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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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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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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 life and surprizing adventures of James Wyatt. Containing, I. His entering himself Trumpeter on board the Revenge Privateer, Capt. James Wimble, May 29, 1741. II. An Account of their Cruize; and of his being taken Prisoner by the Spaniards; with his wonderful Deliverance from Death. III. The Manner of his escaping from the Spaniards, with Capt. Robert Winter, and five others. IV. How they were drove by contrary Winds on the Coast of Barbary; where they were taken Prisoners by the Moors, and the Hardships they endur'd among the Infidels. Also an Account of the Religion of the Moors; and of Mahomet, the Founder thereof. - V. The Customs, Ceremonies, Manners and Diversions of the Mahometans: Together with an Account of the Curiosities in Africa; and of the Trade between the Europeans and Africans, on the Gold, Slave; and Ivory Coasts. With the Manner of his Deliverance, and his Arrival safe in England after various Vicissitudes of Fortune. Written by himself. Adorn'd with copper plates.
Wyatt, James, 1707-Date: 1755- Books
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The cambrian directory, or, cursory sketches of the Welsh territories. With a chart, comprehending at one view, the advisable route - best inns - distances - and objects most worthy of attention.
Cliff, of Worcester.Date: 1800- Books
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The American magazine, containing a miscellaneous collection of original and other valuable essays, in prose and verse, ...
Date: [1787]-- Books
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A catalogue of books, for 1793; containing several valuable collections, lately purchased. And a great Number of Curious and Rare Books, Some very Capital Books of Prints, Hindoo and other high finished Drawings, fine Prints, Manuscripts, Atlasses, Surveys of Counties, &c. purchased out of the principal Libraries, sold in 1792. Amongst which are the following: Boydel's and Nicol's Shakespeare, early impres. The Houghton Collection of Prints, ditto Fifty-Three Hindoo, or India Paintings Le Brun's Collection of Prints, fine impres. Weirotter's Works Dessins des Jean Prestel Boyer's D'aguilles Gallery Habits of the Levant, beautifully coloured Hamilton's Etruscan Antiquities, 2 vols. Antiquarian Prints, 2 vols. Hodge's Large Views in India, 12 numbers, very fine impressions Metz's beautiful Imitations of Antient and Modern Drawings, 90 Prints Crispin de Pas's Drawing Book Bavaria Sancta, 4 vols. rare Travels through the Rhaetian Alps, with picturesque views Ostade's Etchings, very fine A fine Collection of Scarce Prints, by Hollar, Della Bella, Callot, L. Clerc, Mark Antony, Goltzius, and other old engravers, in port folio, with leaves, and very eleg. bound in morocco A Port folio, with scarce English Portraits, by Smith, Vandyck, Becket, Cooper, &c. Archaeologia by the Society of Antiquarians, 9 vols. 4 to. Tempest's Cries of London, old impressions A Large Collection of Books of Emblems, curious and rare Surveys of Counties, Chapman's, Dury and Andrews, Rocque's, Jeffery's, Armstrong's, &c. of Nottinghamshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Bedford, Buckingham, Huntingdon, Dorsetshire, Durham, Oxford, &c. &c. Rennell's large Bengal Atlas Merian's Surinam Insects, original edition, beautifully coloured Catesby's Carolina, 2 vols. ditto Lewin's Birds, 5 vols. all drawings on vellum paper, and beautifully coloured Hill's Herbal, the largest paper, coloured Vandermeuiin's Large and Capital Prints of the Battles of Lewis XIV. Pennant's London, first edit. l. p. interleaved in 4 vols. with a great number of additional Prints and Drawings Sleazer's Theatrum Scotiae, fine impression Carter's Antiquities, 25 numbers Sandrart's Academia Ars Pictoria Lavater's Physiognomy, 25 numbers, first impressions Hearne and Byrne's Antiquities Delices de la Grande Bretagne Description des Arts et Metiers, 9 vols. Bleau's Atlas, 11 vols. illuminated Chambers's Encyclopedia, by Rees, 4 vols. in Russia Ashmole's Order of the Garter Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656 - Summons to Parliament, original edit. bound in russia - Monasticon Anglicanum, Latin, 2 vols. 1682, &c. Grafton's Chronicle, b. l. 1568 Dart's Antiquities of Westminster and Canterbury, 3 vols. Bruce, Cook, Hawkesworth, Phillips, White, Parkinson, Phipps, &c. Voyages Worsley's Hist. of the Isle of Wight Vicar's Parliamentary Chronicle, 4 parts, compleat England's Worthies, from 1642, to 1647, with fine portraits, by Hollar, &c. very rare Some Curious and Valuable Manuscripts, and printed Missals on vellum And many other equally Scarce and Valuable. The books in general are in very good Condition, many in elegant Bindings, and are now on sale exceeding Cheap, (for Ready Mony only), and will continue on Sale by Henry Chapman, Bookseller, No. 65, Chandois Street, Covent Garden. Catalogues (price 6d, allowed to Purchasers), may be had of the following Booksellers, Mr. Collins, Exchange Alley, Cornhill, Mr. J. Walker, Paternoster-Row, Mr. Stockdale, Piccadilly, and at the Place of Sale.
