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British curiosities in nature and art; exhibiting an account of natural and artificial rareties, both ancient and modern, intermixt with Historical and Geographical Passages. With a very particular Account of the Curiosities in London, and the Two Universities. And an appendix, concerning the posts, markets, and their fairs. To which is added A Scheme, containing other things most proper to be observed by Strangers, in 22 Respects, in as many Columns, curiously Engraved on a Sheet to fold up. The Whole, Adapted to the Use of Strangers, who may Travel to see England, and for such as go thence into Foreign Parts, in order to account for what is Remarkable in their own Country; as appeareth more clearly by the Preface.
Date: 1713- 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 Missionary voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries and illustrated with maps, charts, and views, drawn by Mr. William Wilson, and engraved by the most eminent artists. With a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands; and an appendix, including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite; by a committee appointed for the purpose by the directors of the Missionary Society. Published for the benefit of the society.
Date: 1799- Books
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The traveller's guide through England and Wales: containing, I. The routs [sic] from stage to stage ... IV. Separate alphabetical tables of all cities, ... To which is prefixed, the largest, most accurate, and compleat map ... By Thomas Kitchin, ...
Kitchin, Thomas, -1784.Date: 1783- Books
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The beauties of England: or, a comprehensive view of the chief villages, market-towns, and cities; antiquities; remains of palaces; monasteries; camps; and castles; the two universities: London and Westminster. Divided into the respective counties: and intended as a travelling pocket companion: pointing out whatever is curious, both in art and nature.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: MDCCLXVII [1767]- 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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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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A tour to London; or, new observations on England, and its inhabitants. By M. Grosley, F. R. S. Member of the Royal Academies of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent, LL. D. and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. in two volumes. ...
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718-1785.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- 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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A journey from Birmingham to London, By W. Hutton, F.S.A. Sco.
Hutton, William, 1723-1815.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The new description and state of England, containing the mapps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, Newly Design'd, Exactly Drawn and Engraven by the Best Artists. The several Counties described, the Account of their Ancient and Modern Names, Extent, Soil, Former and Present Inhabitants, their Number, Rarities, Market-Towns, and Days whereon the Markets are kept, Hundreds, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Bridges, Minerals, Commodities, Number of Acres, what Proportion each County pays to the Land-Tax, Archbishopricks, 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. To which is added, a new and exact list of the House of Peers and Commons, and of the Lord-Lieutenants of each County, of the Army, Navy, Officers and Offices, &c. belonging to this kingdom.
Morden, Robert, -1703.Date: 1701- Books
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A general account of Tunbridge Wells, and its environs: historical and descriptive.
Onely, Richard, 1723-1787.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- 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, noblemens [sic] and gentlemens [sic] seats, and other curiosities, ... in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper plate cuts, neatly engraved. ...
Date: 1776-77- Books
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A comparative sketch of England and Italy, with disquisitions on national advantages, in two volumes. ...
Date: [1793]- Books
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Old Rome and London compared, the first in its full glory, and the last in its present state. By which it plainly Appears, That Lipsivs and Vossivs are Egregiously Mistaken, in their Over-Stretched, Fulsom, and Hyperbolical Account of Old Rome; And That London, as it is at Present, Exceeds it much in its Extent, Populousness and many other Advantages. The second edition. To which is added, a comparison between the beauties, &c. of old Rome and London. By a person of quality.
Souligné, de.Date: 1710- Books
Travels over England, Scotland and Wales : giving a true and exact description of the chiefest cities, towns and corporations : together with the antiquities of divers other places, the most famous cathedrals, and other eminent structures, of several remarkable caves and wells, with many other diverting passages never before published / by James Brome, M.A. Rector of Cheriton in Kent ; the design of the said travels, being for the information of the two eldest sons of that eminent merchant Mr. Van-Ackar ; useful for all persons before they travel into foreign countries, and for all those who desire to be made acquainted with the situation and curiosities of these parts.
Brome, James, -1719.Date: 1707- Books
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J. Dickinson's minutes, taken in a tour from London to Brighton, August, 1793.
Dickinson, J., active 1793.Date: 1793]- Books
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London; or, an abridgment of the celebrated Mr. Pennant's description of the British capital, and its environs. Containing, An accurate, succinct, and interesting Account Of the most memorable Revolutions in Politics, Historical Events, Treasons, Fires, Public Executions, Remarkable Murders, and singular Robberies. Critical Observations on the public Buildings; a Review of their History; and a candid Examination of their Perfections and Defects. To which are prefixed, Notes, Additions, and Observations; and four capital plates. By Mr. John Wallis.
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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A general bill of all the christnings and burials In the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, Middlesex, from the 21st of December 1778, to the 21st of December 1779. Presented by their obedient Servant, George Goodyer, Deputy Clerk. Whereof have died, Years of Age, Under Two Years of Age 68 Between Two and Five - 28 Five and Ten - - 5 Ten and Twenty - - 6 Twenty and Thirty - - 18 Thirty and Forty - - 16 Forty and Fifty - - - 22 Fifty and Sixty - - 18 Sixty and Seventy - - 20 Seventy and Eighty - - 19 Eighty and Ninety - - 8 Ninety and a Hundred - 2 In all 230 Diseases and Casualties. Aged - - - 20 Ague - - - - - 6 Apoplexy and Suddenly - 5 Asthma - - - - - 6 Cancer - - - - 2 Cholic - - - - - 3 Consumption - - 59 Convulsions - - - - 18 Dropsy - - - 4 Drowned by Accident - 1 Fever - - - 16 Fits - - - - - - 20 Gout - - - 1 Gripes - - - - - 6 Hooping Cough - - 3 Inflammation - - 3 Measles - - - - - 4 Mortification - - 3 Palsy - - - - - 6 Small Pox - - 26 Teeth - - - - - 10 Thrush - - - 8 In all 230 Abortive and Still-Born 7 Christned Males 64 Females 66 In all 130 Decreased in the Baptisms this Year 13. Buried Males 140 Females 90 In all 230 Decreased in the Burials this Year 5. N. B. Out of which Number of Burials were 22 Strangers buried.
Parish of Saint Luke (Chelsea, London, England)Date: 1779]- Books
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Observations on the western parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty. To which are added, a few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight. By William Gilpin, M. A. prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New Forest, Near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: 1798- Books
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Observations on the western parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty. To which are added, a few remarks on the picturesque beauties on the Isle of Wight. By William Gilpin, M.A. prebendary of Salisbury; and vicar of Boldre in New Forest, near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: 1798- Books
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A tour to the west of England, in 1788. By the Rev. S. Shaw, M. A. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge.
Shaw, Stebbing, 1762-1802.Date: 1789- Books
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A description of Stonehenge, on Salisbury plain; extracted from the works of the most eminent authors: with Some Modern Observations on That Stupendous Structure: to which is added, an account of the fall of three stones, Jan. 3, 1797.
Date: 1800- 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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A Description of Brighthelmstone and the adjacent country, or, The new guide for ladies and gentlemen resorting to that place of health and amusement.
Date: [1782?]