Travels & Topography

The history and topography of Ashbourn, the valley of the Dove and the adjacent villages; with biographical sketches of eminent natives &c This...

A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I II, III, IV by George Anson, esq; now Lord Anson... compiled from his his letters and papers by Ri...

An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India; and the progress of trade with that country prior to the disco...

History of the Azores, or Western Islands; containing an account of the government, laws, and religion, the manners, ceremonies, and character of t...

An Historical Sketch of the Campaign of 1815, illustrated by plans of the operations and of the battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny, and Waterloo... seco...

Picturesque antiquities of Scotland Adam de Cardonnel (1746/7-1820) trained as a surgeon, but ‘his easy circumstances left him leisure to indulge h...

Relation des événements arrivés à Sainte-Hélène, postérieurement à la nomination de Sir Hudson Lowe, au gouvernement de cette île, en réponse à une...

Nouveau voyage en Espagne, ou tableau de l'état actuel de cette monarchie  Jean-François, baron de Bourgoing (1748-1811), was a French diplomat, wr...

A Shooting Trip to Kamchatka The immensely wealthy Count Elim Pavlovich Demidov, third Prince of San Donato, was the Russian Empire's last ambassad...

A member of a relatively impecunious Franco-Irish gentry family, Crommelin travelled widely and supported herself by writing travel accounts and 42...

Plot, Robert: The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England. By R.P. LL.D. Oxford: Printed at the Theat...

The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the autumn of 1852. With a voyage down the Volga and a tour through the country of the Don Cossacks. Second ...

Historical Recollections of Hyde Park, compiled and arranged from numerous authentic works, public records, private documents, &c. London: prin...

Walks through Bath describing every thing worthy of interest… including Walcot and Widcombe and the surrounding vicinity… also an excursion to Clif...

The Old Court Suburb; or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, and Anecdotical. London: Freemantle & Co, 1902 A poet and journalist, Leigh...

The Village of Palaces; or, Chronicles of Chelsea. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1880 The Reverend Alfred L’Estrange (1832-1915) wrote other topograp...

Chronicles of London Bridge: by an antiquary. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1827. Richard Thomson (1794-1865) wrote extensively on London history (...

Extracts from the Minutes of the Epping and Ongar Highway Trust. From its Commencement in 1769 to its Termination in 1870. London: Harrison and Son...

Travels, comprising observations made during a residence in the Tarentaise, and various parts of the Grecian and Pennine Alps, and in Switzerland a...

An Account of the Legacies, Gifts, Rents, Fees &c. appertaining to the Church and Poor of the Parish of St, Alphege Greenwich in the County of ...

The travels in this book arose from Baden-Powell’s appointment as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Queensland. He later became of a pioneer of milit...

Notes of Travel. Extracts from Home Letters written during a Two Years’ Tour Round the World, 1879-1881 Only edition. This is a presentation copy, ...

La garde-chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles de Messence, comte deVoyage dans quelques parties de l'Europe, par le comte de Lagarde... Seconde édition...

Phillimore, Colonel Reginald Henry: Historical Records of the Survey of India. Volumes 1 to 4... alas not including the suppressed fifth volume Col...

Proctor, Robert: Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes and of a residence in Lima and other parts of Peru in the years 1823 and...

An illustrated record of important events in the annals of Europe, during the last four years: comprising a series of views of the principal place...