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1. The bardic museum : of primitive British literature, and other admirable rarities : forming the second volume of the Musical, poetical, and historical relicks of the Welsh bards and druids ... : containing, the bardic triads, historic odes, eulogies, songs, elegies, memorials of the tombs of the warriors, of King Arthur and his knights, regalias, the wonders of Wales, et caetera : with English translations and historic illustrations : likewise, the ancient war-tunes of the bards ... to these national melodies are added new basses, with variations ... / by Edward Jones ...

The bardic museum : of primitive British literature, and other admirable rarities : forming the second volume of the Musical, poetical, and historical relicks of the Welsh bards and druids ... : containing, the bardic triads, historic odes, eulogies, songs, elegies, memorials of the tombs of the warriors, of King Arthur and his knights, regalias, the wonders of Wales, et caetera : with English translations and historic illustrations : likewise, the ancient war-tunes of the bards ... to these national melodies are added new basses, with variations ... / by Edward Jones ...
Creator:
Jones, Edward, 1752–1824
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
xx, 112 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... containing his Discourses, papers in the Idler, the Journal of a tour through Flanders and Holland, and also his commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting. Printed from the author's rev. copies, with his last corrections and additions ... To which is prefixed, Some account of the life of the author, by Edmond Malone ...

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Creator:
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
3 v. front. (port.) pl. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Travels in Brazil / b Henry Koster.

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Creator:
Koster, Henry, 1793–approximately 1820
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

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Creator:
Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:
MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:
[2], viii, [2], 316, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Etchings of views and antiquities in the county of Gloucestershire : hitherto imperfectly or never engraved.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
[26] p., [106] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
43 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. An account of the kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India : comprising a view of the Afghaun nation, and a history of the Dooraunee monarchy / by the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone.

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Creator:
Elphinstone, Mountstuart, 1779–1859
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
xxi, 675 p., [16] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A catalogue of drawings and books of drawings : to be sold on Thursday the 6th of May 1802 for the endowment of a parish-school : at Boldre, near Lymington, in Hampshire : to this catalogue is added the author's account of the drawings contained in it, and of the principles, on which they are executed ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
43 p., 3 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A journey from Edinburgh through parts of North Britain : containing remarks on Scotish landscape, and observations on rural economy, natural history, manufactures, trade, and commerce : insterspersed with anecdotes, traditional, literary, and historical : together with biographical sketches, relating chiefly to civil and ecclesiastical affairs, from the twelfth century down to the present time : in two volumes, embellished with forty-four engravings, from drawings made on the spot, of the lake, river, and mountain scenery of Scotland / by Alexander Campbell.

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Creator:
Campbell, Alexander, 1764–1824
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey / by Adam Neale.

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Creator:
Neale, Adam, d. 1832
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xiii, [1], 295, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A journey from India to England : through Persia, Georgia, Russia, Poland and Prussia, in the year 1817 / by Lieut. Col. John Johnson ... ; illustrated with engravings.

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Creator:
Johnson, John, Lieutenant Colonel
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
x, [1], 376 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Journal of a party of pleasure to Paris, in the month of August, 1802 : by which any person intending to take such a journey may form an accurate idea of the expence that would attend it, and the amusement he would probably receive : together with thirteen views from nature, illustrative of French scenery : aquatinted by J. Hill, from drawings by the author.

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Creator:
Paul, John Dean, Sir, 1775–1852
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
viii, 102 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Travels in Brazil / by Henry Koster.

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Creator:
Koster, Henry, 1793–approximately 1820
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xii, 501 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa in the years 1797 and 1798 : including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent : the natural history of such objects as occured inthe animal, vegetable and mineral kingdons : and sketches of the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope : to which is annexed a description of the present state, population, and produces of that extensive colony : with a map constructed entirely from actual observations made in the course of the travels / By John Barrow ...

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Creator:
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764–1848
Date:
1801-1804
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. 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

17. A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople : between the years 1810 and 1816 : with a journal of the voyage by the Brazils and Bombay to the Persian gulf : together with an account of the proceedings of His Majesty's embassy under His Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley ... / by James Morier ; .. with two maps and engravings from the designs of the author.

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Creator:
Morier, James Justinian, 1780?-1849
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 435 p, [19] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., maps ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde : accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries : with a map / by Lieutenant Henry Pottinger.

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Creator:
Pottinger, Henry, Sir, 1789–1856
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xxx, 423 p., [2] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A narrative of the shipwreck of the Oswego, on the coast of South Barbary, and of the sufferings of the master and the crew while in bondage among the Arabs; interspersed with numerous remarks upon the country and its inhabitants and the peculiar perils of that coast. By Judah Paddock, her late master.

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Creator:
Paddock, Judah
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
xvi, 372 p. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts