"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
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
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
A man in Scottish dress kicks a bull as he cuts it with a knife crying, "Hoot! Damn yeen. Saul what de ye hoke for." Also pictured a abyssianian couple skin a lion. A sphynix with a confused look sits as a stream pours out from under his chair with a...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 3, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt, Ethiopia., and Nile River.
Subject (Name):
Bruce, James, 1730-1794
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Antiquities, Clothing & dress, Scottish, Bulls, Crabs, Crocodiles, Frogs, Lions, Monkeys, Tents, and Tourists
"[Stukeley] regularly attended meetings of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society, where he presented papers and 'curious' objects, often antiquarian or philosophical material resulting from the annual perambulations around the English ...
Alternative Title:
Itinerarium curiosum and Account of the antiquities and remarkable curiositys in nature or art
Description:
Engravings by Elisha Kirkall; after William Stukeley.
Postcard shows Edwin R. Monett and Charles Russell with the open 16-foot wooden boat they used to run the Colorado from Green River, Utah to Needles, California between September 20, 1907 and February 8, 1908
Alternative Title:
Russell & Monett 1907-1908 voyage
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc56 910Jo: In handwriting on recto at bottom of card: Russell & Monett 1907-1908 voyage. Verso of postcard filled out with address, note, and signature. Postmarked "Grand Canyon, Nov. 12 1910, Ariz."
'Captain Warre was sent by the Government on reconnaissance in case England should be at war with the United States. He was later knighted.' -Abbey p. 593.
Publisher:
Lithographed, printed and published by Dickinson & Co., 114, New Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
North America, Northwest, Canadian, Oregon, and Nord-Ouest canadien
Subject (Name):
Hudson's Bay Company.
Subject (Topic):
Indigenous peoples, Description and travel, Descriptions et voyages, and History
