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76.
A new and authentic system of universal geography, antient and modern All the late important discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated navigator of various nations, in the different hemispheres, from the celebrated Columbus, the first discoverer of America, to the death of our no less celebrated contryman Captain Cook, &c. and containing a genuine history and description whole world, as consisting of empires, kingdoms, states, republics, provinces, continents, Islands, oceans, &c. with the various countries, cities, towns, promotories, capes, bays, peninsulas, isthmusses, gulphs, rivers, harbours, lakes, mountains, volcanos, deserts, &c. Europe Asia, Africa, and America: together with their respective situations, extent, latitude, longitude, boundaries, climate, soil, natural and artificial curiosities, mines, metals, minerals, trees, shrubs, fruits, flowers, herbs, and vegetable productions. With an account of the religion, laws, customs, manners, genius, habits amusements, and ceremonies of the respective inhabitants: their arts, sciences, manufactures, trade, commerce, military and civil governments, &c. also exact descriptions of the various kinds of beasts, birds, fishes, amphibious creatures, reptiles, infects, &c. together with a complete history of every empire, kingdom, and state. Also an account of the most remarkable battles, sieges, sea-fights, and various revolutions that have taken place in different parts of the world. The whole forming an authentic and entertaining account every thing worthy of notice throughout the whole face of nature, both by land and water. In which is introduced, to illustrate the work, a considerable number of the most accurate whole sheet maps, forming a complete atlas. To which is added a complete guide to geography, astronomy the use of the globes, maps, &c. with an account of the rise, progress, and present state, of navigation, throughout the known world. Likewise containing every important, interesting, and valuable discovery throughout the whole of Captain Cook's voyages round the world. Together with those of the modern circumnavigators, particularly byron, carteret, wallis, clerke, gore, King, forrest, and Wilson. Also containing a particular account of the Pelew Islands. And the latest accounts of the English colony of botany bay: with a particular description of Port Jackson, Norfolk Island, &c. where the convicts are now settled. The whole forming a complete collection of voyages and travels. By the Rev. Thomas Bankes, vicar of dixton, in monmouthshire and author of the christian's family Bible. Edward Warren Blake, Esq. Alexander Cook, Esq. and Thomas Lloyd. Embellished with near two hundred beautiful engravings, consisting, of views, antiquities, customs, ceremonies, &c. together with whole sheet maps, plans, charts, &c. executed in a much superior stile than any work of the like kind that has ever appeared in this kingdom
Author
Bankes, Thomas, 1744-
Published
London : Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row, and sold by the booksellers of Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Canterbury, Cambridge, Coventry, Chester, Derby, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Hull, Ipswich, Leeds, Liverpool, Leicester, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Northampton, Oxford, Reading, Salisbury, Sherborn, Shefield, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Winchester, York: and by all other booksellers in England, Scotland, and Ireland, [1788]
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77.
Gottlieb Heinrich Stuck's ... Verzeichnis von aeltern und neuern Land- und Reisebeschreibungen : ein Versuch eines Hauptstücks der geographischen Litteratur : mit einem vollstaendigen Realregister, und einer Vorrede von M. Iohann Ernst Fabri ..
Author
Stuck, Gottlieb Heinrich, 1716-1787
Published
Halle : In Iohann Christian Hendels Verl[ag]e, 1784.
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78.
Historische beschryving der reizen, of, Nieuwe en volkoome verzameling van de aller-waardigste en zeldsaamste zee- en landtogten, ter ontdekkinge en naspeuringe gedaan, welke tot heeden, in eenige taale, van alle bekende volkeren uitgegeeven zyn vervattende niet alleen, op 't klaarste en 't beknoptste, de aanmerkenswaardigste ontmoetingen en gevallen : der ontdekkeren en reizigers, zo wel als de grendvestiging' der Europeren in 't Ooste en 't Weste, met de stigtinge der befaamdste handeldryvende maatschappyen, maar inzonderheid, de nutste en verhevenste zaaken, van alle de tot nu ontdekte gewesten, in Europa, Azia, Afrika en Amerika, ten aanzien van derzelver onderscheide en stipte gelegenheid, uitgestrektheid, landpaalen, verdeelinge, monarchyen, vorstendommen en volkstaaten, luchtstreeken, grond, voorbrengselen, meiren, rivieren, zéen, bergen, mynen, voornaamste stéden en piaatsien, havens, réen, gebouwen, enz. : met de trapsgewyze veranderingen, daarin, van tyd tot tyd voorgevallen, benevens de zeden en gewoontens van derzelver onderscheide bewgonderen, deezer godtsdienst, regeeringe, kunsten en weetenschappen, koophandel en handwerken : dienende, ter vorminge van een volslagen gestél van nieuwe aardryskbeschryvinge, en historië : vertoonende den juisten hedendaaghsen staat van alle volkeren ..
