Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 8 of 8 records

Total number of records: 8

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Europe4
France1
Iran1
Middle East1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Ray, John (1627-1705)3
Willughby, Francis3
Willughby, Francis (1635-1676)3
Armenian Church1
Aulnoy1
Aulnoy Madame D' (1705)1
Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713)1
Heylyn, Peter (1600-1662)1
Orthodox Eastern Church1
Richardson, Gabriel (1642)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16006
From 17002

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16995
Up to 17993

Archive Print Item

The present state of the Greek and Armenian churches, anno Christi, 1678. Written at the command of His Majesty

Rycaut, Sir Paul (1628-1700)

1679

A1v: imprimatur. Booklist of John Starkey (4pp.) at end.

More details


Archive Print Item

Memoirs of the court of France, and city of Paris: containing the intrigues of that court,... together with the occurrences of the town. In two parts. Translated from the original French

Aulnoy Madame d' (1705)

[c. 1702?]

Distinct from 'Memoirs of the court of France. In two parts...By Madam L.M.D., author of the Voyage into Spain [i.e. M.C.de la Mothe, comtesse d'Aulnoy],' London, R. Bentley and T. Benett, 1692. The L...

More details


Archive Print Item

The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis : Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan... To which is added, The coronation of this present king of Persia, Solyman the III

Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713)

1691

Published in English and French concurrently in 1686 as pt. 1 of the Travels, but no more parts were issued. "Le couronnement de Soleiman Troisième" had already appeared in Paris, 1671. A reissue o...

More details


Archive Print Item

Observations Topographical, Moral, & Physiological; made in a journey through part of the Low-Countries, Germany, Italy, and France: with A catalogue of plants not native of England, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues

Ray, John (1627-1705); Willughby, Francis (1635-1676)

1673

First edition. The "Catalogue of plants" is in Latin and has special title-page, fresh alphabet and pagination, although the signatures are continuous: Catalogus stirpium in Exteris regionibus a nob...

More details


Archive Print Item

France painted to the life

Heylyn, Peter (1600-1662)

1657

The first edition of this piracy of Books 1-4 of Heylyn's 'Full relation' appeared in 1656 and preceded the first authorized edition, also published in that year. The piracy adds five chapters (nos. 1...

More details


Archive Print Item

Of the state of Europe. XIIII. bookes : Containing the historie, and relation of the many provinces hereof. Continued out of approved authours

Richardson, Gabriel (1642)

An. Dom. 1627

Last leaf of Book XI (d2) and of Book XIV (Y4) blank. The separate paginations of each book have the following misnumberings: Book I, p.16 misnumbered 19; Book III, p.36 misnumbered 37; Book VI, pag...

More details


Archive Print Item

Travels through the Low countries : Germany, Italy and France, with curious observations, natural, topographical, moral, physiological, & c. Also, A catalogue of plants, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues (v.1)

Ray, John (1627-1705); Willughby, Francis (1635-1676)

1738

Vol. 1 was first issued 1673, as a separate work, under the title "Observations, topographical, moral, and physiological, made in a journey through part of the Low-countries, & c.," which here appears...

More details


Archive Print Item

Travels through the Low countries : Germany, Italy and France, with curious observations, natural, topographical, moral, physiological, & c. Also, A catalogue of plants, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues (v.2)

Ray, John (1627-1705); Willughby, Francis (1635-1676)

1738

Vol. 1 was first issued 1673, as a separate work, under the title "Observations, topographical, moral, and physiological, made in a journey through part of the Low-countries, & c.," which here appears...

More details