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2.
- Creator:
- Robinson, Lilias Napier Rose
- Published / Created:
- [1884]
- Call Number:
- Zc72 884r
- Image Count:
- 27
- Publisher:
- [J. Martin & Son, Printers]
- Subject (Geographic):
- California, Nevada, and Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) --Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A short account of our trip to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, by L.N.R.R
3.
- Creator:
- Pantoja y Arriaga, Juan
- Published / Created:
- 1788
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-216
- Image Count:
- 62
- Abstract:
- Extract from a diary of the second mate on a Spanish voyage to explore the northern coast of California.
- Description:
- Juan Pantoja y Arriaga, second mate of the frigate la Princesa, one of two ships (the other, la Favorita)on a voyage headed by Ignacio Arteaga to discover a Northwest passage north of San Francisco in 1779. La Princesa was commanded by Juan Francis de la Bodega y Cuadra., Purchased from F. Perez de Velasco by Hiram Bingham in October 1922. Given to the library by Hiram Bingham., and Second work bound in a volume titled Tomo regio para el concilio provincial. For a full description of the volume, search by call number: WA MSS S-216.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration
- Subject (Name):
- Arteaga y Bazán, Ignacio, Favorita (frigate), Pantoja y Arriaga, Juan, and Princesa (Ship)
- Subject (Topic):
- Voyages and travels--History--19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Extracto del diario, 1788.
4.
- Creator:
- Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952
- Published / Created:
- 2003
- Call Number:
- 2010 19
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- "The following passages, taken from Norman Douglas's Old Calabria, chapter 36 (Memories of Gissing), were probably based on the writer's visit to that region in 1911 11, some eight years after Gissing's death. [signed by] A.A."--Prelim., "This opuscule, designed to accompany the Tragara Press edition of By the Ionian Sea, is limited to thirty copies hand-set in Perpetua type and printed on paper made by Amatruda of Amalfi"--Colophon., and Cover title.
- Publisher:
- Tragara Press
- Subject (Geographic):
- Calabria (Italy)--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952. Old Calabria, Gissing, George, 1857-1903--By the Ionian Sea, Gissing, George, 1857-1903--Homes and haunts--Italy, and Tragara Press
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gissing at Cotrone : a footnote / by Norman Douglas.
5.
- Creator:
- Poort, Willem Pieterse
- Published / Created:
- 1711
- Call Number:
- EKb 710
- Image Count:
- 27
- Description:
- Blanks not scanned.
- Publisher:
- Karel van Ryschooten
- Subject (Geographic):
- Greenland --Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Het Journaal en Daghregister van Dirk Jacobsz. Tayses avontuure-lyke Reyse na Groenlandt, gedaen met het Schip den Dam, in ’t Jaar 1710. Uytgegeeven en door den Druk gemeen gemaakt door W.P. Poort ...
6.
- Creator:
- Sánchez, Francisco Miguel, Fray
- Published / Created:
- 1789-1790
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 415
- Image Count:
- 92
- Abstract:
- The manuscript describes an 1789 Spanish expedition to the Northwest coast to determine the extent of Russian settlement and trade, as well as the activities of other nations in the region. Meetings with captains James Colnett, Robet Gray, William Douglas, and John Kendrick, and the seizure of the British ships Argonaut and Princess Royal, and the Portuguese ship Iphigenia, are recorded. The work also includes a vocabulary of the Nootka language and a description of the Nookta region and Indians.
- Description:
- Blanks not digitized., Contemporary copy., Fray Francisco Miguel Sánchez, a Franciscan from the College of San Fernado at San Blas, accompanied an 1789 expedition to Nootka Sound to establish a mission., Moused, with some loss of text., and The manuscript formerly belonged to Jose M. Linga. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nootka Sound (B.C.)--Description and travel and Northwest Coast of North America--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Douglas, William,--fl. 1789, Espi, José,--Fray, Flóres, Manuel Antonio de, Gray, Robert,--1755-1806, Kendrick, John,--ca. 1740-1794, Lopez de Haro, Gonzalo, Martínez, Esteban José,--1742-1798, Patero, Severo,--Fray, Sánchez, Francisco Miguel,--Fray, and Sosies, Lorenzo,--Fray
- Subject (Topic):
- Nootka Indians and Nootka language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historio Compuesta : de todo lo acaesido en la expediccion hecha al Puerto de Nuca año de 1789 / by Fray Francisco Sánchez, copied in another hand, 1790.
