34 results filtered with: France - Description and travel
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Letters to a nobleman from a gentleman travelling thro' Holland, Flanders and France. With a description of Ghent, Lisle, &c. and of the courts of Versailles and St. Germains.
Shaw, Joseph, 1671-1733.Date: 1709- Books
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A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787; with particular attention to the agriculture, manufactures, commerce, population, taxes, and revenue of that country; and remarks in passing through a part of France. By Joseph Townsend, A. M. Rector of Pewsey, Wilts; and late of Clare-Hall, Cambridge. In three volumes. ...
Townsend, Joseph, 1739-1816.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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Letters from France; containing a great variety of original information concerning the most important events that have occurred in that country in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, and 1793. By Helen Maria Williams. To which are annexed, The Correspondence of Dumourier with Pache, the War Minister, and with the Commissaries. - Letters of Bournonville, Miranda, Valence, &c. &c. ...
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.Date: 1794- Books
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A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787; ... and remarks in passing through a part of France. By Joseph Townsend, ... In two volumes. ...
Townsend, Joseph, 1739-1816.Date: 1792- Books
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Letters from an officer in the guards to his friend in England: containing some accounts of France and Italy.
Ayscough, George Edward, -1779.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A journey through France, and part of Spain; including many curious and interesting observations. Illustrated by a correct view of Montserrat, and many other descriptive engravings. To which is added, general hints to strangers who travel in France. By Philip Thicknesse.
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792.Date: 1798- Books
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Notes of a journey from Berne to England, through France. Made in the year 1796. By M.D.
Douglas, M.Date: 1797]- Books
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A tour through Holland, Flanders, and part of France. Containing a particular and exact account of most of the great towns, roads, methods of travelling, Customs, Manners, Religion, &c. in those Countries; interspersed with such occasional Sentiments and Reflexions, as may render it both of civil and religious Utility. By Cornelius Cayley, jun. Clerk in the late Princess Dowager of Wales's Treasury.
Cayley, Cornelius, 1729-1780?.Date: 1777- Books
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A new journey to France; with an exact description of the sea-coast from London to Calais, and of the Roads from thence to Orleans, and back again to Dieppe: Giving an Account of the present Condition of that Country. Intermixt with several diverting Adventures and Transactions that happen'd there lately. The whole very Pleasant and Useful for such as Travel that way.
Date: 1715- Books
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Letters from Barbary, France, Spain, Portugal, &c. By an English officer. In two volumes. ...
Jardine, Alexander, -1799.Date: 1789- Books
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The polite traveller: being a modern view of part of Germany, France, and Italy. Containing, A Description of Berlin. Anecdotes of the King of Prussia. Visit to Potsdam and Sans-Souci, Palaces of the King of Prussia. Particulars respecting the Prussian Military Exercise and Discipline. Character and personal Description of the King of Prussia. Short Account of Vienna. Anecdotes of two amiable Court Ladies. Particulars of a Dinner on Mount Calenberg. Description of a German Hunt. Character of the Emperor of Germany. Contrast of Character between the French and Germans. Comparison between English, French, and German Ladies. Remarks on French Manners and Opinions. Short Account of Geneva, its Government, and Inhabitants. The Genevois Military Feast. Journey to the Glaciers of Savoy. Account of the Coast of Naples. Particulars respecting Messina. Journey along the Coast of Sicily. Visit to Mount Aetna, &c. Embellished with an elegant Frontispiece.
Date: [1783]- Books
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A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To Which IS Added, AN Account Of The Most Remarkable Events That Happened At Paris From That Time To The Death Of The Late King Of France. By John Moore, M.D. In two volumes. ...
Moore, John, 1729-1802.Date: 1793- Books
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Memoirs of the present condition of France, and the strength of its fortifications; Particularly, such as lye exposed to the Arms of the Allies, in Artois and Picardy, the number of its forces and the largeness of its revenues. To which is added, Succinct and True Description of the City of Paris, the Courts of Versailles and St. Germains, &c. With a journal of the confederate army, in the reducing of Doway, Bethune, St. Venant and Air in the year 1710. In a letter from the Honourable Ja. Preston, Esq; an English Student in Doway, to his Friend in London.
Preston, Ja. (James).Date: 1711- Books
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Supplement to Mr. Swinburne's Travels through Spain. Being a journey from Bayonne to Marseilles.
Swinburne, Henry, 1743-1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late King of France. By John Moore, M.D. In two volumes. ...
Moore, John, 1729-1802.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
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A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late King of France. By John Moore, M.D. In two volumes. ...
Moore, John, 1729-1802.Date: 1794- Books
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Useful hints to those who make the tour of France, in a series of letters; written from that kingdom. By Philip Thicknesse, Esq. These Letters contain some Account of the interior Police of that Kingdom in general, and of Paris in particular.
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Select views of the antiquities and harbours in the south of France; with topographical and historical descriptions. By the author of the Rhætian Alps, &c. &c.
Beaumont, Albanis, 1755-1812.Date: 1794- Books
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A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late King of France. By John Moore, M.D. In two volumes. Vol. I. [Two lines from Tacitus]
Moore, John, 1729-1802.Date: M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]- Books
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A description of the maritime parts of France, containing a particular account of all the fortified towns, forts, harbours, bays, and rivers, with their Tides, Currents, Soundings, Shoals, &c. Also of all Manufactures, and Articles of Commerce, and of the most remarkable Invasions, Sieges, and Sea-Fights, which have happened on or near that Coast. Illustrated with charts of the Sea-Coast, and Plans of all the Fortified Places on it. Collected from the best Authorities. Engraved by Tho. Jefferys, Geographer to his Majesty. To which are prefixed, A Glossary, and Plans of the several Parts of Fortification, on two Plates, to explain the Terms made Use of in the Work.
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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A curious collection of letters, serious, comical, satyrical and political; chiefly extracted from the Westminster journal. ...
Date: 1761- Books
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Observations on the customs and manners of the French nation, in a series of letters, in which that nation is vindicated from the misrepresentations of some late writers, by Philip Thicknesse, Esq;
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is Added, an Account of the most Remarkable Events that Happened at Paris from that Time to the Death of the Late King of France. By John Moore, M.D. A new edition corrected. In two volumes. ...
Moore, John, 1729-1802.Date: 1793- Books
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A description of the maritime parts of France, containing a particular account of all the fortified towns, forts, harbours, bays, and rivers, ... Illustrated with charts ... Engraved by the late Tho. Jefferys, ...
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.Date: 1774- Books
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Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany. By Hester Lynch Piozzi.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]