Chapman, Henry, active 1776-1796.Date: 1793]- Books
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Baron Munchausen's narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia. Humbly dedicated and recommended to country gentlemen; and, if they please, to be repeated as their own, after a hunt at horse races, in watering-places, and other such polite assemblies; round the bottle and fire-side.
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- 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: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The New-York magazine; or, Literary repository: for ...
Date: <1790-- Books
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Il Mercurio Italico: o sia, Ragguaglio generale intorno alla letteratura, bello arti, utili scoperte, ec. di tutta l'Italia. =The Italian mercury: or, A general account concerning the literature, fine arts, useful discoveries, &c. of all Italy.
Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789-- Books
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Travels into Turkey: containing the most accurate account of the Turks, and neighbouring nations, Their Manners, Customs, Religion, Superstition, Policy, Riches, Coins, &c. The whole being a series of remarkable observations and events, interspers'd with great variety of entertaining incidents, never before printed. Translated from the original latin of the learned A. G. Busbequius. With Memoirs of the Life of the Illustitious Author.
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Journals
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Early music history
Date: 1981-- Books
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The melancholy narrative of the distressful voyage and miraculous deliverance of Captain David Harrison, of the sloop, Peggy, of New York, on his voyage from Fyal, one of the western islands, to New-York, who Having lost all his Sails in a long Series of hard Weather, and entirely exhausted his Provisions, lived two and forty Days without receiving the least Food, till he was happily relieved by the Humanity of Capt. Evers of the Susanna, in the Virginia Trade. - In this Narrative the Expedients which Capt. Harrison and his Men made Use of for their Subsistence are particularly set forth, who twice cast Lots for their Lives, and were to have killed the second Man on the very Morning they were providentially taken up. - The Whole being authenticated in the strongest Manner, by repeated Depositions, Before the Right Hon. George Nelson, Esq. Lord-Mayor of the City of London, and Mr. Robert Shank, Notary Public. Written by himself.
Harrison, David, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Containing the Genealogy of Our Glorious Redeemer, His Nativity, Preservation, Circumcision, Baptism, Fasting, Temptation, Ministry, Doctrine, Calling the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacrament, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension. Together With The Lives and Sufferings of his Holy Apostles, Evangelists, And other Primitive Martyrs, Who have laid down their Lives in the glorious Cause of Christianity, the Foundation on which all our Hopes of Eternal Happiness are fixed. To which is added, a full defence of Christianity Against all the Objections of Atheists, ... who have endeavoured to place Mankind on a Level with the Beasts that perish. The Whole being calculated To promote the Knowledge of our Holy Religion, a firm Faith in the Merits of our Blessed Redeemer, and the Practice of every Christian Virtue. By the Reverend John Fleetwood, D. D. Author of the Christian's Dictionary, And of the History of the Holy Bible, Published by the King's Authority.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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An extract of the Rev. Mr. John Wesley's journal from his embarking for Georgia. To his Return to London.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Containing the genealogy of our glorious redeemer, His Nativity, Preservation, Circumcision, Baptism, Fasting, Temptation, Ministry, Doctrine, Calling the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Travels, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacrament, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension. Together With The Lives and Sufferings Of His Holy Apostles, Evangelists, And other Primitive Martyrs, Who have laid down their Lives in the glorious Cause of Christianity, the Foundation on which all our Hopes of Eternal Happiness are fixed. To which is added, a full defence of Christianity Against all the Objections of Atheists, Deists, and Infidels, who have endeavoured to place Mankind on a Level with the Beasts that perish. The whole being calculated to promote The Knowledge Of Our Holy Religion, A Firm Faith In The Merits Of Our Blessed Redeemer, And The Practice Of Every Christian Virtue. By the Reverend John Fleetwood, D. D. Author of the Christian's Dictionary, And of the History of the Holy Bible. Published by the King's Authority,
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXXV [1775]- Books
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The adventures of the six princesses of Babylon, in their travels to the temple of virtue: an allegory. Dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary.
Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The adventures of the six princesses of Babylon, in their travels to the temple of virtue: an allegory. Dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary.
Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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County curiosities, Or, a New Description of Gloucestershire. Containing I. A particular survey of the county, both geographical and historical. II. An Ample and Accurate Account of all the Boroughs, Market Towns, Villages, Rivers, Royal - Places Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats. III. The Fairs, Trade, Commerce, and Product of the Same. IV Of the Rarities both Natural and Artificial. V. Of the eminent persons born, or who have resided in them, and of the extraordinary events that have happened there.
Date: 1757- Books
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An entire new magazine. On Friday, February 1, 1793, will be Published, (price only Sixpence) Elegantly Printed on a Superfine Paper, and Embellished with a most Beautiful Frontispiece, finely Engraved by a Capital Artist, The Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle of extraordinary productions and events In Nature and Art: Consisting Entirely of Matters which come under the Denominations of Miraculous! Queer! Odd! Strange! Supernatural! Whimsical! Absurd! Out of the way! and Unaccountable! Including Many surprising Escapes from Death and Dangers, strange Discoveries of long-concealed Murders, and a vast Variety of other Matters equally curious and surprizing. The Whole collected from the Writings of the most approved Historians, Travellers, Philosophers, and Physicians, of all Ages and Countries. No. 1, for January, 1793. (to be continued Monthly.) Containing (among a great Variety of other Particulars equally marvellous and curious) the following most extraordinary Articles. A wonderful Deliverance-Instances of Persons who have changed their Sex-The Bloody Bell, an extraordinary Execution-The Gammon of Bacon-The Birth of a Devil-The English Irishman-The Female Sleep Walker-The Drumming Well-A Woman with Child 27 Years-A Camp set on Fire hy Sparrows-A surprising Discovery of Murder-The Original of Peeping Tom of Coventry-Surprizing Examples of Instinct in Animals-A monstrous Serpent-The Sea punished by Command of Xerxes, the Persian King-Remarkable Anecdote relating to Death-The Bearded Woman-The Stone Eater-An Unaccountable Transformation of a Cheshire Cheese-The Grateful Lion-The Law of Cuckoldom in Scotland-Extracts from Baron Munchausea's Romantic Travels-Whimsical Anecdote of a Drunken Man-A most Extraordinary Event-A Lady burnt to Ashes by a Fire kindled in her own Body. - &c. &c. &c. With many other astonishing Relations too numerous to be mentioned in this Hand-Bill.
Date: 1793- 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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New copper-plate magazine. Published by J. Walker, no.44, Paternoster-Row. This day is published, number C. To be continued monthly, price one shilling and sixpence only, of the Copper-Plate Magazine; or, Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Engravings. Intended to Comprise. All the most interesting, sublime, and beautiful Views of Principal Cities, Sea-Ports, Forests, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Royal Palaces, Seats of Nobility and Gentry, Curious Remains of Antiquity, Public Edifices, Parks, Gardens, &c. &c. in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Each Number contains Two exquisite Prints, engraved in a very superior Style, from Original Paintings and Drawings by the first Masters. with Letter-Press Descriptions. The Whole is printed in Quarto; and the Prints are all taken off after the Manner of Proofs, on Superfine Paper. London: Printed for J. Walker, No. 16, Rosoman's Street, Clerkenwell; and sold by J. Walker, No. 44, Paternoster Row; W. Clarke, New Bond Street; T. Knott, No. 47, Lombard Street; and all other Booksellers, Printsellers, Stationers, and Newsmen, in Great Britain and Ireland. *-* Correspondents are requested to address their favours, post paid, to Mr. Walker, Engraver, No. 16, Rosoman's Street. N. B. A few selected First Impressions, hot-pressed, may be had in Boards, price 71. 10s. the One Hundred Numbers already published. - Those Gentlemen who have Proofs of the former Part of the Work, are recommended to perfect them soon, as the Price will be raised.
Date: [1792?]- Books
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The american crisis, and a letter to Sir Guy Carleton, on the murder of Captain Huddy, and the intended retaliation on Captain Asgill, of the Guards. By Thomas Paine, author Of Common sense - Rights of man-age of reason - and The decline and fall of the English system of finance.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.Date: [1796?]