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Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies. Containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries. And embelished with above 320 copper plates, representing the finest prospects, and most considerable cities in those parts; the different habits of the people; the singular and extraordinary birds, fishes, and plants which are there to be found: as likewise the antiquities of those countries, and particularly the noble ruins of the famous palace of Persepolis, called Chelminar by the Persians. The whole being delineated on the spot, from the respective objects. To which is added, an account of the journey of Mr. Isbrants, ambassador from Muscovy, through Russia and Tartary, to China; together with remarks on the travels of Sir John Chardin, and Mr. Kempfer, and a letter written to the author on that subject. In two volumes. By M. Cornelius Le Bruyn. Translated from the original French. ...
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- 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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About Persia and its people : a description of their manners, customs, and home life, including engagements, marriages, modes of traveling, forms of punishments, superstitions, etc. / by Joseph Knanishu.
Knanishu, Joseph.Date: 1899- Books
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A description, and historical account, of the places, now the theatre of war in the Low Countries; viz. Charlemont, Givet, Arras, - St. Omer, - Bethune, Aire, Lens, Bapaume, Hedin, St. - Venant, Lillers, St. - Paul, Dunkirk, - Berg-St. - Vinox, Cassel, Bourbourg, Gravelines, Lisle, Douay, St. - Amand, Armentieres, Orchies, Comines, La Bassee, Tourcoing, Valenciennes, Maubeuge, Conde, Le Quesnoy, Bouchain, Landrecies, Philippeville, Avesnes, Chimay, Bavay, Cambray, Cateau-Cambresis, Thionville, Montmedi, &c. Embellished with a frontispiece, and plans of the principal fortified places. By Philip Astley, Esq; Of Peter-Street, Dublin, and of Hercules-Hall, Lambeth, London.
Astley, Philip, 1742-1814.Date: 1794- Archives and manuscripts
Harman, Katherine, (fl.1935), wife of Harman, Nathaniel Bishop, F.R.C.S. (1869-1945)
Harman, Katherine, fl.1935Date: July 1935 - November 1935Reference: MS.7394- Books
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A new universal collection of authentic and entertaining voyages and travels, from the earliest accounts to the present time. Judiciously selected from the best writers in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, and other Languages. Comprehending an Account of whatever is Curious in the Government, Commerce, Natural History, Customs, Marriages, Funerals, And other Ceremonies of most Nations in the known World. Including an Account of the most remarkable Discoveries, Conquests, Settlements, Battles, Sea Fights, Hurricanes, Shipwrecks, Sieges, Tortures, Wonderful Escapes, Massacres, and Strange Deliverances, Both by Sea and Land. Aslo A Description of the Buildings, Mountains, Rivers, Harbours, Lakes, Islands, Peninsulas, Creeks, &c. of various Countries. The Whole forming a History of whatever is most worthy of Notice in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Illustrated with maps from the latest Improvements, and beautiful plates, by Grignion, and other celebrated Masters. By Edward Cavendish Drake, Esq;
Drake, Edward Cavendish.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- 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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Mentone, the Riviera, Corsica and Biarritz as winter climates / by J. Henry Bennet.
Date: 1862- Books
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Medical notes on China / by John Wilson.
