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A picture of England: containing a description of the laws, customs, and manners of England. Interspersed with curious and interesting Anecdotes Of Many Eminent Persons. Translated from the original German of W. de Archenholtz. Formerly A Captain In The Prussian Service. A new translation.
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 1743-1812.Date: 1797- Books
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English traits / by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; edited by Howard Mumford Jones.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882Date: [1966], ©1966- Books
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A new tour thro' England, perform'd in the summers of 1765, 1766, and 1767, by George Beaumont, Esq; and Capt. Henry Disney. Describing whatever is curious, in the several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Market Towns, and Villages of Note, in the Kingdom: Including All the Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parochial Churches; Palaces antient and modern; Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; Remains of British, Roman and Saxon Antiquities, worthy the Inspection of Gentlemen or Others, who travel for Amusement, Instruction, or Business. With a new map of England, by Kitchen, Accurately engraved, and finely coloured. With the exact Distances by the Mile-Stones.
Beaumont, George, traveller.Date: [1768?]- Books
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A journey into Cornwall, through the counties of Southampton, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset & Devon: interspersed with remarks, moral, historical, literary, and political. By George Lipscomb.
Lipscomb, George, 1773-1846.Date: 1799- Books
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A description of England and Wales. Containing a particular account of each county ... Embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals; ...
Date: 1769-70- Books
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A topographical survey of the counties of Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, commonly called the western circuit. Containing An accurate and comprehensive Description of all the Principal Direct and Cross Roads In Each Respective County. In which the Situations of all the Towns, Villages, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, Navigable Rivers, Canals, &c. upon and in the Vicinity of each Road, are particularly expressed, and their relative Distances exactly ascertained. Embellished with new and elegantly engraved maps of the several Counties, Taken from actual Surveys, And laid down with great Accuracy on a large Scale. Also A General Map of the Western Circuit. And many Hundreds of Elegant Engravings of the Arms of the Subscribers, Arranged in a Manner entirely New, and neatly finished by an eminent Artist. Likewise copious and complete indexes of all the roads, Exhibiting at one View the several Stages, principal Inns, Fairs, and other Objects of Note thereon. To Which Are Added, Accurate Tables of the Distances from Town to Town, in each County, and throughout the West of England. Together With The Names of the Nobility, Gentry, and other Subscribers, their respective Seats and Places of Residence, with proper References to the same in the Body of the Work. The whole adapted to the various Uses of the Gentleman and Traveller in each respective County. By William Tunnicliff, Land-Surveyor.
Tunnicliff, William.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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A view of the British Empire, more especially Scotland; with some proposals for the improvement of that country, the extension of its fisheries, and the relief of the people. By John Knox. ...
Knox, John, 1720-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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England described: or, the traveller's companion. Containing Whatever is curious in the several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Market Towns and Villages of Note, in the Kingdom. Including Churches, Palaces, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, British, Roman and Saxon Antiquities, Markets, Fairs, Members of Parliament for each County, City and Borough, &c. To which is added, as an appendix, a brief account of Wales.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A walk through some of the western counties of England. By the Revd. Richard Warner, of Bath.
Warner, Richard, 1763-1857.Date: 1800- Books
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A six months tour through the North of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several Counties of this Kingdom. Particularly, I. The Nature, Value, and Rental of the Soil. II. The Size of Farms, with Accounts of their Stock, Products, Population, and various Methods of Culture. III. The Use, Expence, and Profit of several Sorts of Manure. IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the respective Profits attending them. V. The State of the Waste Lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The Condition and Number of the Poor, with their Rates, Earnings, &c. Vii. The Prices of Labour and Provisions, and the Proportion between them. Viii. The Register of many curious and useful Experiments in Agriculture, and general Practices in rural Oeconomics communicated by several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed With Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; and other remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of such Implements of Husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and Views of some picturesque Scenes, which occurred in the Course of the Journey. In four volumes. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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Bowles's new medium English atlas; or, Complete set of maps of the counties of England and Wales: Divided into their respective hundreds, wapontakes, wards, rapes, lathes &c. Exhibiting the roads, rivers, cities; borough, market, and sea-port towns; principal villages and places of note; with their distances from London, and members sent to Parliament; also church-livings, seats of the nobility, and a variety of historical extracts relative to the natural produce, trade, manufactures and commerce. Compiled and laid down from the latest authorities. 1 General map of England and Wales. 2 Bedsershire 3 Berkshire 4 Buckinghamshire 5 Cambridgeshire 6 Cheshire 7 Cornwall 8 Cumberland and Wesmorland 9 Derbyshire 10 Devonshire 11 Dorsetshire 12 Durham 13 Essex 14 Goucestershire 15 Hampshire 16 Hartfordshire 17 Herefordshire 18 Huntingdonshire 19 Kent 20 Lancashire 21 Leicester and Rutland 22 Lincoln 23 Middlesex 24 Monmouthshire 25 Norfolk 26 Northamptonshire 27 Northumberland 28 Notinghamshire 29 Oxfordshire 21 Rutland (see Leicester) 30 Shropshire 31 Somersetshire 32 Staffordshire 33 Suffolk 34 Surry 35 Sussex 36 Warwickshire 8 Westmorland (see Cumberland) 37 Wiltshire 38 Worcestershire 39 Yorkshire 40 East riding, Yorkshire 41 West riding, Yorkshire 42 North riding, Yorkshire 43 North Wales 44 South Wales[.]