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'sGravenhage [The Hauge, Netherlands] : P. de Hondt, 1747-1767.
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79.
The curious modern traveller Being some late and particular observations on the greatest curiosities and antiquities in most parts of the world. Especially in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Turkey, [blank] and, The Holy-Land. Giving a faithful account of whatever is remarkable both in the works of art and nature w...th the observation of the most curious. With a geographical and historical account of each different nation, their religion, habits, customs and ceremonies, &c. Also, an account of several wonderful animals, serpents, birds, &c. interspers'd with many entertaining stories of each particular. Embellish'd with copper plate cuts. By R.K. Esq;
Author
R. K.
Published
London : Printed by A. M'Culloh, for J. Warelin, and W. Norris, M,DCCXLV. [1745]
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80.
The curious traveller being a choice collection of very remarkable histories, voyages, travels, &c. : digested into familiar letters and conversation
Published
London : Printed for J. Rowland, 1742.
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81.
A trip to Jamaica with a true character of the people and island. By the author of Sot's paradise
Author
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731
Published
Londod [sic]: printed and sold by J. How, in the Ram-Head-Inn-Yard, in Fanchurch-Street, 1700
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82.
Iovrnal des voyages de Monsievr de Monconys ... : où les sçauants trouueront vn nombre infini de nouueautez ... / publié par le sieur de Liergves son fils
Author
Monconys, Balthasar de, 1611-1665
Published
Lyon : Horace Boissat & George Remevs, 1665-1666.
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BEINECKE (Non-Circulating) >> 1990 247
Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Edea Ox3 663
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83.
A true description of Jamaica with the fertility, commodities, and healthfulness of the place. As also the towns, havens, creeks, promontories, and the circuit of the whole island
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London : printed by J.M., 1657.
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84.
Methodus apodemica, seu, Peregrinandi, perlustrandique regiones, urbes & arces ratio
Author
Rantzau, Henrik, 1526-1598
Published
Lipsiae : Typis Abrahami Lambergi, 1588.
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SML, Microform (Non-Circulating) >> Fiche B5524
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85.
Le "meraviglie del mondo" nel viaggio, ad inizio Quattrocento, di quattro cavalieri
Author
Salimbeni, Jacopo, -approximately 1427
Published
Alessandria : Edizioni dell'Orso, [2023]
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PQ4556.S18 L53 2023 (LC)
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86.
An intrepid Scot : William Lithgow of Lanark's travels in the Ottoman lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-21
Author
Bosworth, Clifford Edmund
Published
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2006.
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Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> G460 .B73X 2006 (LC)
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87.
An intrepid Scot : William Lithgow of Lanark's travels in the Ottoman lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-21
Author
Bosworth, Clifford Edmund
Published
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2006.
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88.
Evliya Çelebi seyahatnamesi
Author
Evliya Çelebi, 1611?-1682?
Published
<Cambridge, Mass.> : Harvard Üniversitesi Basımevi, 1989-
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Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> G460 E93 1989 (LC)+ Oversize
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89.
Sir John Mandevilles Reisebeschreibung : nach d. Stuttgarter Papierhandschrift Cod. HB V 86
Author
Mandeville, John, Sir
Published
Berlin : Akademie-Verlag, 1974.
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90.
Mandeville's travels texts and translations. Vol. 2
Published
London : Hakluyt Society, 1953.
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91.
