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An additional volume to the Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M---y W----y M----e: written during her travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to persons of distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in different Parts of Europe. Which Contain. Among other curious Relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks; Drawn from Sources that have been inaccessible to other Travellers.

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MDCCLXVII. [1767]

Christophori Füreri ab Haimendorf, equitis aurati, duumviri Reip. Noribergensis primarii, & in rebus bellicis consiliarii supremi &c. Itinerarium Aegypti, Arabiae, Palestinae, Syriae, aliarumque regionum orientalium. [Tr. by G. Richter] Addita est oratio funebris [in autorem] et carmina exsequialia. PIs manibus summi viri scripta, cum auctario aliorum ejusdem honori nuncupatorum / [Christoph Fürer].

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1621 [col. 1620]

Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles ... together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.

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M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]

Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 / By J. Carver, esq. captain of a company of provincial troops during the late war with France. Illustrated with copper plates.

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1779

Die Maldiven im 16 und 17 Jahrhundert : ein Kapitel portugiesischer Kolonialgeschichte / von M.A.H. Fitzler.

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1997

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, & 1824 / [Charles Waterton] ; with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history.

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1828

Journey from Moscow to Constantinople, in the years 1817, 1818 / By William Macmichael.

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1819

The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new svrvey of the West-Indias. Containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called, Poconchi. Of Pocoman / By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage.

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1648

The earliest English visitors to the Punjab, 1585-1627 / E.D. Maclagan.

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1997

A tour through the island of Jamaica from the western to the eastern end, in the year 1823 / By Cynric R. Williams.

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1827

Travels in Europe and Africa ... / by Colonel Keatinge. Comprising a journey through France, Spain and Portugal, to Morocco: with a particular account of that empire. Also a second tour through France in 1814.

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1816

Map showing Indian localities in North America, 1833

Trial by ice : the true story of murder and survival on the 1871 Polaris expedition / Richard Parry.

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2001

A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America / by Lionel Wafer, reprinted from the original edition of 1699 ; edited by George Parker Winship.

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1903

Narrative of a tour through Hawaii, or, Owhyhee: with observations on the natural of the Sandwich Islands. And remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of the inhabitants / By William Ellis.

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1827

At the gates of the East : a book of travel among historic wonderlands / by J.P. Barry.

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1906

Joseph Tieffenthaler and his Geography of Hindustan / by S.N. Sen.

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1997

The foreign travels of Sir John Mandeville. Containing, an account of remote kingdoms, countries, rivers, castles, &c. Together with a Description of Giants, Pigmies, and various other People of odd Deformities; as also their Laws, Customs, and Manners. Likewise, enchanted Wildernesses, Dragons, Griffins, and many more wonderful Beasts of Prey, &c. &c.

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[1780?]

Persia seu regni Persici status. Variaque itinera in atque per Persiam: cum aliquot iconibus incolarum / [Joannes de Laet].

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1633

A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts. Containing a geographical, political and natural history of the kingdoms and countries: with a particular account of the rife, progress, and present condition of all the European settlements upon that coast; and the just measures for improving the several branches of the Guinea trade. Illustrated with several cuts. Written originally in Dutch by William Bosman, chief factor for the Dutch at the Castle of St. George d'Elmina. And now faithfully done into English. To which is prefix'd, an exact map of the whole coast of Guinea, that was not in the original.

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MDCCXXI. [1721]

Voyage au Mont Caucase et en Géorgie / Par m. Jules Klaproth.

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1823

Remarks on London: being an exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and the suburbs and liberties contiguous to them, by shewing where every Street, Lane, Court, Alley, Green, Yard, Close, Square, or any other Place, by what Name soever called, is situated in the most Famous Metropolis; so that Letters from the General and Penny-Post Offices cannot Miscarry for the future. An Historical Account of all the Cathedrals, Collegiate and Parochial Churches, Chapels, and Tabernacles, within the Bill of Mortality: Shewing therein the sett Time of publick Prayer, Celebrating the Sacraments, Morning and Evening Lectures, and Preaching Sermons, both Ordinary and Extraordinary; with many curious Observations. Places to which Penny-Post Letters and Parcels are carried, with Lists of Fairs and Markets. What places sends Members to Parliament. To what Inns Flying-Coaches, Stage-Coaches, Waggons and Carriers come, and the Days they go out; lately collected. Keys, Wharts and Plying-Places on the River of Thames. Instructions about the General Post-Office. Description of the great and cross Roads from one City and eminent Town to another, in England and Wales. A perpetual Almanack. The Rates of Caochmen, Chairmen, Carmen, and Watermen. A perpetaul Tide-Table; and several other necessary Tables, adapted to Trade and other Business. All Alphabetically digested; and very useful for all Gentlemen, Ladies, Merchants, Tradesmen, both in City and Country. The like never before extant. By W. Stow.

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1722

Relation historique de l'Éthiopie occidentale contenant la description des royaumes de Congo / Angelle, & Matamba, traduite de l'italien du P. Cavazzi, & augm. de plusieurs relations portugaises des meilleurs auteurs, avec. des notes, des cartes géographiques & un grand nombre de figures en taille-douce. Par le R.P.J.B. Labat.

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1732

Sketches of the country, character, and costume, in Portugal and Spain, made during the campaign, and on the route of the British army, in 1808 and 1809 / Engraved and coloured from the drawings by the Rev. William Bradford ... ; with incidental illustration, and appropriate descriptions, of each subject.

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1809

Journal of a tour made in the years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst accommpanying the late Sir Humphry Davy / By J.J. Tobin.

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1832