Title |
Author |
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Year |
EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL LITERATURE |
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Memoirs Relative to Egypt, written in that country during the campaigns of General Bonaparte, in the years 1798 and 1799, by the learned and scientific men who accompanied the French expedition |
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T. Gillet, London |
1800 |
Travels to discover the source of the Nile in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773 |
James Bruce |
James Ballantyne, Edinburgh |
1804, 2nd ed. |
The Mariner's Chronicle, being a collection of the most interesting narratives of shipwrecks, fires, famines, and other calamities incident to a life of maritime enterprise; with authentic particulars of the extraordinary adventures and sufferings of the crews, their reception and treatment on distant shores; the country, customs, and manners of the inhabitants: including an account of the deliverance of the survivors. (3 vols) |
Archibald Duncan |
James Cundee, London |
1805 |
A Voyage around the World in the years 1740, 1, 2, 3, 4, by George Anson, Esq., Late Lord Anson, Commander in Chief of a squadron of his Majesty's ships sent upon an expedition to the South Seas, compiled from his papers and materials by Richard Walter M.A., chaplain of the ship Centurion, in that expedition.[This copy formerly owned by Robert (Roberto) Winthrop Simpson ( 1799 - 1877) a British midshipman who was in the 'cortege' of Lord Cochrane, one of the Royal Navy's greatest fighting captains, when he travelled to Chile in 1818 in order to help the Chileans to gain independence. Highly likely this book was with Simpson on that voyage. Genuine salt-water stains..] |
R. Walter |
Ogle, Ogle, Ogle and Hamilton, London |
1812 |
The World Displayed, or, a Collection of Voyages and Travels. Selected from the Writers of All Nations. |
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J. Christie, Dublin |
1815 |
An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the month of August, 1815. With an account of the sufferings of her surviving officers and crew, who were enslaved by the wandering Arabs on the great African desart, or Zahahrah; and observations historical, geographical, &c. made during the travels of the author, while a slave to the Arabs, and in the empire of Morocco. |
James Riley |
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c. 1817 |
Voyage en Angleterre, pendant les années 1810 et 1811; avec des observations sur l'état politique et moral, les arts et la littérature de ce pays, et sur les moeurs et les usages de ses habitans [signed by the author, and by Benjamin Leigh Smith the well-known Unitarian radical (with the bookplate of the latter)].
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L. Simond |
Treuttel et Würtz, Paris |
1817 |
A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels, from the discovery of America to the present time. Arranged in systematic order, geographical and chronological. The whole exhibiting a faithful and lively delineation of the world. |
Ed. R.P. Forster |
Mackenzie and Dent, Newcastle |
1818 |
Narratives of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa
in the years 1822, 1823 and 1824, by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton and the late Doctor Oudney. Extending across the great desert to the tenth degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the capital of the Felatah Empire. (2 vols) |
Denham, Clapperton and Oudney |
John Murray, London |
1828, 3rd ed. |
Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger; with a narrative of a voyage down that river to its termination. (3 vols) |
Richard and John Lander |
John Murray, London |
1832 |
Topography of Thebes, and General View of Egypt. Being a short account
of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the
Second Cataract and Wadee Samneh, with the Fyoom, oases, and Eastern Desert, from Sooez to Berenice; with remarks on the manners and customs of the ancient
Egyptians and the productions of the country &c. &c. |
I.G. Wilkinson |
John Murray, London |
1835 |
Travels and Researches of Alexander von Humboldt, being a
condensed narrative of his journeys in the equinoctial regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia; together with analyses of his more important investigations.
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W. MacGillivray |
Oliver & Boyd,Edinburgh |
1836, 3rd ed. |
Curiosities of Modern Travel |
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David Bogue, London |
1845 |
Lands, Classical and Sacred |
Lord Nugent |
Charles Knight & Co., London |
1846 |
Humboldt's Travels and Discoveries in South America |
- |
John W. Parker |
1846, 2nd ed. |
Adventures in the Libyan Desert and the Oäsis of Jupiter Ammon |
Bayle St. John |
John Murray, London |
1849 |
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petraea and the Holy Land |
J.L. Stephens |
Milner and Sowerby, London |
c. 1850 |
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean |
David Livingstone |
John Murray, London |
1857 1st ed. |
Letters from High Latitudes, being some account of a voyage in the schooner yacht "Foam", 85 O.M. to Iceland, Jan Mayen, & Spitzbergen in 1856 |
Lord Dufferin |
John Murray, London |
1857 |
Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa - with manners
and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, the crocodile,
leopard, elephant, hippotamus, and other animals.