Date: 1846- Books
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The new British traveller; or, a complete modern universal display of Great-Britain and Ireland: Being a New, Complete, Accurate, and Extensive Tour Through England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isles of Man, Wight, Scilly, Hebrides, Jersey, Sark, Guernsey, Alderney, And other Islands adjoining to and dependent on the Crown of Great-Britain. Comprising all that is worthy of Observation in every County, Shire, &c. And containing a full, ample, and circumstantial Account of every Thing remarkable in the several Cities, Market-Towns, Boroughs, Hundreds, Villages, Hamlets, Parishes, &c. throughout these Kingdoms. Being calculated equally to please the Polite - entertain the Curious - instruct the Uninformed - and direct the Traveller. The Whole Clearly and Accurately Displayed under the Following General Heads: Situation, Etymology, Extent, Roads, Capes, Battles, Sieges, Skirmishes, Civil Commotions, Trading and other Companies, Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Military Offices, Earthquakes, Storms, Inundations, and other singular Occurrences, Rocks, Rivers, Mines, Grottos, Abbey-Lands, Fossils, Caves, Hills, Moors, Springs, Woods, Antiquities-Roman, Danish, and Saxon; Minerals, Plants, Agriculture, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Amphibious Creatures, Castles, Manors, Military Ways, Camps, Docks, Harbours, Bays, Havens, Markets, Fairs, Canals, Buildings, Fortifications, Palaces, Seats, Parks, Bridges, Forests, Cathedrals, Collegiate and Parish Churches, Monuments, Ecclesiastical and Civil Jurisdictions, Corporations, Charters, Charitable Foundations, Institutions, &c. Customs, Manners, &c. Handicrafts, Commodities, Military and Naval Exploits, Lives of all such Persons as have done Honor to the Counties, Towns, or Villages in which they were born, whether Kings, Princes, Peers, Generals, Admirals, Divines, Lawyers, Physicians, Poets, Philosophers, Historians, Legislators, &c. Government, Manufactures, Trades, Commerce, Revenues, Forces, Naval and Military, Polity, Power and Prerogative of the King, Laws, Prerogative, and Customs of the House of Lords, Privileges, Prerogative, & Usages of the House of Commons. Nature of the Legislature, and Modes of Proceeding in the various Courts of Justice, ancient and modern, &c. &c. &c. Being Really the Result of An actual and late General Survey, accurately made by a Society of Gentlemen, Each of whom has undertaken that Part for which his Study and Inclination has more immediately qualified him. And Including a Valuable Collection of Landscapes, Views, County-Maps, &c. Which Make an Admirable and Inimitable Groupe of Elegant Copper-Plate Prints. Also, A Complete Book of the Roads, a List of all the Fairs, and a Variety of other useful and entertaining Particulars, Not to be found in any other Work of the Kind, but which are worthy the Notice of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, Travellers, Traders, and all Ranks of People whatever. The whole published under the immediate inspection of George Augustus Walpoole, Esq. Assisted in the Digest and Arrangement of the Articles respecting Wales, by David Wynne Evans, F. R. S. In those descriptive of Scotland, by Alexander Burnet, L. L. D. And in such as relate to Ireland, &c. by Robert Conway, A. M. And Others, to whom many valuable and curious Circumstances have been communicated (for this Work) by Gentlemen of Rank and Abilities. Embellished with upwards of one hundred and fifty large, grand, and superb views of the principal Cities and Towns in Great-Britain and Ireland; perspective Views of Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, Castles, Ruins, Abbies, Cataracts, Sea Pieces, Landscapes, natural and artificial Curiosities, correct County and other Maps, Charts, Historical Pieces, &c. drawn with critical Exactness by the most capital Painters and Designers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, namely Hamilton, Carter, Griffith, O'Neal, Dodd, Metz, &c. and engraved in the most masterly Manner by the following ingenious Artists, viz. Thornton, Pollard, Lodge, Page, Roberts, Royce, Taylor, Carey, Rennoldson, Wooding, Kitchen, Conder, Hawkins, Walker, Flyn, Simpson, Grainger, Hogg, Myers, Smyth, Clowes, and others, who have distinguished themselves by their great Abilities in the Polite Arts.
Date: 1784- Archives and manuscripts
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Travelling Letter Book
Date: Dec 1901 - Mar 1902Reference: WF/E/01/02/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Epic Iran : 5000 years of culture / John Curtis, Ina Sarikhani Sandmann, Tim Stanley.