Mandeville's travels texts and translations. Volume 1
Published
London : Ashgate, 1953.
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92.
al-Ṣaḥīḥ min akhbār al-biḥār wa-ʻajāʼibihā
Title
‏الصحيح من أخبار البحار وعجائبها /‏‎‏
Author
Sīrāfī, Mūsá ibn Rabāḥ, 10th cent
سيرافي، موسى بن رباح، ق. 10
Published
Dimashq : Dār Iqraʼ lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ, 2006.
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> G93 S56 2006
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93.
Eldad ha-Dani : sipuraṿ ve-hilkhotav ..
Title
אלדד הדני
Author
Eldad, ha-Dani, 9th cent
אלדד הדני
Published
Pressburg : Bi-defus Avraham Alḳʼalai, 651, [1891]
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Library Shelving Facility (LSF) >> Bg20n 480ek
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94.
The voyages and works of John Davis the Navigator with the map of the world, A.D. 1600, called by Shakspere [sic] "'he new map, with the augmentation of the Indies'
Author
Davis, John, 1550?-1605
Published
Farnham [England] : Ashgate, 2010.
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95.
The travels of Mr. Drake Morris, merchant in London. Containing his sufferings and distress in several voyages at sea. Written by himself
Author
Morris, Drake
Published
London : Printed for the author: and sold by R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster Row, M.DCC.LV. [1755]
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96.
A true relation of a most horrid conspiracy and running away with the ship Adventure having on board forty thousand pieces of eight, and other goods to a great value. Together with the cruel and barbarous leaving and turning ashore upon the island Naias, in the East-Indies, the Captain, and three merchants which were passengers, and sixteen honest and able seamen, eight whereof miserably perished by hunger and hardship, and but four of the remainder yet come to England. Together with some short account of what passed at the trial and condemnation of those who committed that fact
Published
[[London] : Printed for Sam. Crouch, at the corner of Popes-Head Ally, in Cornhill, 1700]
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97.
Relations de divers voyages curieux qui n'ont point esté publiées, et qu'on a traduit ou tiré des originaux des voyageurs françois, espagnols, allemands, portugais, anglois, hollandois, persans, arabes & autres orientaux
Author
Thévenot, Melchisédec, 1620-1692
Published
A Paris : T. Moette, 1696.
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98.
North-vvest Fox, or, Fox from the North-west passage Beginning vvith King Arthur, Malga, Octhur, the two Zeni's of Iseland, Estotiland, and Dorgia; following with briefe abstracts of the voyages of Cabot, Frobisher, Davis, Waymouth, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge ... Mr. Iames Hall's three voyages to Groynland, with a topographicall description of the countries, the salvages lives and treacheries, how our men have beene slayne by them there, with the commodities of all those parts ... demonstrated in a polar card, wherein are all the maines, seas, and ilands, herein mentioned. With the author his owne voyage, being the XVIth. with the opinions and collections of the most famous mathematicians, and cosmographers ... By Captaine Luke Foxe of Kingstone vpon Hull, capt. and pylot for the voyage, in his Majesties Pinnace the Charles. Printed by his Majesties command
Author
Foxe, Luke, 1586-1635
Published
London : Printed by B. Alsop and Tho. Favvcet, dwelling in Grubstreet [for M. Sparke], 1635.
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99.
The totall discourse, of the rare aduentures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares trauayles from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surueighing of forty eight kingdomes ancient and moderne; twenty one rei-publickes, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred ilands. The particular names whereof, are described in each argument of the ten diuisions of this history: and it also diuided in three bookes; two whereof, neuer heretofore published. Wherein is contayned, an exact relation, of the lawes, religion, policies, and gouernment of all their princes, potentates, and people. Together with the grieuous tortures he suffered, by the inquisition of Malaga in Spaine, his miraculous discouery and deliuery thence: and of his last and late returne from the northerne iles. By William Lithgovv
Author
Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?
Published
Imprinted at London : by Nicholas Okes, 1632.
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100.
Periplógrafos griegos
Published
[Zaragoza] : Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2008-
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> G87.A1 P47 2008 (LC)
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