| Paul B. Du Chaillu |
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1861 |
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile |
John Hanning Speke |
Blackwood & Sons |
1863 |
Allocution prononcée par M. Le Capitaine Speke |
John Hanning Speke |
Société de Geographie |
1864 |
Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and of the
discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864 |
David and Charles Livingstone |
John Murray, London |
1865 1st ed. |
My Wanderings. Being Travels in the East in 1846-1847, 1850-1851, 1852-1853 |
John Gadsby |
A. Gadsby |
1866 |
The Giant Cities of Bashan and Syria's Holy Places |
J.L. Porter |
T. Nelson & Sons, London |
1869 |
The Natural History of Man, being an account of the manners and customs of the uncivilized races of men (2 vols) |
J.G. Wood |
George Routledge and sons, London |
1870 |
The Lands of Cazembe |
Richard F. Burton, B.A. Beadle and C.T. Beake |
John Murray, London |
1873, 1st ed. |
The Land of the Pharoahs. Egypt and Sinai : illustrated by Pen and Pencil |
Samuel Manning |
Religious Tract Society |
c. 1875 |
Across Africa (2 vols) |
Verney Lovett Cameron |
Daldy, Isbister & Co, London
| 1877, 1st ed. |
Japan, Historical and Descriptive |
C.H. Eden |
Marcus Ward & Co, London |
1877, 1st ed. |
Life and Findings of Dr. Livingstone, the Explorer, the Man of Peace
the Trader, the Pioneer and the Missionary |
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Dean & Son, London |
1878 |
Far off, or, Asia Described, with anecdotes and numerous illustrations |
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Hatchards |
1879 |
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the
Hamran Arabs |
Samuel W. Baker |
Macmillan and Co. |
1880 |
The Life of David Livingstone, the Great Missionary Explorer.
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J.S. Robertson |
Walter Scott Ltd., London |
1882? |
The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land, from my private journal |
Isabel Burton |
Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., London |
1884 |
The Wonders and Beauties of Creation, portrayed by Buffon, Chateaubriand, Humboldt, Livingstone, Ruskin, Dufferin, Tennent, etc., illustrated by many engravings on wood |
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Gall & Inglis |
c. 1884 |
Work and Adventure in New Guinea 1877 to 1885 |
James Chalmers and W. Wyatt Gill |
The Religious Tract Society |
1885 |
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Maundeville |
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Cassell |
1886 |
The Battle of Tofrek [The personal copy of explorer
Henry M. Stanley, with inscribed dedication to him by the author] |
William Galloway |
London |
1887, 1st ed. |
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the
Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" Around the World
|
Charles Darwin |
Ward Lock & Co. |
1889, 3rd ed. |
A Narrative on Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account
of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon valley |
Alfred Russel Wallace |
Ward Lock & Co. |
1889 |
In Darkest Africa, or the quest, rescue and retreat of Emin,
Governor of Equatoria (6 vols)
| Henry M. Stanley |
Sampson Low, Marson &c, London |
1890 1st ed. (subscription ed.) |
Through the Dark Continent, or, the Sources of the Nile Around the
Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the
Atlantic Ocean
| Henry M. Stanley |
Sampson Low, Marson, Searle & Rivington, London |
1890 |
Stanley and Africa |
Eva Hope |
Walter Scott |
1890 |
Pictorial Africa, its Heroes, Missionaries and Martyrs: stirring narratives of their peril, adventures, and achievements, together with a full and descriptive account of the peoples, deserts, forests, rivers, lakes and mountains of the "dark continent" |
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James Sangster & Co., London |
c. 1890 |
James Calvert, or, from Dark to Dawn in Fiji |
R. Vernon |
S.W. Partridge & Co., London |
c. 1890 |
Coomassie and Magdala. The story of two British campaigns in Africa |
Henry M. Stanley |
Sampson Low, Marston & Co., London |
1891 |
Twelve Months in Peru |
E.B. Clark |
T. Fisher Unwin, London |
1891 |
The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources |
Samuel W. Baker |
Macmillan and Co., London |
1892 |
John North in Mexico - a Story of the Silver City |
Fred A. Ober |
D. Lothrop, Boston |
1892 |
The Real Japan. Studies of Contemporary Japanese Manners,
Morals, Administration, and Politics |
Henry Morgan |
Fisher & Unwin, London |
1893 |
The Story of John G. Paton, or, Thirty Years among South Sea Cannibals |
Ed. James Paton |
Hodder and Stoughton, London |
1894, 13th ed. |
The Life and Travels of Mungo Park ; with a supplementary chapter detailing the results of recent discovery in Africa
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W.P.Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, Edinburgh |
c. 1895? |
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Medinah and Meccah |
Richard F. Burton |
George Bell & Sons |
1898 |
Farthest North, being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram 1893-1896 and the fifteen month sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram. (2 vols) |
Fridtjof Nansen |
George Newnes, London |
1898 |
Tropical Africa |
Henry Drummond |
Hodder & Stoughton |
1898, 3rd ed. |
The Benin Massacre |
Capt. Alan Boisragon |
Methuen & Co., London |
1898, 2nd ed. |
Campbell's Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico |
Reau Campbell |
Sonora News Company, City of Mexico |
1899 |
Pictures and Scenes from Far Off Lands. The World at home |
Mary and Elizabeth Kirby |
J. Nelson |
1899 |
Wanderings in Three Continents |
Richard F. Burton |
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York |
1901 |
History of our Wild West, and stories of our pioneer life from
experiences of Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Kit Carson, David Crockett,
Sam Houston, Generals Crook, Miles and Custer, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Great
Indian Chiefs, and other famous frontiersmen and Indian fighters. A complete
story of the settlement of the Western frontier, relating the exciting experiences, daring deeds and marvelous achievements of men made famous by their heroic deeds. Replete with stories of exciting hunts, Indian fights and adventures with wild animals and border bandits. |
D.M. Kelsey |
Thompson & Thomas, Chicago |
1901 |
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, during the years 1799-1804 |
Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland; transl. Thomasina Ross |
George Bell & Sons, London |
1908 |
The Nile. Notes for Travellers in Egypt and in the Egyptian Sudan |
E.A. Wallis Budge |
Thos. Cook & Son |
1910 |
A Congo Pathfinder. W. Holman Bentley among African Savages |
John H. Weeks |
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1916? |
South : The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 |
E. Shackleton |
William Heinemann, London |
1919 (1982 reprint) |
South with Scott |
E.R.G.R. Evans |
Collins, London |
1921 |
Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel and Exploration by Sir Richard Burton K.C.M.G. |
Ed. N.M. Penzer |
R.M. Mcbride & Co., New York |
1924 |
The Story of Exploration and Adventure (2 vols) |
Ed. Sir Percy Sikes |
George Newnes, London |
1926 |
Senor Bum in the Jungle |
Algo Sand |
Victor Gollancz, London |
1932 |
Dragon Lizards of Komodo. An expedition to the lost world of the Dutch East Indies |
W. Douglas Burden |
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York-London |
1936 |
The Seven Pillars of Wisdon |
T.E. Lawrence |
Jonathan Cape, London |
1936 |
The Nile, The Life Story of a River from the Source to Egypt |
Emil Ludwig |
George Allan & Unwin |
1936 |
Island of Bali |
M. Covarrubias |
Cassel |
1937 |
Oriental Spotlight |
Rameses |
John Murray |
1937 |
Wanderings in the Peruvian Andes |
A.M. Renwick |
Blackie & Son |
1939 |
A Desert Journal - Letters from Central Asia |
Evangeline French, Mildred Cable, Francesca French |
Hodder and Stoughton, London |
1939 (2nd ed.) |
Tibetan Venture - in the Country of the Ngolo-Setas |
André Guibaut |
John Murray |
1949 |
The Desert Watches |
Wilson MacArthur |
Rupert Hart-Davies |
1954 |
HISTORY |
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The Stage Condemn'd, and, the encouragement given to the Immoralities and Profaneness of the Theatre, by the English Schools, Universities and Pulpits, Censur'd. King Charles I. Sundays Mask and Declaration for Sports and Pastimes on the Sabbath, largely related and Animadverted upon. The Arguments of all the Authors that have Writ in Defence of the Stage against Mr. Collier, Consider'd. And, the Sense of the Fathers, Councils, Antient Philosophers and Poets, and of the Greek and Roman States, and of the First Christian Emperours concerning the DRAMA, Faithfully Deliver'd. Together with the Censure of the English State and of several Antient and Modern Divines of the Church of England upon the STAGE. And Remarks on diverse late Plays, as also on those presented by the two Universities to King Charles I. [Kindly donated by Rafael Sorkin] |
George Ridpath |
Printed for John Salusbury, at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard |
1698 |
History of the Inquisition, from its Establishment to the Present
Time, with an Account of its Procedure, and Narratives of its Victims |
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Ward & Co., London |
1850 |
The History of the Great Plague in London, in the year 1665. By a
Citizen who Lived the Whole Time in London. Together with an Account
of the Fire in 1666 from the Memoirs of Evelyn |
D. Defoe |
R. Clay, London
| 1858 |
The Book of Martyrs, being a History of the Persecution of Protestants |
J. Foxe |
Adam & Co., London |
1873 |
A History of England, from the Accession of James the Second. Vol. 1 |
Lord Macauley |
Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer |
1873 |
The History of the Conquest of Peru, with a preliminary view of the civilization of the Incas (2 vols) |
