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1. Travels in China : containing descriptions, observations and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton, in which it is attempted to appreciate the rank that this extraordinary empire may be considered to hold in the scale of civilized nations ... / by John Barrow ... ; illustrated with several engravings.

Travels in China : containing descriptions, observations and comparisons, made and collected in the course of a short residence at the imperial palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a subsequent journey through the country from Pekin to Canton, in which it is attempted to appreciate the rank that this extraordinary empire may be considered to hold in the scale of civilized nations ... / by John Barrow ... ; illustrated with several engravings.
Creator:
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764–1848
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
x, [2], 632 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill., port. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793 : containing a general view of the valuable productions and the political importance of this flourishing kingdom, and also of such European settlements as were visited on the voyage : with sketches of the manners, character and condition of their several inhabitants : to which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802 to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation, being the remotest point in the interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated : the facts and descriptions taken from a manuscript journal, with a chart of the route / by John Barrow ...

A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793 : containing a general view of the valuable productions and the political importance of this flourishing kingdom, and also of such European settlements as were visited on the voyage : with sketches of the manners, character and condition of their several inhabitants : to which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802 to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation, being the remotest point in the interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated : the facts and descriptions taken from a manuscript journal, with a chart of the route / by John Barrow ...
Creator:
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764–1848
Physical Description:
xvii, [2], 447, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A description of the collection of ancient terracottas in the British Museum; with engravings.

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Creator:
British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 39 p. XL pl. (part fold.) 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Britannia depicta : a series of one hundred and thirty views of the most interesting and picturesque objects in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, & Derbyshire / engraved by John Landsheer, Wm. Byrne, S. Middiman, Geo. Cooke, John Scott, John Pye, and J. Neagle, from drawings made by J. Farington, R.A., Thos. Hearne, F.S.A., W. Turner, R.A., and others ; with brief descriptions by Samuel Lysons, F.R.S., F.S.A.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
6 pt. in 1 v. : ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic ; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptions.

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Creator:
Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:
1815-1818
Physical Description:
7 v. : pl. ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Encyclopedia of antiquities, and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval. By the Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke ...

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Creator:
Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770–1842
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts. (v. 1: port.) illus., plates, plan. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. An history of marine architecture : including an enlarged and progressive view of the nautical regulations and naval history, both civil and military, of all nations, especially of Great Britain : derived chiefly from original manuscripts, as well in private collections as in the great public repositories : and deduced from the earliest period to the present time : in three volumes / by John Charnock, Esq. F.S.A.

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Creator:
Charnock, John, 1756–1807
Date:
MDCCC-MDCCCII [1800-1802]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Six picturesque views in Derbyshire : descriptive of the journey of Piscator and Viator from Brailsford to Beresford Hall : illustrative of the second part of Walton's Angler / engraved and coloured by J. Meadows ; from original drawings by Alexander.

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Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The social day : a poem, in four cantos / by Peter Coxe ; illustrated with thirty-two engravings.

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Creator:
Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
x, [3], xii-xvi, [16], 354, [2] p., 32 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. An account of a geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia, for ascertaining the degrees of latitude and longitude of the mouth of the river Kovima; of the whole coast of the Tshutski, to East Cape; and of the islands in the eastern ocean, stretching to the American coast. Performed ... by Commodore Joseph Billings, in the years 1785, &c. to 1794. The whole narrated from the original papers, by Martin Sauer ...

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Creator:
Sauer, Martin
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
xxvi p., 1 l., 332, 58 p. xiv plates, fold. map. 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793 ... : to which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation ... / by John Barrow.

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Creator:
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764–1848
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
xviii, [2], 447, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 28 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts