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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.
Stow, William.Date: 1722- Books
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A short description of the Isle of Thanet; being chiefly intended as a directory for the Company resorting to Margate, Ramsgate, and Broadstairs. By Robert Edward Hunter, Surgeon. With a new map of the island.
Hunter, Robert Edward.Date: 1799- Books
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The new and complete English traveller: or, a new historical survey and modern description of England and Wales. ... Written ... by a society of gentlemen; ... Revised, corrected, and improved, by William Hugh Dalton, ...
Date: [1794]- 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]- Archives and manuscripts
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Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I)
Date: Early 14th century - Late 17th CenturyReference: MS.531- Books
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A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, In and about London and Westminister. Originally written by - Ralphk, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions. The whole being digested into a six days tour, in which every thing worthy the attention of the judicious enquirer, is pointed out and described.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1783- Books
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Collections towards a description of the county of Devon. By Sir William Pole, of Colcombe and Shute, Knt.; (who died A. D. 1635;) now first printed from the autograph in the possession of his lineal descendant Sir John-William de la Pole, Bart. of Shute, &c. in Devonshire.
Pole, William, Sir, 1561-1635.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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An essay explaining the mode of executing a useful work, entitled, A new description of England and Wales, as a continuation and illustration of Camden.
Muilman, Peter, approximately 1713-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The traveller's companion, in a tour through England and Wales; containing a catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, Plantations, Scenes, and Situations, in England and Wales, arranged According to the Alphabetical Order of the several Counties; by the late Mr. Gray, Author of the Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard, &c. To which are now added, considerable improvements and additions, by Thomas Northmore Esq.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.Date: [1799]- Books
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The beauties of England: giving a descriptive view of the chief villages, market-towns, and cities; Antiquities, Parks, Plantations, Scenes, And Situations, In in England and Wales; Including The Seats Of Our Nobility And Gentry, And The Two Universities. The Whole Intended AS A Travelling Companion, To Point Out Whatever IS Curious Either In Art, OR In Nature. By Philip Luckombe. ...
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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A journey from London to Scarborough, in several letters from a gentleman there, to his friend in London. Letter I. The Passage to Scarborough by Sea. An Account of what is most remarkable in the Way thither by Land, and a Description of the several Towns, Villages, Gentlemen's Seats, &c. on the Road, particularly Edmonton, Cheshunt, Ware, the New-River Head, Puckeridge, Gogmagog-Hills and Cambridge. Letter II. St. Ives, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Stilton, Burleigh-House and Park, Stamford, Lord Gainsborough's Seat, the Roman Fosseway, Grantham, Lord Tyrconnel's Seat and Park, Ancaster, Lincoln, the Cathedral and Castle. Letter III. Lincoln-Heath, Spittle, the Wolds of Lincolnshire, Redbourn, Hibberstow, Barton on the Humber, Hull, the Garrison, &c. Letter IV. Beverley, the Minster; Driffield, Foxhole and Seymore; thence to Scarborough. Letter V. Scarborough, the Description of it towards the Sea, and its lofty Situation; the Harbour and Piers; the Shipping; great Plenty and Variety of Fish; the beautiful Parterre on the Sands; Sports and Exercises there; of the Spaw, the Resort thither of late Years; a humorous Description and Character of Dicky Dickinson, Keeper of the Wells; the manner of Gentlemen and Ladies bathing in the Sea, Verses on a Lady bathing in the Sea. The Town and Buildings described, Ledgings, and Provisions, number of Inhabitants, Hackney-Chairs. Long-Room, its pleasant and lofty Situation, Balls and Assemblies, the Phar? Bank, Billiard-Tables, &c. The Ordinaries, and the Custom of them; the Play-House, Booksellers Shop, the Coffee-House; with an Account of the various Diversions and agreeable Amusements of the Place. With a list of the nobility, quality, and gentry at Scarborough, during the spaw season, in the year 1733 . Taken from the Subscription-Books at The Spaw, and The Long-Room, The Booksellers Shop, and The Coffee-House. To which is annex'd an account of the nature and us of the Scarborough spaw-water, interspers'd with some Observations and Remarks.
Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
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The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, newly design'd by Mr. Robert Morden, Exactly Drawn and Engraven by the Best Artists. The several Counties described, the Account of their Ancient and Modern Names, Soil, Former and Present Inhabitants, their Number, Rarities, Market-Towns, and Days whereon Markets are kept, Hundreds, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Bridges, Minerals, Commodities, Number of Acres, what Proportion each Country pays to the Land-Tax, Archbishopticks, Bishopricks, Cathedrals, Parish-Churches, Schools, Hospitals, Roads and Distances, Roman Ways, Post-Towns, Men of Note, Memorable Battles and Actions, the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry, an Account of Fairs, &c.
Morden, Robert, -1703.Date: 1704- 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: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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Prospects and observations; on a tour in England and Scotland: natural, oeconomical, and literary. By Thomas Newte, Esq.
Thomson, William, 1746-1817.Date: 1791- Books
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Ambulator: or, A pocket companion in a tour round London, within the circuit of twenty five miles: Describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur: elegance, or rural beauty: including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and bigraphical observations: to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis and a map of the country described.
Date: 1792- Books
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The history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent. Containing, I. The Original Foundation, and the Antient and Modern State thereof. II. An exact Description of all the Wards, Parishes, Parish-Churches, Palaces, Halls, Hospitals, Publick Offices, Edifices, and Monuments, of any Account, throughout the said Cities, Borough, &c. III. A particular Account of the Government of the said Cities, &c. Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military; of all the Charters, Liberties, Privileges, and Customs; and of all the Livery and other Companies, with their Coats of Arms. IV. Lists of all Offices and Officers of His Majesty's Revenues and Household, and those of the rest of the Royal Family; together with the Salaries thereunto belonging. V. The Antiquities of Westminster-Abbey, with a Description of the Monuments, Tombs, &c. VI. A View and Description of the Mansion-House, and Westminster-Bridge. In which is introduced Sir William Dugdale's History of St. Paul's Cathedral from its Foundation: Beautified with various Prospects of the Old Fabrick, which was destroyed by the Fire of London, 1666. As also the Figures of the Tombs and Monuments therein, as they stood in September, 1641, with their Epitaphs neatly imitated, which were defaced in the Grand Rebellion; with an Account of the Foundation and Structure of the New Church till finished. To which is prefixed the Effigies of Sir William Dugdale. The whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's, and other historical writers and surveys. Dedicated to Sir Crisp Gascoyne, Knt. By a gentleman of the Inner-Temple.
Mottley, John, 1692-1750.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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The survey and antiquity of the towns of Stamford in the county of Lincoln and Tottenham-High-Cross in Middlesex. Together with the Turnament of Tottenham: or, the wooing, winning, and wedding of Tibbe the Reeu's daughter there.
Date: 1717 [1718]- Books
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An appeal from Scotland. Messrs. Hodgson and Donaldson, Merchants, in London, - - - - Appellants. Thomas Bushby, of Ardwell, - - Respondent. The Appellants' case.
Hodgson and Donaldson (merchants : London, England)Date: 1783]- Books
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The sentimental traveller, or a descriptive tour through life, figuratively as a trip to Melasge, in which is included the adventures of a gentleman in the East-Indies: the whole forming a system of education, with instructions to a young gentleman, entering into life. I two volumes.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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A short tour in the midland counties of England; performed in the summer of 1772. Together with an account of a similar excursion, undertaken September 1774.
Quincey, Thomas, active 1772-1774.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-Lands of Scotland. ... . By William Gilpin, A. M. Prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New-Forest, Near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-Lands of Scotland. ... . By William Gilpin, A.M. Prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New-Forest, near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A new view of London; or, an ample account of that city, in two volumes, or eight sections. ...
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: 1708- Books
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The history of Hertfordshire; Describing the county, and its Antient Monuments, Particularly the Roman. With The character of Those that have been the chief Possessors of the Lands. And An Account of the most Memorable Occurrences. By N. Salmon, LL. B.
Salmon, N. (Nathaniel), 1675-1742.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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British curiosities in nature and art; exhibiting an account of natural and artificial rareties, both ancient and modern, intermixt with Historical and Geographical Passages. With a very particular Account of the Curiosities in London, and the Two Universities. And an appendix, concerning the posts, markets, and their fairs. To which is added A Scheme, containing other things most proper to be observed by Strangers, in 22 Respects, in as many Columns, curiously Engraved on a Sheet to fold up. The Whole, Adapted to the Use of Strangers, who may Travel to see England, and for such as go thence into Foreign Parts, in order to account for what is Remarkable in their own Country; as appeareth more clearly by the Preface.
Date: 1713