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A view of the British Empire, more especially Scotland; With some proposals for the improvement of that country, the extension of its fisheries, and the relief of the people. By John Knox; the original editor of Guthrie's geographical grammar.
Knox, John, 1720-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]
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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 Small English atlas being a new and accurate sett of maps of all the counties in England and Wales.
Date: 1749- Books
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The geography of England: Done in the Manner of Gordon's Geographical Grammar, Each County being consider'd under the following Heads: viz. The Name, situation, air, soil, Commodities, Rivers, Chief Towns, Noblemen's Seats, Curiosities Natural and Artificial, Remarkable Persons, Various Particulars. To each County is Prefix'd A compleat Mapp from the Latest and Best Observations, shewing the Chief Towns, Parks, Rivers and Roads, both direct and across. Also A Separate Mapp of England, of the Roads, Of the Channel, and a Plan of London. Likewise, By Way of Introduction, A Clear and Distinct View of our Constitution, And every Branch of the Legislature.
Date: M,DCC,XLIV. [1744]- Books
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Travels, chiefly on foot, through several parts of England, in 1782. Described in letters to a friend, by Charles P. Moritz, a literary gentleman of Berlin. Translated from the German, by a lady.
Moritz, Karl Philipp, 1756-1793.Date: 1795- Books
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Sketch of a tour into Derbyshire and Yorkshire, including part of Buckingham, Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Northampton, Bedford, and Hertford-Shires.
Bray, William, 1736-1832.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A view of the British Empire, more especially Scotland; with some proposals for the improvement of that country, the extension of its fisheries, and the relief of the people. By John Knox.
Knox, John, 1720-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A six months tour through the north of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom. Particularly, I. The Nature, Value, and Rental of the Soil. II. The Size of Farms, with Account of their Stock, Products, Population, and various Methods of Culture. III. The Use, Expence, and Profit of several Sorts of Manure. IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the respective Profits attending them. V. The State of the Waste Lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The Condition and Number of the Poor, with their Rates, Earnings &c. Vii. The Prices of Labour and Provisions, and the Proportion between them. Viii. The Register of many curious and useful Experiments in Agriculture, and general Practices in rural Oeconomics communicated by several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed with Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; and other remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of such Implements of Husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and Views of some picturesque Scenes, which occurred in the Course of the Journey. Experiments on Rearing and Fattening of Hogs. As laid before the Society of Arts, &c. In three volumes. ...
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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The relation of a journey into England and Holland, in the years, 1706, and 1707. By a Saxon physician, in a letter to his friend at Dresden, wherein are contain'd many remarkable Passages and curious Observations in Anatomy, Surgery, Physick, and Philosophy. By Ch. Ed. Physician in ordinary to the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony, &c. Translated from the Latin.
Erndl, Christian Heinrich, 1676-1734.Date: 1711- Books
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Letters written from Leverpoole, Chester, Corke, the lake of Killarney, Dublin, Tunbridge-Wells, and Bath. By Samuel Derrick, Esq; Master of the Ceremonies at Bath. ...
Derrick, Samuel, 1724-1769.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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Observations relative chiefly to the natural history, picturesque scenery, and antiquities, of the western counties of England, made in the years 1794 and 1796. Illustrated by a mineralogical map, and sixteen views in aquantinta by Alken. By William George Maton, ...
Maton, William George, 1774-1835.Date: 1797- Books
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A view of the British empire, more especially Scotland; with some proposals for the improvement of that country, the extension of its fisheries, and the relief of the people.
Knox, John, 1720-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A view of the British Empire, more especially Scotland; With some proposals for the improvement of that country, the extension of its fisheries, and the relief of the people. By John Knox.
Knox, John, 1720-1790.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A supplement to the tour through Great-Britain, containing a catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, plantations, ... by the late Mr. Gray, ... To which are now added, by another hand, several additions; ...
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.Date: 1787