William H. Prescott |
Routledge & Sons, London |
1885 |
The Barbary Corsairs |
Stanley Lane-Poole |
T. Fisher Unwin, London |
1890 |
Indian Horrors , or, Massacres by the red men, being a thrilling narrative of bloody wars with merciless and revengeful savages, including a full account of the daring deeds and tragic death of the world-renowned chief Sitting Bull, with startling descriptions of fantastic ghost dances; mysterious medicine men; desperate Indian braves; scalping of helpless settlers; burning their homes, etc, etc, the whole comprising a fascinating history of the Indians from the discovery of America to the present time; their manners, customs, modes of warfare, legends etc. |
Henry Davenport Northrop |
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1890? |
Witchcraft Illustrated. Facts, theories, and incidents. With a glance at Old and New Salem and its historical resources. |
H.D. Kimball |
Geo. A. Kimball, Boston |
1892 |
Armenian Massacres and Turkish Tyranny or, The sword of Mohammed, containing a complete and thrilling account of the terrible atrocities and wholesale murders committed in Armenia by Mohammedan fanatics, including a full account of the Turkish people, their history, government, manners, customs and strange religious belief, to which is added, the Mohammedan reign of terror in Armenia |
Frederick Davis Greene |
American Oxford Publishing Co. |
1896 |
The Philosophy of Witchcraft |
Ian Ferguson |
George G. Harrap & Co. |
1924 |
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine artist, written by himself |
Himself, Transl. A MacDonell |
J.M. Dent, London |
1926 |
Fifty Great Disasters and Tragedies that Shocked the World |
Various |
Odhams Press |
c. 1930s |
Celebrated Courtezans |
Richepin |
Mathieson & Co., London |
? |
MOUNTAINEERING |
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Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: A series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club |
Ed. John Ball |
Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London |
1860, 5th ed. |
Hours of Exercise in the Alps |
John Tyndall |
Longmans, Green & Co., London |
1871, 1st ed. |
Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69 |
Edward Whymper |
John Murray, London |
1871, 1st ed. (reprint) |
Mountains and Mountain-Climbing. Records of adventure and enterprise among the famous mountains of the world |
William H.D. Adams |
T. Nelson and Sons, London |
1883, 1st ed. |
A Guide to Chamonix and the Range of Mount Blanc |
Edward Whymper |
John Murray, London |
1899, 4th ed. |
Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon and through the back gate of the Congo state |
T. Broadwood Johnson |
T. Fisher Unwin, London |
1908 |
Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator |
Edward Whymper |
Thomas Nelson & Sons |
c. 1910 |
My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus |
A.F. Mummery |
Thomas Nelson & Sons |
c.1910 |
True Tales of Mountain Adventure |
Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond |
Thomas Nelson & Sons |
c. 1910 |
Mountain Craft |
Geoffrey Winthrop Young |
Methuen & Co., London |
1920, 1st ed. |
Below the Snow Line |
Douglas W. Freshfield |
Constable & Co. |
1923 |
The Epic of Mount Everest |
Sir Francis Younghusband |
Arnold |
1927 |
Early Travellers in the Alps |
G.R. de Beer |
Sidgwick & Jackson, London |
1930 |
Kamet Conquered |
F.S. Smythe |
Victor Gollancz, London |
1933 |
First Over Everest. The Houston Mount Everest Expedition 1933 |
P.F.M. Fellowes et al. |
John Lane, London |
1933 |
Mountaineering Ventures |
Claude E. Benson |
T.C & E.C. Jack, London |
c. 1935 |
Mountains of the Moon, an Expedition to the Equatorial Mountains of Africa |
Patrick M. Synge |
Lindsay Drummond Ltd. |
1937 |
Ten Years under the Earth |
Norbert Casteret |
J.M. Dent, London |
1940 |
Spirit of the Hills |
F.S. Smythe |
Hodder & Stoughton |
1941 |
Memoirs of a Mountaineer:'Helvellyn to Himalaya' and 'Lhasa - the Holy City' |
F. Spencer Chapman |
Reprint Society, London |
1940/1938 (1945) |
The Matterhorn |
Guido Rey |
Basil Blackwell, Oxford |
1946 |
The Ascent of Everest |
Sir John Hunt |
Hodder & Stoughton |
1954 |
The Technique of Mountaineering, a handbook of established methods |
J.E.B. Wright |
Mountaineering Association |
1955 |
Matterhorn Man. The Life and Adventures of Edward Whymper |
Walter Unsworth |
Victor Gollancz, London |
1965 |
OLD ITALY |
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Remarks on Several Parts of Italy &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 |
Joseph Addison |
Tonson and Draper, London |
1753 |
An account of the manners and customs of Italy, with observations on the Mistakes of some travellers, with regard to that Country |
Joseph Barretti |
T. Davies, London |
1768 |
Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in
Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803. |
John Forsyth |
John Murray |
1835 |
Roma, Descrizioni e Ricordi |
Francesco Wey |
Milani |
