BOOK
Title:
Ocean to ocean: Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872 : being a diary kept during a journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the expedition of the engineer-in-chief of the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial Railways
Creators:
Grant, George Monro, 1835-1902 | Desbarats, George Edouard, 1838-1893 | James Campbell & Son | Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle | Buckingham Books
Publication:
James Campbell & Son, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, Toronto, London, 1873.
Notes:
"Printed and stereotyped at the office of the Canadian Illustrated News, George E. Desbarats, Montreal."
Extent:
xiv, [2], 371 pages, 60 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Subjects:
View Subjects
Grant, George Monro, -- 1835-1902 -- Travel -- Canada |
Fleming, Sandford, -- 1827-1915 -- Travel -- Canada |
Fleming, Sandford, Sir, 1827-1915 |
Fleming, Sandford, 1827-1915 |
Grant, George Monro, 1835-1902 |
Canadian Pacific Railway Company |
Canadian Pacific Railway Company |
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- 19th century |
Overland journeys to the Pacific |
Voyages par terre jusqu'au Pacifique |
Overland journeys to the Pacific |
Travel |
Canada -- Description and travel |
Canada Description and travel |
Canada Descriptions et voyages |
Canada BOOK
Title:
Jonathan Carver's travels through America, 1766-1768: an eighteenth-century explorer's account of uncharted America
Publication:
Wiley, New York, c1993.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index.
Extent:
vi, 245 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836: describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. In three volumes
Creators:
Fitzroy, Robert, 1805-1865 | King, Philip Parker, 1793-1856 | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Colburn, Henry, -1855
Notes:
Half title (v. 1, 2, and 3): Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle. Caption title to v.3: Journal of Charles Darwin, M.A., naturalist to the Beagle. Vol. 3 was also separately issued in the same year under title: Journal of reseraches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. / By Charles Darwin, Esq., M.A.F.R.S. secretary to the Geological Society. Publisher's advertisements dated Aug. 1839, bound into some copies of the v. 2 appendix, specify "3 vols. 8vo", noting that vol. 1 was written by Captain P.P. King, with an appendix on magnetic observations by Major Sabine (printed on p. 497-528), and that vol. 2 was written by Captain Robert Fitzroy (also the editor of both vols.), with an appendix (which was issued separately bound); there is no mention of Darwin's volume, which appears elsewhere in the list under its separate title. In later advertisements the work is described as 2 vols., noting that "Mr. Darwin's journal ... may be had in a single volume". See Freeman, p. 34. Vol. 3 printed by Whiting, Beaufort House, London. Vol. 1: xxviii, [4], 597, [1] p., [19] leaves of plates (some folded); v. 2: xiv, [2], 694, [2] p., [27] leaves of plates (some folded); appendix to v. 2: viii, 352, [8] leaves of plates (some folded); v. 3: xiv, 629, [609]-615, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates. In each volume, two of the plates are folded and placed in front pockets. Errata: v. 1, p. [4] (second sequence); v. 2, p. viii. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Call #:
508.3 F58 1839 V. 1, V. 2, V.
Extent:
3 v. in 4 : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
A new survey of the West-Indies: being a journal of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America
Alt. Title:
English-American
Creators:
Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656 | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Furman, Gabriel, 1800-1854 | Vaughan, John, 1755-1841 | Nicholson, John, -approximately 1717 | Newborough, Thomas | Shadrockrock Rare Books | Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publication:
Printed by M. Clark for J. Nicolson ... and T. Newborough, London, 1699.
Notes:
The first edition published as: The English-American his travail by sea and land. Signatures: [superscript pi]B⁴ B-2H⁸ 2I⁸( -2I8). Both copies: several errors in paging, and numbers 385-386 omitted.
Extent:
[8], 477, [19] p. [1] folded plate : 1 map ; 20 cm. (8vo)
BOOK
Title:
A voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan: including an account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other islands ; and illustrated with thirty copper plates. : Performed in the Tartar Galley, belonging to the honourable East India Company, during the years 1774, 1775, and 1776
Creators:
Forrest, Thomas, 1729?-1802? | Scott, G., active 1775-1781 | Bell, John, 1745-1831 | Robson, James, 1733-1806 | Robinson, George, 1736-1801 | Donaldson, John, active 1763-1782 | Vivarès, François, 1709-1780 | Vivarès, Thomas, approximately 1735-approximately 1810 | Caldwall, James, 1739-1819 | Streeter, Frank S., 1918-2006 | Swann Auction Galleries
Publication:
Printed by G. Scott, and sold by J. Robson, New Bond street : J. Donaldson, Strand : G. Robinson, Paternoster row : and J. Bell, Edinburgh, London, MDCCLXXIX [1779]
Notes:
Signatures: [a]-c4 B-3C4 3D2, 2A-B4. Plates signed by Thomas Vivares, Frans. Vivares, J. Caldwall and others. Includes errata p. after xxiii. Maps watermarked with Strasburg bend. Includes bibliographical references.
Extent:
xxiii, [1], 388, 13, [3] pages, 27, [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm (4to)
BOOK
Title:
Deck and port; or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California: With sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco
Creators:
Colton, Walter, 1797-1851 | Valentine, Richard C. | Gutierrez, Fernando C. | A.S. Barnes & Co | H.W. Derby & Co | Sarony & Major | PBA Galleries
Publication:
A.S. Barnes & Burr, New York, 1850
Notes:
"Issue 2 has map and blank endpaper"--Howes. "A.S. Barnes & Company's publications.": pages [1]-[2]. "Stereotyped by Richard C. Valentine, New York. F.C. Gutierrez, Printer, No. 51 John-street, corner Dutch."--Title page verso. Illustrations include tinted lithographs by Sarony & Major.
Extent:
408 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portrait ; 19 cm