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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Holidays on high lands, or, Rambles and incidents in search of Alpine plants / by Hugh Macmillan.
Date: 1869- 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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A description of the western territory of North America; containing a succinct account of its climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners and customs, ... To which is annexed a delineation of the laws and government of the state of Kentucky. ... In a series o letters to a friend in England. By G. Imlay, ...
Imlay, Gilbert, 1754?-1828.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: [1799]- Books
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On sledge and horseback to the outcast Siberian lepers / by Kate Marsden.
Date: 1892- 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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Winters abroad : some information respecting places visited by the author on account of his health : intended for the use of invalids / by R.H. Otter.
Date: 1882- 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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A medical guide to Nice : containing every information necessary to the invalid and resident stranger : with separate remarks on all those diseases to which its climate is calculated to prove injurious or beneficial, especially consumption and scrofula. Also observations on the climate of Bagnères de Bigorre, as the most eligible residence for consumptive patients / by William Farr.
Date: 1841- Books
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The cambrian directory, or, cursory sketches of the Welsh territories. With a chart, comprehending at one view, the advisable route - best inns - distances - and objects most worthy of attention.
Cliff, of Worcester.Date: 1800- Books
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Travels into Turkey: containing the most accurate account of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, Their Manners, Customs, Religion, Superstition, Policy, Riches, Coins, &c. The whole being a series of remarkable observations and events, interspers'd with great variety of entertaining incidents, never before printed. Translated from the original latin of the learned A. G. Busbequius. With Memoirs of the Life of the Illustitious Author.
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Books
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The curiosities of London and Westminster described. In four volumes. Embellished with elegant copper plates. Volume I. Containing a Description of The Tower of London The Monument London Bridge The Custom House The Royal Exchange Bethlem Hospital St. Luke's Hospital The Magdalen House Gresham College Sion College And The South Sea House.
Date: [1799]- 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 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