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1. Switzerland in miniature : description of the grand model of Switzerland, by professor Gaudin, of Geneva, 26 feet by 21 feet, now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

Switzerland in miniature : description of the grand model of Switzerland, by professor Gaudin, of Geneva, 26 feet by 21 feet, now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
iv, [1], 6-32 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A picturesque tour of the island of Jamaica / by James Hakewill.

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Creator:
Hakewill, James, 1778–1843
Date:
1990
Physical Description:
[18], 13, [41] pages, [21] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Valerie Facey.

3. The Holy Land : Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts R.A. ; with historical descriptions by the Rev. George Croly ; lithographed by Louis Hage.

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Creator:
Roberts, David, 1796–1864
Date:
1842-1849
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations (lithographs) (some color), map, portraits ; 63 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A Catalogue of sixty eight pictures descriptive the scenery & customs of the inhabitants of Van Dieman's Land : together with views in England, Italy, &c., painted by John Glover, Esq., now exhibiting at no. 106, New Bond Street : hours, from 10, till 6.

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Date:
1835
Physical Description:
10, [2] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The American traveller, or, Observations on the present state, culture and commerce of the British colonies in America, and the further improvements of which they are capable : with an account of the exports, imports and returns of each colony respectively, and of the numbers of British ships and seamen, merchants, traders and manufacturers employed by all collectively : together with the amount of the revenue arising to Great-Britain therefrom : in a series of letters, written originally to the Right Honourable the Earl of ******** / by an old and experienced trader.

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Creator:
Clúny, Alexander
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:
[8], 122 pages, [2] leaves of plates, (1 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Walks in Rome / by Augustus J.C. Hare ... ; two volumes ...

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Creator:
Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834–1903
Date:
1878
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. American notes : Pictures from Italy : A child's history of England : The life of our Lord.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1938
Physical Description:
xxii, 891, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

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Creator:
Adair, James, approximately 1709–1783
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. London's lost rivers / Paul Talling.

London's lost rivers / Paul Talling.
Creator:
Talling, Paul
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
190, [2] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Gezigten uit Neêrlands Indië, naar de natuur geteekend en beschreven door C.W.M. van de Velde, opgedragen aan Zijne Koninklijke Hoogheid Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden.

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Creator:
Velde, Charles William Meredith van de, 1818–1898
Date:
[1846]
Physical Description:
87 pages 50 plates 60 x 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Britania, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones : the like never before published.

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Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:
[14], 464 pages, [63] leaves of plates (50 folded) : coats of arms, maps ; 36 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Chile : its geography, climate, earthquakes, government, social condition, mineral and agricultural resources, commerce, etc. etc. / by Lieut. J.M. Gilliss ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Gilliss, J. M. (James Melville), 1811–1865
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans, plates ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A pilgrim in Arabia / H. St. J.B. Philby.

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Creator:
Philby, H. St. J. B. (Harry St. John Bridger), 1885–1960
Date:
1943
Physical Description:
191, [8] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:
Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:
23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A brief history of ancient and modern India : from the earliest periods of antiquity to the termination of the late Mahratta war. / by Francis William Blagdon, Esquire.

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Creator:
Blagdon, Francis William, 1778–1819
Date:
[MDCCCV [1805]
Physical Description:
[10], 22, [8] pages, [65] leaves of plates : color illustrations (engravings) ; 58 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Les Philippines : histoire, géographie, mœurs, agriculture, industrie et commerce des colonies espagnoles dans l'Océanie / par J. Mallat.

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Creator:
Mallat, J. (Jean), 1808–1863
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
3 volumes : color illustrations, maps (some color), music, plans ; 24-52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Sketches in Egypt / by H. Pilleau, 16th Lancers ; lithographed by Dickinson & Son.

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Creator:
Pilleau, Henry, 1813 or 1815–1899
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
[15] leaves, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Notes, during a visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis Bœris, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem / by Sir Frederick Henniker.

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Creator:
Henniker, Frederick, Sir, 1793–1825
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
x, 340 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts