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A man travelling on a sledge drawn by five dogs in Kamchatka. Engraving by S. Middiman, 1784, after J. Webber.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566749i- Archives and manuscripts
Printed material by Dr. Richard King
Date: 1844-1845Reference: MS.8682/16-18Part of: McCormick, Robert (1800-1890)- Books
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An historical account of the British trade over the Caspian Sea: with a journal of travels from London through Russia into Persia, and back again through Russia, Germany, and Holland. To which are added, the revolutions of Persia during the present century, with the particular history of the great usurper Nadir Kouli. In two volumes. By Jonas Hanway, Merchant.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to diverse parts of Asia / By John Bell. To which is added, a translation of the journal of Mr. de Lange.
Bell, John, 1691-1780.Date: 1763- Books
A journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin, 1719-22 / J. Bell ; edited with an introduction by J.L. Stevenson.
Bell, John, 1691-1780.Date: [1965]- Archives and manuscripts
Percy, John (1817-1889), metallurgist
Percy, John (1817-1889), metallurgistDate: 1860-1865Reference: MS.7400/78-81Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Davy, John, M.D. F.R.S. (1790-1868), Army surgeon: travel journals
Davy, John, M.D. F.R.S., 1790-1868, Army surgeon: travel journalsDate: 1816-1847Reference: MSS.7696-7701- Books
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Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to diverse parts of Asia. In two volumes. By John Bell, of antermony. Volume I. Containing a journey to Ispahan in Persia, in the years 1715, 1716, 1717, and 1718. Part of a journey to Pekin in China, through Siberia, in the years 1719, 1720, and 1721. With a map of the author's two routes between Mosco and Pekin.
Bell, John, 1691-1780.Date: [1763]- Books
Tigers, gold, and witch-doctors / by Bassett Digby.
Digby, Bassett, 1888-1962.Date: [1928]- Pictures
A shaman of Kamchatka, Russia. Coloured etching.
Date: [1811]Reference: 47039i- Books
A journey from India to England, through Persia, Georgia, Russia, Poland, and Prussia, in the year 1817 / By Lieut. Col. John Johnson.
Johnson, John, Lieut. Col.Date: 1818- Books
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A journey over land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the great South-Sea. Performed by John Cockburn, and five other Englishmen, viz. Thomas Rounce, Richard Banister, John Holland, Thomas Robinson, and John Ballman; Who were taken by a Spanish Guarda-Costa, in the John and Jane, Edward Burt Master, and set on Shoar at a Place called Forto-Cavalo, naked and wounded, as mentioned in several News-Papers of October, 1731. Containing, Variety of extraordinary Distresses and Adventures, and some New and Useful Discoveries of the Inland of those almost unknown Parts of America: As also, An exact Account of the Manners, Customs, and Behaviour of the several Indians inhabiting a Tract of Land of 2400 Miles; particularly of their Dispositions towards the Spaniards and English. To which is added, a curious piece, written in the reign of King James I. and never before printed, intitled, A brief discoverye of some things best worth noteinge in the travells of Nicholas Withington, a Factor in the East-Indiase.
Cockburn, John, Mariner.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Archives and manuscripts
Journal of travels in the West Indies, from Barbados to Grenada, Antigua, Montserrat and St. Kitts
Date: 1846Reference: MS.7700Part of: Davy, John, M.D. F.R.S. (1790-1868), Army surgeon: travel journals- Books
Richard Bright, Edward Brown, and John Paget's travels in Hungary / J. Honti.
Honti, J.Date: 1974- Books
The first Englishmen in India : letters and narratives of sundry Elizabethans / written by themselves and edited with an introduction and notes by J. Courtenay Locke.
Date: [1930]- Books
Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island : an account of their forests, rivers, coasts, gold fields and resources for colonisation / by Commander R.C. Mayne.
Mayne, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1835-1892.Date: 1862- Books
History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe ... / by Bisset Hawkins.
Hawkins, Francis Bisset, 1796-1894.Date: 1831- Archives and manuscripts
Lander, John (1807-1839), explorer of the River Niger
Date: 1835Reference: MS.7330/37Part of: Explorers and Travellers in Africa- Books
The itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502-1508 / as translated from the original Italian edition of 1510, by John Winter Jones, F.S.A., in 1863 for the Hakluyt Society; with a Discourse on Varthema and his travels in southern Asia, by Sir Richard Carnac Temple, bt.
Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century.Date: 1928- Books
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Remarks on prints, intended to be published, relative to the manners, customs, &c. of the present inhabitants of Egypt. From drawings made on the spot, A.D. 1749. By Richard Dalton, Esq.
Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Archives and manuscripts
Richard Whiteing: Letters to Dr [Arthur R] Waddell
Richard WhiteingDate: Early 20th centuryReference: MS.8157- Archives and manuscripts
Taylor, John Ellor (1837-1895), popular science writer
Date: 1863Reference: MS.7684/85Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Bruin, Cornelis de (1652-1719)
Bruin, Cornelis de, 1652-1719, travellerDate: c.1750Reference: MSS.1378-1379- Books
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Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor : and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China with adventures among the Mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks: the Hunting and Pastoral tribes / by Thomas Witlam Atkinson.
Atkinson, Thomas Witlam, 1799-1861.Date: 1861- Books
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Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe : Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875 / by J.A. Harvie-Brown.
Harvie-Brown, J. A. (John Alexander), 1844-1916.Date: 1905