1879 (1988 repr.) |
Venetian Life |
W.D. Howells |
Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig |
1883 |
Italy - Handbook for Travellers. Third Part, Southern Italy and
Sicily, with Excursions to the Lipari Islands, Malta, Sardinia, Tunis,
and Corfu |
Karl Baedeker |
Baedeker |
1896, 12th rev. ed. |
Rock Villages of the Riviera |
William Scott |
Adam and Charles Black, London |
1898 |
Rome. Its Churches, Monuments, Art and Antiquities |
Francis Wey |
William Glaisher |
1903 |
Italy - Handbook for Travellers. Second Part, Central Italy and Rome. |
Karl Baedeker |
Baedeker |
1904, 14th rev. ed. |
Hill Towns of Italy |
Egerton R. Williams |
Smith, Elder & Co., London |
1904 |
Italy - Handbook for Travellers. First Part - Northern Italy |
Karl Baedeker |
Baedeker |
1906, 13th rev. ed. |
Italy Handbook for Travellers. From the Alps to Naples
and Rome. |
Karl Baedeker |
Baedeker |
1909, 2nd ed. |
How to See Italy by Rail |
Douglas Sladen |
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. |
1912 |
Venice |
Lonsdale and Laura Ragg |
A. & C. Black, London |
1916 |
Among Italian Peasants |
Tony Cyriax |
W. Collins, London |
1919 |
The Stones of Italy |
C.T.G. Formelli |
A. & C. Black, London |
1927 |
Wonders of Italy. The monuments of antiquity, the churches,
the palaces, the treasures of art
[Presented by the publishers to Austen Chamberlain, British chancellor/Foreign Secretary
and brother of prime minister Neville Chamberlain]
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G. Fattorusso, Florence |
1928 |
The Castles of Italy |
C.T.G. Formelli |
A. & C. Black, London |
1933 |
TUSCAN AND LOCAL HISTORY |
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Tuscan Sculptors. Their lives, works and times (2 vols.) |
C.C. Perkins |
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green |
1864 |
A Nook in the Apennines, or, a Summer Beneath the Chestnuts |
Leader Scott |
C. Kegan Paul & Co., London |
1879 |
Una Gita alla Tana di Cascaltendine nel Monte di Gragno
[SEE MIKE'S TRANSLATION].
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Pietro Magri |
Tipografia di P. Groppi |
1880 |
Il Territorio di Barga |
Pietro Magri |
Arte della Stampa, Firenze |
1881, 1st ed. |
Tuscan Cities |
W.D. Howells |
Heinemann and Balestier |
1891 |
The Tuscan Republics (Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Lucca) with Genoa |
Bella Duffy |
T. Fisher Unwin, London |
1892 |
Earthwork out of Tuscany, being impressions and translations of Maurice Hewlett with Illustrations by James Kerr-Lawson |
Maurice Hewlett |
J.M. Dent, London |
1899, 2nd rev. ed. |
The Road in Tuscany. A commentary (2 vols.) |
Maurice Hewlett |
Macmillan and Co., London |
1904 |
Tuscan Folk-lore and Sketches |
Isabella M. Anderton |
Arnold Fairbairns, London |
1905 |
A Famous Corner of Tuscany |
Evangeline Whipple |
Jarrolds |
c. 1910 |
A Wanderer in Florence |
E.V. Lucas |
Methuen & Co. |
1912, 1st ed. |
In Tuscany. Tuscan towns, Tuscan types, and the Tuscan tongue |
Montgomery Carmichael |
Burns & Oates, London |
1913, 4th ed. |
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa |
Edward Hutton |
Methuen & Co. |
1914, 3rd ed. |
A Wayfarer in Unknown Tuscany |
Edward Hutton |
Methuen & Co. |
1925, 3rd ed. |
La Necropoli di Cerveteri |
M. Pallottino |
Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato |
c. 1950 |
The Necropolis of Cerveteri |
M. Pallottino (trans. M.E. Stanley) |
Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato |
c. 1950 |
Tuscan Retreat |
Vernon Bartlett |
Chatto & Windus |
1964 |
SCIENCE, NATURAL HISTORY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS |
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A Compendium of Anatomy, containing a Short but Perfect View of all
the Parts of Humane Bodies, wherein are inserted the Modern Discoveries together with a Variety of Curious Observations never before made publick. |
D. Laurentius Heister |
Printed for Tho. Combes, at the Bible and Dove in Pater-noster Row, and James Lacy, between the temple Gates in Fleet-Street |
1721 |
The Wonders of Nature and Art, comprising nearly three hundred of
the most remarkable curiosities and phenomena in the known world,
with an account of the recent improvements in locomotive travelling,
steam navigation &cc. &cc. |
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William Milner, Halifax |
1839 |
The Young Man's Book of Amusement, containing the most interesting and instructive experiments in various branches of science, to which is added all the popular tricks and changes in cards and the art of making fire works. [This book has its very own web site - see here]. |
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Halifax |
1846 |
The Entertaining Naturalist: being popular descriptions, tales and anecdotes of more than five hundred animals, comprehending all the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, &c. of which a knowledge is indispensable in polite education. |
Mrs. Loudon |
Henry G. Bohn, London |
1850 |
Curiosities of Physical Geography & Caves of the Earth |
