Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 20 records

Total number of records: 20

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection8
English Literature4

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
voyages and travels20
black people2
discoveries in geography2
enslaved persons2
chapbooks, scottish1
mongols1
smoking paraphernalia1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
India2
Iran2
South America2
America1
Asia1
Europe1
Jerusalem1
Middle East1
Palestine1
Syria1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Astell, Mary (1668-1731)5
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)5
Campbell, John (1708-1775)4
Harris, John (1667?-1719)4
Adams, John Esq. of Waltham Abbey2
Barker, Robert2
Barker, Robert (1645)2
Bishop, George2
Bishop, George (1562-1611)2
Hakluyt, Richard (1552?-1616)2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15002
From 16005
From 170011
From 18001
From 19001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16997
Up to 179911
Up to 18991
Up to 19991

Archive Print Item

Relations historiques et curieuses de voyages, en Allemagne, Angleterre, Hollande, Boheme, Suisse, &c

Patin, Charles (1633-1693)

1674

Added engraved t.p. Sign.D3 wrongly signed D2.

More details


Archive Print Item

A voyage to South America : Describing at large, the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. Undertaken by command of the king of Spain (v.1)

Ulloa, Antonio de (1716-1795); Juan y Santacilla, Jorge (1713-1773); Adams, John Esq. of Waltham Abbey

1772

Written by Ulloa alone. First published, Madrid, 1748, under title: Relación histórica del viage a la América meridional. Jorge Juan's account of the scientific work of the expedition was publis...

More details


Archive Print Item

A voyage to South America : Describing at large, the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. Undertaken by command of the king of Spain (v.2)

Ulloa, Antonio de (1716-1795); Juan y Santacilla, Jorge (1713-1773); Adams, John Esq. of Waltham Abbey

1772

Written by Ulloa alone. First published, Madrid, 1748, under title: Relación histórica del viage a la América meridional. Jorge Juan's account of the scientific work of the expedition was publis...

More details


Archive Print Item

The travels and adventures of Wm. Lithgow, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, during nineteen years

[Between ca. 1840 and 1850?]

No. 122 of a series. (Number printed below imprint).

More details


Archive Print Item

Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum; in quo variarum gentium mores et instituta; insularum, regionum, vrbium situs, vnà ex prisci recentiorisq[ue] saeculi vsu : vnà cum euentis, quae auctori terrâ mariq[ue] acciderunt, dilucidè recensentur : accessit Synopsis Reipublicae Venet[ae]

Cootwijk, Johannes van (1629); Cootwijk, Johannes van (1629); Contarini, Gasparo (1483-1542)

1619

The presumed 2nd issue as described by BL, with ill. from p. 285 repeated on t.p. and ill. printed on p. 515. BL records 2 other issues (C233 and C235), the presumed 1st with printer's device on t.p. ...

More details


Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo : together with the travels of Nicolò de' Conti

Polo, Marco (1254-1323?); Conti, Niccolò de' (1395-1469); Ramusio, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557); Frampton, John (fl. 1577-1596); Penzer, N M (1892-1960); Argonaut Press

1929

"This edition... is the sixth publication of the Argonaut press and is limited to 1050 copies on Japon vellum, numbered 1 to 1050." With reproduction of t.-p. of original edition. Translated by Fr...

More details