7.
- Call Number:
- EdLa 567p
- Collection Title:
- Itinerario di Marc’Antonio Pigafetta gentil’huomo Vicentino ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Account of a voyage in 1567 from Vienna to Constantinople, on a diplomatic mission from Emperor Maximilian II to Sultan Selim II.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Hungary --Foreign relations --Turkey, Turkey --Description and travel, and Turkey --Foreign relations --Hungary
- Collection Created:
- Londra : Appresso Giouanni Wolfio Inghilese, 1585
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Itinerario di Marc’Antonio Pigafetta gentil’huomo Vicentino ...
8.
- Creator:
- Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.
- Published / Created:
- 1677
- Call Number:
- 2009 2197
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Binder's title: Voyages dv Sr Tavernier. Unidentified armorial bookplate on volume 2 (Yale bookplate pasted over). Manuscript number on front paste-down endpaper: No. 31. Inscription at head of title: Tho. Vernon.
- Publisher:
- Gervais Clouzier [etc.],
- Subject (Geographic):
- India--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Iran--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., and Turkey--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Name):
- Vernon, Tho.--Autograph.
- Subject (Topic):
- Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier, ecuyer Baron d'Aubonne, qu'il a fait en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes, pendant l'espace de quarante ans, & par toutes les routes que l'on peut tenir: accompagnez d'observations particulieres sur la qualité, la religion, le gouvernment, les côutumes & le commerce de chaque pais; avec les figures, le poids, & la valeur des monnoyes qui y ont cours ...
9.
- Creator:
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
- Published / Created:
- 1651?]
- Call Number:
- Ih B132 +627h
- Image Count:
- 21
- Description:
- "Magnalia naturæ præcipve qvoad vsvs humanos": p. 21 [i.e. 35]-36. and With his Sylva sylvarum ... London, 1651.
- Subject (Topic):
- Utopias
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > New Atlantis. A VVorke unfinished. Written by the Right Honourable, Francis, Lord Verulam, viscount St. Alban.
10.
- Creator:
- Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de, 1666-1715?
- Published / Created:
- 1703
- Call Number:
- Egb 683g
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Alternative Title:
- Nouveaux voyages. English
- Description:
- "A short dictionary of the most universal language of the savages": v. 2, p. 287-302., Armorial bookplate: Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court in the county of Worcester Esqr., Bookseller's advertisements: vol. 2, p. [1] (3rd count)., Errata: v. 1, p. [24] (1st count)., Includes index at end of volume two., and Vol. 2 has title: New voyages to North-America. Giving a full account of the customs, commerce, religion, and strange opinions of the savages of that country. With political remarks upon the courts of Portugal and Denmark, and the present state of commerce of those countries ...
- Publisher:
- Printed for H. Bonwicke ..., T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, B. Tooke ..., and S. Manship ...,
- Subject (Geographic):
- Canada--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Canada--History--To 1763 (New France), Denmark--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., and Portugal--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Subject (Name):
- Foley, Thomas--Bookplate.
- Subject (Topic):
- Algonquian languages--Dictionaries--English., English language--Dictionaries--Algonquian., and Indians of North America--Canada--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > New voyages to North-America : containing an account of the several nations of that vast continent ... the several attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another ... and the various adventures between the French, and the Iroquese confederates of England, from 1683 to 1694 : a geographical description of Canada ... with remarks upon their government, and the interest of the English and French in their commerce : also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages ... with an account of the authors retreat to Portugal and Denmark ... to which is added, a dictionary of the Algonkine language, which is generally spoke in North America ... / written in French by the Baron Lahontan, Lord Lieutenant of the French colony at Placentia in Newfoundland, now in England ; done into English ... a great part of which never printed in the original.
