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A letter from an English traveler at Rome, to his father of the 6th of May, 1721. O.S.
English traveller.Date: Printed in the year 1721- Books
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A new universal collection of authentic and entertaining voyages and travels, from the earliest accounts to the present time. Judiciously selected from the best writers in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, and other Languages. Comprehending an Account of whatever is Curious in the Government, Commerce, Natural History, Customs, Marriages, Funerals, And other Ceremonies of most Nations in the known World. Including an Account of the most remarkable Discoveries, Conquests, Settlements, Battles, Sea Fights, Hurricanes, Shipwrecks, Sieges, Tortures, Wonderful Escapes, Massacres, and Strange Deliverances, Both by Sea and Land. Aslo A Description of the Buildings, Mountains, Rivers, Harbours, Lakes, Islands, Peninsulas, Creeks, &c. of various Countries. The Whole forming a History of whatever is most worthy of Notice in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. Illustrated with maps from the latest Improvements, and beautiful plates, by Grignion, and other celebrated Masters. By Edward Cavendish Drake, Esq;
Drake, Edward Cavendish.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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A new universal collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of the most esteemed relations which have been hitherto published in all languages. Containing every thing remarkable in the various parts of the known world: also the customs and manners of the several inhabitants. Illustrated with maps, plans, and other copper plates, neatly Engraved. In Three Volumes.
Date: 1755- Books
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The Flowers of modern travels; being elegant, entertaining and instructive extracts, selected from the works of the most celebrated travellers; such as Lord Lyttleton, Sir W. Hamilton, Baron de Tott, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Moore, Dr. Troil, Addison, Brydone, Cox, Wraxall, Savary, Topham, Sherlock, Douglas, Swinburne, Lady M.W. Montague, &c. &c. Intended chiefly for young people of both sexes. By the Rev. John Adams, A.M. ...
Date: 1797- Books
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The route to India through France, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Natolia, Syria, and the desart of Arabia, delineated in a clear concise manner, With The Distances, Time, Mode, and Expence of Travelling. By Captain Matthew Jenour, On the Half-Pay of his Majesty's 11th Regiment of Foot, Late of the 102d.
Jenour, Matthew.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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The travels of Mr. Drake Morris, merchant in London. Containing his sufferings and distress in several voyages at sea. Written by himself.
Morris, Drake.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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A New collection of voyages and travels, dedicated to His Majesty, to be completed in twenty pocket volumes, printed on a very superior paper, and a new and elegant type; each volume to be embellished with three beautiful plates, designed and engraved by the first artists. On the 1st of November, 1796, will be published, and to be continued every Saturday fortnight. Price two shillings and sixpence, neatly done up in coloured paper and labelled on the back, volume the first, (ornamented with a portrait of the author, and two beautiful engravings from the most striking events,) of an historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the earliest period to the present time, including, among many others, those of voyages. Columbus, Drake, Cavendish, Ellis, Dampier, Cowley, Woodes rogers, Clipperton, Roggewein, Anson, Don ulloa, Cook, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Portlock, Wilson, Phillip, Bougainville, &c. Travels. Brydone, Carver, Johnson, Swinburne, Bruce, Moore, Addison, Dillon, Irwin, Hanway, Townsend, Vaillant, Savary, Coxe, Pocock, Brissot, Sparrman, Volney, Wraxhall, Anderson, &c. &c. By William Mavor, LL.D.
Date: [1796]- Books
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The foreign travels and dangerous voyages of that renowned English knight Sir John Mandeville. Wherein He gives an Account of Remote Kingdoms, Countries, Rivers, Castles, and Giants of a prodigious Height and Strength. Together with the People called Pigmies, very small and of a low Stature. To which is added, an account of people of odd deformities, some without Heads. - Also dark inchanted Wildernesses, where are fiery Dragons, Griffins, and many wonderful Beasts of Prey, in the Country of Prester-John - All very delightful to the reader.
Mandeville, John, Sir.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The travels of Mr. Drake Morris, merchant in London. Containing his sufferings and distresses in several voyages at sea. Written by himself.
Morris, Drake.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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The voyages and travels of Sir John Mandevile, knight: wherein is set down the way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem: as also to the lands of the Great Caan, and of Prestor John; to India, and divers other countries: together with many and strange marvels therein.
Mandeville, John, Sir.Date: 1722- Books
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A collection of travels, thro' various parts of the world; but more particularly, thro' Tartary, China, Turkey, Persia, and the East-Indies. ... by Mr. Derrick. In two volumes. ...
Derrick, Samuel, 1724-1769.Date: 1762- Books
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A new collection of voyages and travels, into several parts of the world, none of them ever before printed in English. Containing, 1. The description, &c. of the Molucco and Philippine Islands, by L. de Argensola, 2. A new Account of Carolina, by Mr. Lawson. 3. The Travels of P. de Cieza, in Peru. 4. The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia. 5. The Captivity of the Sieur Mouette in Fez and Morocco. 6. The Travels of P. Teixeira from India to the Low-Countries by Land. 7. A voyage to Madagascar by the Sieur Cauche. In two volumes, illustrated with several maps and cuts.
