view in 1860 and 1861 : to which is added a chapter on Nagasaki as a sanitarium / by Charles Alexander Gordon.
Gordon C. A. (Charles Alexander), Sir, 1821-1899.Date: 1863- Books
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Wintering at Menton on the Riviera : a compagnon de voyage, with hints to invalids / by Alexander M. Brown.
Date: 1872- Books
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Sotheran's York guide; including a description of the public buildings, antiquities, &c. &c. in and about that ancient city. Illustrated with nine copperplates.
Sotheran, Henry.Date: [1799]- Books
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A journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople 1808-09 : in which is included, some account of the proceedings of His Majesty's mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K.C. to the court of the King of Persia / by James Morier.
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849.Date: 1812- 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: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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On sledge and horseback to the outcast Siberian lepers / by Kate Marsden.
Date: 1892- Books
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A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia ... / By Edward Ives.
Ives, Edward, -1786.Date: 1773