94 results filtered with: England - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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Hall's new Margate and Ramsgate guide: Containing a description of the libraries, theatre, assemblies, new buildings, accommodations, mode of bathing, lists of the coaches, diligences, hoys, &c. With the time of their going out and coming in, and a general account of the Isle of Thanet; to which is prefixed, a map of the island. Taken from an actual survey.
Hall, Joseph, active 1766-1799.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England: or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper-plate cuts, neatly engraved. Volume the second.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Angliæ notitia: or the present state of England: With Divers remarks upon The Ancient State thereof. By Edw. Chamberlayne, Doctor of Laws. In Three Parts.
Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.Date: 1702- Books
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J. Dickinson's minutes, taken in a tour from London to Brighton, August, 1793.
Dickinson, J., active 1793.Date: 1793]- Books
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A comparative sketch of England and Italy, with disquisitions on national advantages, in two volumes. ...
Date: [1793]- 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- Books
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Letters written from Leverpoole, Chester, Corke, the lake of Killarney, Dublin, Tunbridge-Wells, and Bath. Addressed to several Persons of Distinction, and describing every Thing remarkable to be found in those Places, as well as many accidental Occurrences the Author met with in his journies thither. By the late Samuel Derrick, Esq; Master of the Ceremonies at Bath. The second edition. In two volumes. ...
Derrick, Samuel, 1724-1769.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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The beauties of England: or, a comprehensive view of the public structures, the seats of the nobility and gentry, the two universities, the cities, market towns, antiquities and curiosities, natural and artificial, for which this island is remarkable. Including, a circumstantial account of the Curiosities of London and Westminster. Divided into the respective counties, and intended as a travelling pocket companion, To point out whatever merits the Attention of the English Traveller, or the Observation of the Foreigner.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- 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 journal of a tour to Scarborough, in the Summer of 1798.
Date: 1798- Books
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A tour to London: or, new observations on England, and its inhabitants. By M. Grosley, F. R. S. Member of the Royal Academies of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent, LL. D. and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In three volumes. ...
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718-1785.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.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.Date: [1800]- Books
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The Bath and Bristol guide: or, the tradesman's and traveller's pocket-companion. Containing, I. A description of the city of Bath; ... II. Of the antiquity of Bath; ... III. Rules relating to Bath; ... IV. A table of the posts going out, and arriving at Bath; ... And other curious particulars.
Date: [1765?]- Books
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Luton Hoo, the seat of the Earl of Bute. (from the General evening post, Nov.18, 1783.)
Date: 1785]- Books
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Additions to Luton.
Date: 1784]- Books
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Four topographical letters, Written in July 1755, Upon a Journey thro' Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, &c. From a gentleman of London, to his brother and sister in Town: giving a Description Of the Country thro' which he pass'd; with observations On every Thing that occurred to him, either Curious or Remarkable.
Patching, Resta, -1760.Date: 1757- Books
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A journey through England. In familiar letters. From a gentleman here, to his friend abroad.
Macky, John, -1726.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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The travels of Tom Thumb over England and Wales; containing descriptions of whatever is most remarkable in the several counties. ... Written by himself; and adorned with a suitable map.
Thumb, Tom.Date: 1746- 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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A tour to the west of England, in 1788. By the Rev. S. Shaw, M. A. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge.
Shaw, Stebbing, 1762-1802.Date: 1789- Books
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Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd; being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all [th]e direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: Wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all [th]e cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &. scituate on or near the roads, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles. And to render this-work universally usefull & agreeable, (beyond any of it's kind) are added in a clear & most compendious method. 1. A full & particular description & account of all the cities, borough-towns, towns-corporate &c. their arms, antiquity, charters, privileges, trade, rarities &c. with suitable remarks on all places of note drawn from the best historians and antiquaries. By Ino. Owen of the Midd: Temple Gent. 2. The arms of the peers of this realm who derive their titles from places lying on or near the roads 3. The arms of all [th]e bishopricks & deanaries, their foundation, extent, yearly-value, number of parishes &c. 4. The arms, & a succinct account of both universities & their respective colleges, their foundations fellowships &c Lastly particular & correct maps-of all [th]e counties of South Britain; with a summary description of each county, its circumference, number of acres, borô & market towns & parishes, air, soil, com̄odities, manufactures & what each pays in [th]e ... aid &c. The whole for its compendious variety & exactness, preferable to all other books of roads hitherto published or proposed; and calculated not only for the direction of the traveller (as they are) but the general use of the gentleman and tradesman By Eman: Bowen engraver.
Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767.Date: 1759- Books
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A journey through England. In familiar letters from a gentleman here, to his friend abroad. Vol. II.
Macky, John, -1726.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Books
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A survey of the counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, West Riding of Yorkshire, and the northern part of Staffordshire, Describing the rivers, lakes, soil, manure, climate, productions, minerals, property, and civil and ecclesiastical divisions; with a general account of the river and canal navigations within those districts.
Aikin, John, 1747-1822.Date: 1797- Books
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A picture of England: containing a description of the laws, customs, and manners of England. ... By M. D'Archenholz, ... Translated from the French,
Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von, 1743-1812.Date: 1791- Books
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The new description and state of England, containing the mapps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, Newly Design'd, Exactly Drawn and Engraven by the Best Artists. The several Counties described, the Account of their Ancient and Modern Names, Extent, Soil, Former and Present Inhabitants, their Number, Rarities, Market-Towns, and Days whereon the Markets are kept, Hundreds, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Bridges, Minerals, Commodities, Number of Acres, what Proportion each County pays to the Land-Tax, Archbishopricks, 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. To which is added, a new and exact list of the House of Peers and Commons, and of the Lord-Lieutenants of each County, of the Army, Navy, Officers and Offices, &c. belonging to this kingdom.
Morden, Robert, -1703.Date: 1701