W. Wittich |
G. Cox, London |
1853 |
Science Popularly Explained : the principles of natural and physical science, and their practical and useful applications to the employments and necessities of common life, familiarly explained, and illustrated with upwards of two hundred engravings. |
David A. Wells |
W. Kent and Co., London |
1856 |
The Treasury of Natural History, or a Popular Dictionary of Zoology
in which the characteristics that distinguish the different classes, genera and species, are combined with a variety of interesting information
illustrative of the habits, instincts, and general economy of the animal
kingdom. |
Samuel Maunder |
Longman, Green, Longman,
and Roberts, London |
1862, 2nd ed. |
Scenes of Wonder in Many Lands: being descriptions of remarkable rapids, cascades, waterfalls, natural bridges, &c. |
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T. Nelson & Sons, London |
1868 |
Elementary Treatise on Physics Experimental and Applied |
Ganot (Transl. E. Atkinson) |
Longmans, Green, & Co., London |
1870 |
Wonders of the Deep |
M. Schele De Vere |
James Blackwood & Co. |
c. 1871 |
The Desert World, or, the scenery, animal and vegetable life, and physical character of the wildernesses and waste places of the earth |
Arthur Mangin |
T. Nelson & Sons, London |
1872 |
Six Lectures on Light, delivered in America in 1872-1873 |
John Tyndall |
Longmans, Green, & Co., London |
1873 |
The Unseen Universeor, physical speculations on a future state |
B. Stewart and P.G. Tait |
Macmillan & Co., London |
1876 |
A Hundred Wonders of the World in Nature and Art, described according to the latest authorities, and profusely illustrated |
John Small |
W.P. Nimmo, London |
1877 |
The Universe, or, the infinitely great and the infinitely little |
F.A. Pouchet |
Blackie and Son, London |
1877, 5th ed. |
Evenings at the Microscope; or, researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life. |
Philip Henry Gosse |
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge |
1877 |
On Some Properties of the Earth |
O. Reichenbach |
Wertheimer, Lea & Co., London |
1880 |
Pictorial Chronicles of the Mighty Deep, or, the sea, its ships and sailors. Being a record from the earliest times to our own day of the most remarkable maritime adventures, voyages, discoveries, conflicts, deeds of bravery and danger, with special reference to the exploits of our own countrymen, and the founding, extension, and development of the world-wide British empire. The whole forming a valuable, interesting, and instructive compendium. |
Francis Watt |
James Sangster & Co., London |
c. 1880 |
Letters on Natural Magic |
David Brewster |
W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London |
1882 |
God's Glorious Creations, or, the Mighty Marvels of Earth, Sea and
Sky. The Earth's Place in the Universal Plan. |
Dr. H.J. Klein, Dr. Thomé
Trans. J. Minshull |
Ward, Lock & Co., London |
1886 |
The Creator's Wonders in Living Nature, or, Marvels of Life in the
Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms. Organic Life in all Parts of the World, on
Land and in the Ocean |
Dr. H.J. Klein, Dr. Thomé
Trans. J. Minshull |
Ward, Lock & Co., London |
1886 |
Famous Caverns and Grottoes, described and illustrated |
W.H. Davenport Adams |
T. Nelson & Sons, London |
1886 |
Volcanoes and Earthquakes. A popular description of the movements in the Earth's crust |
Dr. G. Hartwig |
Longmans, Green, & Co., London |
1887 |
Sea-monsters and Sea-birds |
Dr. G. Hartwig |
Longmans, Greean, & Co., London |
1887 |
Half Hours Underground |
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Charles Burnet, London |
1888, 1st Ed. |
Earthquakes, with fifty-seven illustrations |
Arnold Boscowitz (Trans. C.B. Pitman) |
Routledge & Sons |
1890 |
The Royal Natural History (6 vols) |
Ed. Richard Lydekker |
Frederick Warne & Co. |
1893 |
A Study of Recent Earthquakes |
Charles Davison |
Walter Scott |
1905 |
Volcanoes and Earthquakes |
Edward J. Houston |
W. & R. Chambers, London |
1908 |
How to Fly, or, the Conquest of the Air. The story of man's endeavours to fly and of the inventions by which he has succeeded. |
Richard Ferris |
Thomas Nelson and Sons |
1910 |
Science in Modern Life. A survey of scientific development, discovery and invention and their relations to human progress and industry (6 vols) |
Ed. J.R. Ainsworth Davies |
Gresham Publishing Company |
1910 |
The Theory of Relativity |
Albert Einstein, Ph.D. |
Methuen, London |
1920 |
Islands and their Mysteries |
A. Hyatt Verrill |
Andrew Melrose, London |
1920 |
Space Time Motion. An historical introduction to the general theory of relativity |
A.V. Vasiliev |
Chatto and Windus, London |
1924 |
Matter and Light: the New Physics |
Louis de Broglie |
George Allen and Unwin, London |
1939 |
ASTRONOMY |
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A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes; or a philosophical view of the Earth and heavens: comprehending an account of the figure, magnitude, and motion of the Earth ; with the natural changes of its surface, caused by floods, earthquakes, &c. Together with the principles of meteorology, and astronomy ; with the theory of the tides, &c. Preceded by an extensive selection of astronomical, and other definitions; and illustrated by a great variety of problems, questions for the examination of the student, &c. &c. Designed for the instruction of youth. |
Thomas Keith |
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London |
1834 |
Solar System - Atmosphere |
Thomas Dick |
The Religious Tract Society |
c. 1847 |
Manual of Astronomy |
Joseph A. Galbraith, Samuel Haughton |
Longman, Brown, Green, Longman, & Roberts, London |
1857 |
The Sextant and its Applications: including the correction of
observations for instrumental errors, and the determination of latitude, time and longitude by various methods on land and at sea, with examples and tables. |
W.H. Simms |
Troughton and Simms, London |
1858 |
The Moon : her Motions, Aspect, Scenery, and Physical Condition |
Richard A. Proctor |
Longmans, Green & Co., London |
1873 |
Other Worlds Than Ours. The plurality of worlds studied under the light of scientific researchers. |
Richard A. Proctor |
Longmans Green, and Co., London |
1893 |
Mathematical Astronomy |
C.W.C.Barlow, G.H.Bryan |
Clive & Co. |
1893 |
The Amateur Astronomer |
Gideon Riegler |
T. Fisher Unwin, London |
1910 |
ARCHAEOLOGY |
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History of Ancient Pottery |
Samuel Birch |
John Murray, London |
1858 |
The History of Ancient Egypt (2 vols) |
George Rawlinson |
Longmans, Green & Co. |
1881 |
The Buried Cities of Vesuvius, Herculaneum and Pompeii |
John Fletcher Horne |
Hazell, Watson and Viney, London |
1895 |
The Dawn of Civilization. Egypt and Chaldea |
G. Maspero |
D. Appleton & Co., New York |
1897 ,3rd ed. |
Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities
in Egypt, for the Use of Students and Travellers |
G. Maspero |
H. Grevel & Co., London |
1902, 5th ed. |
Egypt, Painted and Described |
R. Talbot Kelly |
Adam & Charles Black, London |
1903 |
Wonders of the Past. The Marvellous Works of Man in Ancient Times
described by the Leading Authorities of Today (3 vols) |
Ed. J.A. Hammerton |
EBC Ltd. |
c. 1920 |
The Problem of Atlantis |
Lewis Spence |
William Rider & Son (London) |
1924 |
The Book of the Dead, Books on Egypt and Chaldea
| E.A. Wallis Budge |
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. |
1928, 2nd ed. |
The Great Pyramid, a Scientific Revelation |
Adam Rutherford |
Self published |
1939 |
OLD PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS |
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Portfolio of Photographs of Famous Cities, Scenes & Paintings, containing a rare and elaborate collection of photographic views of the entire world of nature and art, presenting and describing the choicest treasures of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America, The Old World and the New. |
Compiled by John L. Stoddard |
Werner Company, Chicago |
c. 1892 |
Scenes from Every Land. Over five hundred photographic views, embracing the most beautiful and famous palaces, cathedrals, churches, monuments, and statues of the old world; feudal castles, heathen temples, and the classic ruins of Italy, Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land, together with the masterpieces of sculpture and painting in the art galleries of Europe. A photographic panorama of the world, giving exquisite views of mountain, lake, river, forest and ocean scenery in every country; instantaneous photographs of street scenes in the great cities, and objects of natural curiousity, artistic beauty and sublimity everywhere. Designed to take the place of an extended tour of the world. |
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Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, Springfield, Ohio |
1893 |
Round the World from London Bridge to Charing Cross, via Yokohoma and Chicago. An album of pictures from photographs of the chief places of interest in all parts of the world. |
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George Newnes, London |
1895 |
ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY |
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Isis Unveiled, a Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern
Science and Theology |
H.P. Blavatsky |
Rider & Co., London |
1877 (facsimile, 1930s?) |
Intercourse of the Soul and the Body |
Emanuel Swedenborg |
Swedenborg Society, London |
1887 |
The Light of Egypt, or, the Science of the Soul and the Stars |
Anonymous (in fact, Thomas H. Burgoyne) |
George Redway, London |
1889, 1st ed. |
Gems of Thought from Leading Intellectual Lights, Educational, Soul
Elevating and Spiritualizing, Designed to Illustrate Certain Grand
Truths which are Connected with the Spiritual Philosophy |
Compiled J.R. Francis |
Progressive Thinker Publishing House |
1906 |
COOKING |
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The Praife of York-shire Ale,wherein is enumerated feveral Sorts of
