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2.
- 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., BEIN Osborn fpc24 and BEIN 1973 +103: Large issue; v. 1-2 are 30 cm. tall, and v. 3 58 cm., BEIN 1985 139: Bookplate: Alford Book Club., BEIR Bj17 23: Bookplate of Frederick Wells Williams., The maps are on folded leaves., and Volume 3 is an atlas of plates.
- 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 ...
3.
- 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., BEIN Osborn fpc24 and BEIN 1973 +103: Large issue; v. 1-2 are 30 cm. tall, and v. 3 58 cm., BEIN 1985 139: Bookplate: Alford Book Club., BEIR Bj17 23: Bookplate of Frederick Wells Williams., The maps are on folded leaves., and Volume 3 is an atlas of plates.
- 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 ...
4.
- Creator:
- Baker, Anthony St. John, 1785-1854
- Published / Created:
- 1850
- Call Number:
- 2003 1141
- Container / Volume:
- 3
- Image Count:
- 257
- Description:
- BEIN 2003 1141: Imperfect: some plates wanting. Extra-illustrated. Autograph: Emily S. Baker, Elephanta Lodge, Preston Drove, Brighton. Bookplate of Paul Mellon., In English., Author determined from internal evidence. Cf. NUC pre-1956, v. 31, p. 230., and Pages [289]-298 are repeated in numbering.
- Publisher:
- Privately printed, T. Booker)
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States and Europe
- Subject (Name):
- Baker, Anthony St. John, 1785-1854
- Subject (Topic):
- Travel, Voyages and travels, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mémoires d'un voyageur qui se repose : with illustrations : in four parts
5.
- Creator:
- Baker, Anthony St. John, 1785-1854
- Published / Created:
- 1850
- Call Number:
- 2003 1141
- Container / Volume:
- 4
- Image Count:
- 201
- Description:
- BEIN 2003 1141: Imperfect: some plates wanting. Extra-illustrated. Autograph: Emily S. Baker, Elephanta Lodge, Preston Drove, Brighton. Bookplate of Paul Mellon., In English., Author determined from internal evidence. Cf. NUC pre-1956, v. 31, p. 230., and Pages [289]-298 are repeated in numbering.
- Publisher:
- Privately printed, T. Booker)
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States and Europe
- Subject (Name):
- Baker, Anthony St. John, 1785-1854
- Subject (Topic):
- Travel, Voyages and travels, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mémoires d'un voyageur qui se repose : with illustrations : in four parts
6.
- Creator:
- Mandeville, John, Sir
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1400-1425]
- Call Number:
- Takamiya MS 64
- Image Count:
- 256
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a Middle English copy of the "Defective Version" of the Book of Sir John Mandeville
- Alternative Title:
- Itinerarium. English
- Description:
- In Middle English., Four leaves preceding the Mandeville text contain numerous pen trials, a Latin prayer, medical advice organized by month, and a list of the archbishops of York. Two leaves following the text contain pen trials and Latin notes on the life of St. Wilfrid?., Layout: single columns of 20-23 lines., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: decorated border on opening leaf of text incorporating coat of arms of the Norton family of Yorkshire; a few initials in blue ink with red penwork., and Binding: contemporary light brown doeskin over wooden boards.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Mandeville, John, Sir.
- Subject (Topic):
- English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Voyages and travels
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sir John Mandeville's travels
7.
- Creator:
- Hurd, Isaac, 1782-1828, author
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-213
- Image Count:
- 124
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- The brig Lydia was on a fur trading voyage from Boston to the northwest coast of North America in 1804-05, Capt. Samuel Hill in command. Along with the log the volume contains an abstract from Joel Richardson's journal regarding the Atahualpa massacre, the 1805 log of the Atahualpa which sailed from the northwest coast to Canton, China, and the 1807 log of the Swift which sailed from Canton to New York
- Subject (Geographic):
- Northwest Coast of North America and Northwest Coast of North America.
- Subject (Name):
- Hill, Samuel. 1777-1825., Hurd, Isaac, 1782-1828., Richardson, Joel., Atahualpa (Ship), Lydia (Brig), and Swift (Ship)
- Subject (Topic):
- Fur trade, Massacres, Voyages and travels, History, and Seafaring life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Supercargo's log of the brig Lydia, 1804-1807
8.
- Creator:
- Mandeville, John, Sir
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1440]
- Call Number:
- Osborn a55
- Image Count:
- 156
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Middle English text of the Book of Sir John Mandeville, probably related to the "Defective Version." Biblical quotations in Middle English on f63v-f64v
- Alternative Title:
- Itinerarium. English
- Description:
- Sir John Mandeville is the suppositious author of the "travel" book known as the Book of Sir John Mandeville, or Mandeville's Travels. Written in the 14th century in Anglo-Norman French, it was widely popular and thought to be an accurate account of a knight's journey through Europe, the Middle East and Asia., In Middle English., Title supplied by cataloger., Annotation, in a later hand, on f1r: Sir John Mandevile's Travails., Script: cursive anglicana hand in brown ink; 32 lines per page., Side notes and notation marks in various hands, 15th-17th century., Opening illuminated initial with ivy-leaf sprays into margins and 17 blue initials with extensive red penwork flourishing. Three contemporary or near-contemporary marginal drawings, one with color wash, of manicula., and Binding: 18th-century full mottled calf, gilt. Spine label reads: Mandevil's travails.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Mandeville, John, Sir.
- Subject (Topic):
- English prose literature, Voyages and travels, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Sir John Mandeville's travels].
