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Period 19th century

Subject Terms Discoveries in geography.

1. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

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Creator:: Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: [2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A brief narrative of an unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay : through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," in His Majesty's Ship Griper, in the year MDCCCXXIV / by Captain G.F. Lyon, R.N. ; with a chart and engravings.

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Creator:: Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:: MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:: xvi, 198, [2] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific oceans ; in the years 1789 and 1793 : with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country ; illustrated with maps / by Alexander Mackenzie, Esq.

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Creator:: Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764–1820
Date:: MDCCCI [1801]
Physical Description:: [4], viii, [2], cxxxii, 412, [2] pages, [4] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : portrait, maps ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean / by James Burney, captain in the Royal Navy.

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Creator:: Burney, James, 1750–1821
Date:: 1803-1817
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Illustrationes algarum in itinere circa orbem jussu Imperatoris Nicolai I : atque auspiciis navarchi Friderici Lütke annis 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829 celoce Seniavin exsecuto in Oceano Pacifico, inprimis septemtrionali ad littora rossica asiatico-americana collectarum / Auctoribus Alexandro Postels et Francisco Ruprecht.

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Creator:: Postels, A. (Aleksandr), 1801–1871
Date:: MDCCCXL [1840]
Physical Description:: [4], vi, 22, [6], iv, 22, [2] pages, [41] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 72 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Viaggio di La Perouse intorno al mondo / tradotto dal Cav. Angelo Petracchi ; con note del medesimo ; e con tavole in rame colorate.

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Creator:: La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741–1788
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 4 v. : col. ill., col. map ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The private journal of Captain G.F. Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, during the recent voyage of discovery under Captain Parry : with a map and plates.

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Creator:: Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795–1832
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: xiii, [1] 468 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations, folded map ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Maritime discovery and Christian missions, considered in their mutual relations. By John Campbell ... illustrated with engravings by G. Baxter.

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Creator:: Campbell, John, 1794–1867
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., xxiv, 578, 6 p. col. front., plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's straits, for the purpose of exploring a North-East passage : undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue : illustrated with numerous plates and maps : in three volumes.

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Creator:: Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War ; under the command of Major Stephen H. Long : from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party / compiled by Edwin James, botanist and geologist for the expedition ; in two vols., with an atlas.

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Creator:: James, Edwin, 1797–1861
Date:: 1822-1823
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 25-30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts