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Travel Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection)
17th-18th century
Manuscripts on European travel from the 17th-18th century. The collection predominently consists of travel diaries relating to tours taken in Europe throughout the period.
Diary of the adventures of a merchant captain in the Mediterranean, 1711-1715, compiled by George Aptall
Aptall, George
1715
Contains Captain George Aptall's personal account of his misadventures in the Eastern Mediterranean, signed by him on 17 October 1715.
Several letters of Mr William Hammond during his three years travells abroad, in France, Italy, Germany, & Holland, written by him unto his father Anthony Hammond Esquire, of Wilberton near Ely, herein inserted & transcrib'd after the same copys, as they were written by him, 1695.
Hammond, William
1695
Contains a transcription of 37 letters written by William Hammond to his parents between 1656 and 1658 concerning his travels in Europe.
Anonymous diary of an early eighteenth-century traveller through Europe.
1711-1712
Contains an account of a tour of Europe beginning in London on Friday, 29 June, 1711, continuing through the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Austria, and arriving in Hanover on 13 July, ...
Anonymous diary of an early eighteenth-century Englishman's travels through France, Belgium, and Holland.
1700
Contains an account of a tour of France, Belgium, and Holland from London, between Wednesday 1 May 1700 and Wednesday 25 September 1700, being incomplete at the end. The names of many public figures, ...
Arcana curiosa ex autoribus variis collecta |cby D. Disney Senr. 1743.
Disney, Daniel
1743
Also known as:Illustrated travels in France in 1743.
Diary of travels through Italy and France, compiled by Sir William Trumbull, 1664-1665.
Trumbull, William
1664-1670
The main body of the text is a diary in English of Sir William Trumbull's travels from Gravesend on 14 March 1664 through Italy to Rome and then through France as far as Avignon on the return journey ...
An abstract of a voyage from England to the Mediteranian : the diary of an anonymous English naval victualler, 1694-1696.
1694-1696
Contains the log of an anonymous English naval victualler on a voyage from Gravesend in England to Cadiz in the Mediterranean between 31 December 1694 and 29 October 1696.
Travells into Holland &c., an anonymous diary of an Englishman's tour of Holland, Belgium, and France during 1687.
1687
Contains an account of a seventeenth-century Englishman's tour from London on Thursday, 30 June, 1687 to Holland, Belgium, and France, arriving back in London on Tuesday, 22 November, 1687.
A journall of my voiage into Holland to fetch the Prince of Orange the 7th of October 1670, supposedly by Sir Edward Turnor
Turnor, Edward
1670
Contains a diary of Sir Edward Turnor's voyage to Holland in October 1670 to fetch William Prince of Orange on a visit to London.