Tag Archives: Travel

Relieving the distress’d travellers

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A fashionable couple walk on a country road past a cottage. A woman carrying a small child and carrying bags on her back approach them from behind and one of her small children on foot doffs his cap and reaches out his hand for alms. Another small child, also cap in hand, hangs onto his mother’s skirts. Also on the road, heading in the opposite direction is a wagon filled with recruits and soldiers and one woman holding onto a large trunk.

  • Title: Relieving the distress’d travellers [graphic].
  • Publication: [London] : Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St Paul’s Church Yard, London, [approximately 1812]
  • Manufacture: [printed 1812]

Catalog Record

812.00.00.130

Acquired September 2023

Sotheran’s York guide

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  • Author: Sotheran, Henry.
  • Title: Sotheran’s York guide : including a description of the public buildings, antiquities, &c. &c. in and about that ancient city. Illustrated with nine copperplates.
  • Publication: York : Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, for H. Sotheran, St. Helen’s-Square: Sold by R. Baldwin, Paternoster-Row, London; and by all the Book-Sellers in Town and Country, anno 1796.

Catalog Record

64 796 Y81

Acquired March 2023

Margate!!! : or sketches amply descriptive of that celebrated place…

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  • Author: Pilkington, Mrs. (Mary), 1766-1839.
  • Title: Margate!!! : or sketches amply descriptive of that celebrated place of resort, with its environs, and calculated to inculcate in the mind of youth a fondness for the productions nature and art. / by Mrs. Pilkington.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J. Harris, at the Juvenile Library, corner of St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1813.
  • Manufacture: [London] : H. Bryer, printer, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars, London.

Catalog Record

64 M33 813

Acquired May 2022

London, or, An abridgment of the celebrated Mr. Pennant’s description

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  • Author: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.
  • Title: London, or, An abridgment of the celebrated Mr. Pennant’s description of the British capital, and its environs. : Containing, An accurate, succinct, and interesting Account Of the most memorable Revolutions in Politics, Historical Events, Treasons, Fires, Public Executions, Remarkable Murders, and singular Robberies. Critical Observations on the public Buildings; a Review of their History; and a candid Examination of their Perfections and Defects. To which are prefixed, Notes, Additions, and Observations; and four capital plates. By Mr. John Wallis.
  • Publication: London : Printed for the editor and sold by W. Bentley, MDCCXC [1790]

Catalog Record

646 790 P37a

Acquired May 2022

The history of Prince Lee Boo

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  • Uniform Title: Prince Lee Boo.
  • Title: The history of Prince Lee Boo : son of Abba Thulle, King of the Pelew Islands : brought to England by Captain Wilson, commander of the Antelope, East India packet, which was wrecked off these islands, on her passage, from China, on the 9th, of August, 1783 : with an account of Lee Boo’s death : and he was buried in Rotherhithe Church-Yard, where a tomb is erected in his memory.
  • Publication: London : Printed for Thomas Hughes, 35, Ludgate Street, 1824.
  • Manufacture: [London] : Plummer and Brewis, Printers, Love Lane, Eastcheap)

Catalog Record

659 824P

Acquired July 2021

Journal of a tour through part of France, Flanders, and Holland

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  • Author: Stevenson, Seth William, 1784-1853, author.
  • Title: Journal of a tour through part of France, Flanders, and Holland : including a visit to Paris, and a walk over the field of Waterloo: made in the summer of 1816 / by Seth William Stevenson.
  • Publication: Norwich : Printed (not for sale) at the Norfolk Chronicle Press, by Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson, 1817.

Catalog Record

82 817St

Acquired May 2021

Letters from the island of Teneriffe, Brazil

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  • Author: Kindersley, Mrs., author.
  • Title: Letters from the island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies / by Mrs. Kindersley.
  • Publication: London : Printed for J. Nourse, in the Strand, bookseller to His Majesty, MDDCCLXXVII [1777]

Catalog Record

81 777K

Acquired August 2020

Instructive rambles extended in London

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  • Author: Helme, Elizabeth, -1814?, author.
  • Title: Instructive rambles extended in London, and the adjacent villages : designed to amuse the mind and improve the understanding of youth / by Elizabeth Helme … ; in two volumes.
  • Published: London : Printed by and for Sampson Low, Bewick-street, Soho : And sold by E. Newbery, St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1800.

Catalog Record

659 800H

Acquired July 2020

A sketch of modern France

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  • Author: Beaumont, Louise Elisa, 1751-1818, attributed name.
  • Title:A sketch of modern France : in a series of letters to a lady of fashion : written in the years 1796 and 1797, during a tour through France / by a Lady ; edited by C.L. Moody, LL.D. F.A.S.
  • Publication:London : Printed for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies in the Strand, 1798.

Catalog Record

82 798Sk

Acquired August 2020