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BOOK

Title:  
Tour on the continent, 1765
Creators:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798 | De Beer, GavinSir, 1899-1972
Publication:
Printed for the Ray Society, London, 1948.
Notes:  
Includes index. Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:  
914 P38T
Extent:
xii, 178 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., front. ; 23 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
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
Creator:
Ray, John, 1627-1705
Publication:
Printed for J. Martyn, London, 1673.
Notes:  
Issued in 1738 as vol. 1 of the author's Travels through the Low-countries. The "Catalogue of plants" written in Latin, with added t.p. Readex Microprint edition. The "Catalogue of plants" is in Latin, and has special title-page: Catalogus stirpium in exteris regionibus. A nobis observatorum, quae vel non omnino vel parcè admodum in Anglia sponte proveniunt. Londini: J. Martyn, 1673.
Call #:  
LMK
Extent:
Front., [8] p.., 499 p.; [1] p.., [5] p., 113 p. : Front. (port.) added, pls. (part fold.)



BOOK

Title:  
The flowers of modern travels: being elegant, entertaining, and instructive extracts selected from the works of the most celebrated travellers; such as, Lord Lyttleton, Sir W. Hamilton, Baron de Tott, Dr. Johnson ... Intended chiefly for young people of both sexes
Creator:
Adams, John, 1750?-1814
Publication:
Printed for C. and G. Kearsley, at Johnson's Head, no. 46, Fleet Street, London, 1792.
Notes:  
Publisher's advertisements: [3] pages at end of v.2. Edition statement transposed from head of title. Not recorded in ESTC (RLIN)
Call #:  
VGN 914 AD1F.3C V.1-2
Extent:
2 v. (vi, [1], 8-372; viii, [1], 10-321, [3] p.) ; 18 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
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
Creators:
Ray, John, 1627-1705 | Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672
Publication:
Printed for J. Martyn, London, 1673.
Notes:  
Issued in 1738 as vol. 1 of the author's Travels through the Low-countries. The "Catalogue of plants" is in Latin and has special t.p., although signatures are continuous. Manuscript notes in the last three leaves of this volume contain a geographical index.
Call #:  
581.940 R21
Extent:
[16], 499, [6], 115 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. ; 18 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
The journal of Dr. John Morgan, of Philadelphia, from the city of Rome to the city of London, 1764: together with a fragment of a journal written at Rome, 1764, and a biographical sketch
Creators:
Morgan, John, 1735-1789 | Watson, D. T. (David Thompson), 1844-1916 | J.B. Lippincott Company | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, MDCCCCVII [1907]
Notes:  
"Of this volume one hundred and sixty-five copies have been printed."
Call #:  
B M82 c.1
Extent:
258 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm



BOOK

Title:  
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &c: in the years 1720, 1721, and 1722
Creator:
Wright, Edward.
Publication:
Printed for T. Ward and E. Wicksteed, London, 1730.
Notes:  
Includes index and addenda at the end of vol. 2. Title on spine: Wright's travels.
Call #:  
914.5 W93
Extent:
2 v. : ill., plates ; 26 cm.



BOOK

Title:  
Travels through different cities of Germany, Italy, Greece and several parts of Asia as far as the banks of the Euphrates: in a series of letters. Containing, an account of what is most remarkable in their present state, as well as in their monuments of antiquity
Creator:
Drummond, Alexander, d. 1769
Publication:
Printed by W. Strahan for the author, London, MDCCLIV. [1754]
Notes:  
Horizontal chain lines. "Thermometer table at Larnica [and at Aleppo]" p. 295-311. Frontispiece and plates engraved by J. S. Mueller. Last page blank.
Call #:  
VGN 915.6 D84T
Extent:
[4], 311, [1] p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 39 cm. (fol.)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1749-1788
Abstract:  

Nine of these letters are addressed to Sir Alexander Dick of Edinburgh (1763-1768), and relate to Morgan's medical studies, his travels on the Continent, and the founding of the medical department of the College of Physicians. These are copies of originals in possession of Mrs. Dick Cunyngham, Prestonfield House, Edinburgh. In addition there are letters from Morgan to: Petrus Camper, William Smith, Samuel Vaughan, Jr.; and from Peter Collinson to Camper; Camper to Morgan; S. Vaughan Jr. to Camper; and an exchange between Christian F. Michaelis and Camper. These concern Morgan, with mentions of fossils (mastodon bones in America), natural history, comments on Franklin, Jefferson, and Angelica Kauffmann. These are from originals in the Petrus Camper Papers, on deposit (1976) at the University of Amsterdam Library.
Call #:  
Mss.B.M82
Extent:
26 item(s)



BOOK

Title:
Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain: Giving a ... description of the present state of those countries; their natural, literary, and political history; manners, laws, commerce, ... painting, sculpture, architecture, coins, antiquities, ... : Illustrated with copper-plates, engraved
Alt. Title:  
Nehueste reisen durch deutchland. English  
Creator:
Keyssler, Johann Georg, 1693-1743
Publication:
Printed for A. Linde, bookseller to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, in Catherine-Street in the Strand; and T. Field, at the Wheat-sheaf, the corner of Pater-Noster-Row, Cheapside, London, MDCCLVI-MDCCLVII. [1756-1757]
Notes:  
Edition statement transposed from following statement of responsibility. Cf. ESTC (RLIN) T201105 and ESTC (RLIN) T089052 Translation of: Neueste Reise durch Teuschland, Böhmen, Ungarn, die Schweiz, Italien und Lothringen.... Vols. 2-4 have imprint date of 1757. First published Hannover [Germany] in 1740, 2nd German ed. in 1751.
Call #:  
VGN 914 K52N.2G V.1-4
Extent:
4 v., [8] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill., map ; 27 cm. (4to)