Curtis, John, 1946-Date: 2021- Books
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A description of South Carolina; containing, Many curious and interesting Particulars relating to the Civil, Natural and Commercial history of that colony, viz. The Succession of European Settlers there; Grants of English Charters; Boundaries; Constitution of the Government; Taxes; Number of Inhabitants, and of the neighbouring Indian Nations, &c. The Nature of the Climate; Tabular Accounts of the Altitudes of the Barometer Monthly for Four Years, of the Depths of Rain Monthly for Eleven Years, and of the Winds Direction Daily for One Year, &c. The Culture and Produce of Rice, Indian Corn, and Indigo; the Process of extracting Tar and Turpentine; the State of their Maritime Trade in the Years 1710, 1723, 1740 and 1748, with the Number or Tonnage of Shipping employed, and the Species, Quantities and Values of their Produce exported in One Year, &c. To which is added, A very particular Account of their Rice-Trade for Twenty Years, with their Exports of Raw Silk and Imports of British Silk Manufactures for Twenty - five Years.
Glen, James, 1701-1777.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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Travels in the Two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines. Translated from the original Italian of the Abbe Lazzaro Spallanzani, ... In four volumes. - With eleven plates. ...
Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 1729-1799.Date: 1798- 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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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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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 their Boundaries; Mountains; Lakes; Bays, and Rivers; Natural History; Production; Population; Government; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures; and History. - A concise account of the War, and of the important Events which have succeeded: A Particular Description of Kentucky, the Western Territory, the Territory South of Ohio, and Vermong: 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; Mines; Minerals; Military Strength, &c. With a view of the British, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Dutch Dominions, on the Continent, and in the West Indies. By Jedidiah Morse, A.M.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: 1794- Books
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The life and astonishing adventures of John Daniel, a smith at Royston in Hertfordshire, for a course of seventy years. Containing, The melancholy Occasion of his Travels, His Shipwreck with one Companion on a desolate Island. Their way of Life. His accidental discovery of a Woman for his Companion. Their peopling the Island. Also a description of a most surprising eagle, invented by his son Jacob, on which he flew to the moon, with some Account of its Inhabitants. His return, and accidental Fall into the Habitation of a Sea Monster, with whom he lived two Years. His further Excursions in Search of England. His Residence in Lapland, and Travels to Norway, from whence he arrived at Aldborough, and further Transactions till his Death, in 1711. Aged 97.
Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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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 their Boundaries; Mountains; Lakes; Bays, and Rivers; Natural History; Production; Population; Government; Agriculture; Commerce; Manufactures, and History. - A concise Account of the War, and of the important Events which have succeeded: A Particular Discription Of Kentucky, The Western Territory, The Territory South Of Ohio, 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; Mines; Minerals; Military Strength, &c. With A View Of The British, Spanish, French, Portuguese, And Dutch Dominions, ON The Continent, And In The West Indies, And Of Europe, Asia, And Africa. By Jedidiah Morse, A.M.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.Date: 1794- 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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An histori-Geographical description of the north and eastern part of Europe and Asia; but more particularly of Russia, Siberia, and Great Tartary; Both in their Ancient and Modern State: Together with an entire new polyglot-table of the dialects of 32 tartarian nations: and a vocabulary of the Kalmuck - Mungalian tongue. As also, a large and accurate map of those countries; and variety of cuts, representing Asiatick-Scythian Antiquities. Written originally in High German. By Mr. Philip John von Strahtenberg, a Swedish Officer, thirteen Years Captive in those Parts. Now faithfully translated into English.
Strahlenberg, Philipp Johann von, 1676-1747.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Archives and manuscripts
Photograph of Human Figure Carved into Rock at Sarawat
Date: Late 19th CenturyReference: GALTON/1/2/4/11/15Part of: Galton Papers- Books
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The Persian Cromwell: being an account of the life and surprizing atchievements and successes of Miri-Ways, Great Duke of Candahar, and protector of the Persian Empire. Written by a Swedish officer who, for many years, was domestick slave to Miri-Ways. To which is prefix'd, his effigy curiously engraved from an original painting.
Swedish officer.Date: 1724- 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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Notes on the visits to India of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh, 1870 - 1875-6 / by Sir J. Fayrer.
Fayrer, Joseph, Sir, 1824-1907.Date: 1879