Drinks, with a Difcription of the Humors of moft forts of Drunckards
| G. Meriton |
J. White, York |
1694 |
The Cook's Guide, and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant :
A practical treatise on English and foreign cookery in all its branches;
containing plain instructions for pickling and preserving vegetables,
fruits, game &c.; the curing of hams and bacon ; the art of confectionery
and ice-making, and the arrangement of desserts. With valuable directions
for the preparation of proper diet for invalids ; also for a variety
of wine-cups and epicurean salads, American drinks, and summer beverages. |
Charles Elmé Francatelli
(pupil of the celebrated Careme,
seven years chef de cuisine to the
Reform Club, and Maître-d'Hôtel
and chief cook to Her Majesty the Queen) |
Bentley & Son, London |
1880 |
All about Ices, Jellies, Creams & Conserves |
Henry G. Harris and S.P. Borella |
Maclaren & Sons |
1926? |
Leaves from our Tuscan Kitchen, or, How to Cook Vegatables |
Janet Ross |
J.M. Dent & Sons, London |
1927 5th ed. |
RELIGION |
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The Analogy of Religion |
Joseph Butler |
Ward, Lock, and Co., London |
1882? |
The Gospel in Many Tongues (576 of them!) |
British and Foreign Bible Society |
London |
1925 |
LANGUAGES |
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An Italian Conversation Grammar & Guide to Italian Composition |
N. Perini |
Librairie Hachette |
1895 |
Tourist's and Student's Manual of Languages, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Rumanian, Welsh, Latin, Modern Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hindutsani, Chinese, Japanese, also How to learn a language; pronunciation, money and exchange tables, motor terms, &c. |
Captain Chas. Slack |
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London |
1910 |
Arabic Grammar of the Written Language |
G.W. Thatcher |
Julius Groos, Heidelberg |
1927, 3rd ed. |
The Spoken Arabic of Iraq |
John van Ess |
Oxford University Press |
1941, 2nd ed. |
BOOKS |
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The Private Library |
Arthur L. Humphries |
Strangeways & Sons, London |
1897 |
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books |
Douglas Cockerell |
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons |
1920 |
ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS |
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The National Encyclopedia : A dictionary of universal knowledge by writers of eminence in literature, science and art (13 vols) |
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William Mackenzie |
1860, 1st ed. |
Countries of the World (6 vols) |
Ed.J.A. Hammerton |
Waverley Book Co. |
c. 1920 |
LITERATURE |
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The Works of Alexander Pope Efq., Volume VIII, being the Second of his Letters |
A. Pope |
Year |
1760 |
International Library of Famous Literature (20 vols.) |
Ed. Dr. R. Garnett
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1899, 1st ed. |
BOUND MAGAZINES |
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine |
Various |
The Century Co., New York |
1896 |
The Wide World Magazine, Vol. I, Apr-Sep 1898 |
Various |
George Newnes, London |
1899 |
The Wide World Magazine, Vol. III, Apr-Sep 1899 |
Various |
George Newnes, London |
1899 |
FIRESIDE STORIES AND AMUSEMENTS |
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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments |
Trans. Galland |
R. Griffin & Co., London |
1828 |
Christmas Books |
Charles Dickens |
Chapman and Hall |
c. 1860 |
Arabian Nights' Entertainments |
Trans. Galland |
William P. Nimmo & Co., Edinburgh |
1881 |
Fairy Tales |
Hans Andersen |
Collins |
c. 1890 |
Fireside Amusements - a Book of Indoor Games |
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W. & R. Chambers, London |
1890 |
Fairy Tales |
Brothers Grimm |
Blackie and Son |
1905 |
True Ghost Stories |
Cheiro |
London Publishing Co. |
1928 (3rd ed.) |
Tales from the Gûlistan, or, Rose-Garden of the Sheikh Sa'Di of Shiraz |
Trans. Richard F. Burton |
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1928 |
EROTICA |
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Ananga Ranga or, the Hindu Art of Love |
Trans.F.F. Arbuthnot and Richard F. Burton |
Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares |
1885 1st ed. (for private circulation only) |
Phallic Worship. A history of sex and sex rites in relation to the religions of all races from antiquity to the present day |
George Ryley Scott |
T. Werner Laurie, London |
1941 |
GARDENING |
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The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers from seeds and roots. Also a years work in the vegatable garden, flowers all the year round, the rotation and chemistry of crops, the formation of lawns from seed, and descriptions of and remedies for garden pests |
Sutton & Sons |
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent & Co. |
1895 |