Date: 1711- Books
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Journey from India, towards England, in the year 1797; by a route commonly called over-land, through countries not much frequented, And Many Of Them Hitherto Unknown To Europeans, Particularly Between The Rivers Euphrates And Tigris, Through Curdistan, Diarbek, Armenia, And Natolia, In Asia; And Through Romalia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Transylvania, &c. In Europe. Illustrated by a map and other engravings. By John Jackson, Esq.
Jackson, John, -1807.Date: 1799- Books
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On May 31, 1788, was published, (price six-pence) and will be continued every Saturday, number i. of A general collection of voyages: undertaken either for discovery, conquest, settlement, or the opening of trade, from the commencement of the Portuguese discoveries to the present time.
Date: 1788]- Books
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Travels and voyages, through Europe, Asia, and Africa, for nineteen years. Containing An Account of the Religion, Government, Policy, Laws, Customs, Trade, &c. of the several countries through which the Author travelled: and a Description of Jerusalem, and many other remarkable places mentioned in Sacred and Profane History: Also A Narrative of the tortures he suffered in the Spanish Inquifition, and of his miraculous deliverance from those cruelties. By William Lithgow.
Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
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A new collection of voyages and travels, Never before Publish'd in English. Containing a most Accurate Description of Persia, And other Eastern Nations. With genuine copies of the Instruction given by the English, French and other European powers, to their respective Embassadors at that court; and at those of China, Japan and their Neighbouring empires, no less Useful and Instructive for carrying on the Commerce in those Parts, than entertaining to the curious. To which will be added, a farther Account of Persia, and particularly the Antiquities of Persepolis, as also of the Navigation over the Caspian Sea, from that Empire to Muscovy, with a Description of the Court of the present Czar, and his Dominions; a Journey from Moscow to Archangel: and Voyage from thence to Holland. Illustrated with a great Number of Cuts, of Habits, Towns, Beasts, Birds, Ruins, Prospects at Sea, &c. ...
Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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Travels into several remote nations of the world. in Four Parts, viz. Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput. Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag. Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubdubdrib and Japan. Part. IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. With Cuts and Maps of the Author's Travels.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.Date: MDCCXXVII. [1727]- Books
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A stage-Coach journey to Exeter. Describing the humours on the road, with the characters and adventures of the company. In eight letters to a friend. By Mrs. Manley. To which is added, The force of love: or, the nun's complaint. By the Hon. Colonel Pack.
Manley, Delariviere, d. 1724.Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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An entertaining account of all the countries of the known world describing the different religions, habits, tempers, customs, traffick, and manufactures, of their inhabitants; ... Adorn'd, occasionally, with cuts ... all curiously engraved.
Date: 1752- Books
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Travels of Rabbi Benjamin, son of Jonah, of Tudela: through Europe, Asia, and Africa; from the ancient Kingdom of Navarre, to the frontiers of China. Faithfully translated from the original Hebrew; And enriched with a Dissertation, and Notes, Critical, Historical, and Geographical: In which the true Character of the Author, and Intention of the Work, are impartially considered. By the Rev. B. Gerrans, Lecturer of Saint Catherine Coleman, and Second Master of Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar-School, Saint Olave, Southwark. This Author flourished about the Year 1160 of the Christian Aera, is highly prized by the Jews, and other Admirers of Rabbinical Learning; and has frequently been quoted by the greatest Orientalists that this or any other Nation ever produced: but was never before (to the Editor's Knowledge) wholly translated into English, either by Jew, or Gentile. Entered at Stationers Hall.
Benjamin Ben Jonah, of Tudela.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The unfortunate ship wright, Or Cruel captain being a faithful narrative of the unparallelld sufferings of Robert Barker, late carpenter on-board the thetis snow, of Bristol; on a voyage from thence to the coast of Guinea and Antigua.
Barker, Robert, 1729-Date: 1780- Books
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Moral and divine observations, from remarkable occurrences during the author's travels in a tour through part of this kingdom. To which are prefixed, sundry remarks, on the late publications of Michael Servetus, M.D. and other authors. By James Poulson.
Poulson, James.Date: M,DCC,LXXV. [1775]- Books
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An entertaining account of all the countries of the known world. Describing the different religions, habits, Tempers, Customs, Traffick, and Manufactures. of their inhabitants; the Remarkable Curiosities, amongst Them, either of Art, or Nature; The great Variety of strange Land and Sea-Animals; extraordinary Plants, Minerals, &c. adorn'd, occasionally, with cuts of the Habits of the several People, uncommon Animals, Ceremonies, Buildings, &c. all curiously engraved.
Date: MDCCLII. [1752]-55- Books
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The wonderful travels of Prince Fan-Feredin, in the country of Arcadia. Interspersed with observations, historical, geographical, physical, critical, and moral. Translated from the original French.
Bougeant, G.-H. (Guillaume-Hyacinthe), 1690-1743.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The unfortunate shipwright: Or, Cruel captain. Being a faithful narrative of the unparallel'd sufferings of Robert Barker, late carpenter on board the thetis snow of Bristol, in a voyage to the coast of Guinea and Antigua.
Barker, Robert, 1729-Date: 1758