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1.
A Margate packet the effects of a squall, or a sudden shift of ballast / [graphic]

Published / Created:
Novr 6th, 1821.
Call Number:
821.11.06.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The crowded cabin tilts to the right, to the dismay of a family party dining at a table in the foreground. There is a second table in the background with a meal in progress. The cabin is bordered on left and right by two tiers of berths, apparently f...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Str., London
Subject (Geographic):
England, Margate (England), England., and Margate.
Subject (Topic):
Packets, Motion sickness, Ocean travel, Description and travel, Travel, and Vomiting
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A Margate packet the effects of a squall, or a sudden shift of ballast / [graphic]

2.
A descriptive sketch of the island of St. Helena : including its extent, climate, productions

Published / Created:
[1815]
Call Number:
File 64 Sa141 815+++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
A description of the island of Saint Helena, with twelve numbered points of interest keyed to the letterpress text below that appears on either side of the caption title. Below the title are two columns of text with detailed description of the topogra...
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Printed for J. and E. Wallis, 42, Skinner-Street, Snow-Hill; and J. Wallis, Jun., Marine Library, Sidmouth
Subject (Geographic):
Saint Helena
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel and Economic conditions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A descriptive sketch of the island of St. Helena : including its extent, climate, productions, population, government, means of defence, &c. &c.

3.
A geographical description of the world : on 32 cards ; embellished with the dresses of the various

Published / Created:
[1815?]
Call Number:
PLAYING CARDS GEN 397
Image Count:
35
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 133: Title label on case shaved with place of publication wanting. Formerly owned by Julia Parker Wightman. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, Asia, Europe, Africa, and America
Subject (Topic):
Playing Cards, Manners and customs, Clothing and dress, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A geographical description of the world : on 32 cards ; embellished with the dresses of the various nations

4.
An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China

Creator:
Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801
Published / Created:
1797.
Call Number:
1973 Folio 98
Image Count:
89
Description:
BEIN 1973 +103 and 1973 Folio 98: Bookplate of Frederick W. Williams.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
Subject (Geographic):
China, Great Britain, China., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Foreign relations, and Voyages and travels
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary : together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ...

5.
An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China

Creator:
Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801
Published / Created:
1797.
Call Number:
1973 +103
Image Count:
572
Description:
BEIN 1973 +103 and 1973 Folio 98: Bookplate of Frederick W. Williams.
Publisher:
Printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
Subject (Geographic):
China, Great Britain, China., and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Foreign relations, and Voyages and travels
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary : together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ...

6.
Lear in Sicily : twenty line drawings by Edward Lear illustrating a tour made in May-July 1847 in

Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888, artist
Published / Created:
1938.
Call Number:
1996 +41
Image Count:
34
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Errata slip tipped in, page 7.
Publisher:
Duckworth, 3 Henrietta Street, London, W.C. 2 and Printed in Great Britain by the Kemp Hall Press Ltd., in the City of Oxford
Subject (Geographic):
Italy, Sicily., and Sicily (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888 and Carysfort, John Joshua Proby, Earl of, 1823-1858.
Subject (Topic):
Travel, English wit and humor, Pictorial, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lear in Sicily : twenty line drawings by Edward Lear illustrating a tour made in May-July 1847 in the company of John Joshua Proby with a coloured frontispiece signed by both the travellers and a full introduction by Granville Proby

7.
Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile

Creator:
St. John, James Augustus, 1801-1875
Published / Created:
1848.
Call Number:
2006 Folio 78
Image Count:
139
Publisher:
J. Madden
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt and Egypt.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Ethnic costume
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Oriental album : characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile