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voyages and travels59
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Churchill, Awnsham (1728)8
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Travels and adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff

Wolff, Joseph (1795-1862); Gatty, Alfred (1813-1903)

1861

Edited by Alfred Gatty.

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Diary of the adventures of a merchant captain in the Mediterranean, 1711-1715, compiled by George Aptall

Aptall, George

1715

Contains Captain George Aptall's personal account of his misadventures in the Eastern Mediterranean, signed by him on 17 October 1715.

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Diary of travels through Italy and France, compiled by Sir William Trumbull, 1664-1665.

Trumbull, William

1664-1670

The main body of the text is a diary in English of Sir William Trumbull's travels from Gravesend on 14 March 1664 through Italy to Rome and then through France as far as Avignon on the return journey ...

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An abstract of a voyage from England to the Mediteranian : the diary of an anonymous English naval victualler, 1694-1696.
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An abstract of a voyage from England to the Mediteranian : the diary of an anonymous English naval victualler, 1694-1696.

1694-1696

Contains the log of an anonymous English naval victualler on a voyage from Gravesend in England to Cadiz in the Mediterranean between 31 December 1694 and 29 October 1696.

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Masaʻot shel Rabi Benyamīn = Itinerarium D. Beniaminis

Benjamin of Tudela; L'Empereur, Constantijn (1591-1648)

1633

Latin translation based on Friburg edition of 1583. Hebrew and Latin texts in parallel columns. Printer's mark: le Solitaire; headpiece; initials.

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Sir Victor Brooke, sportsman & naturalist; a memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and journals

Brooke, Sir Victor Alexander (1843-1890); Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832-1904)

1894

Includes index.

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Transatlantic rambles : or, A record of twelve months' travel in the United States, Cuba, & the Brazils

1851

"Originally appeared between March, '50, and March '51, in a country paper"--Page iv. Errata pages [viii].

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Travells into Holland &c., an anonymous diary of an Englishman's tour of Holland, Belgium, and France during 1687.

1687

Contains an account of a seventeenth-century Englishman's tour from London on Thursday, 30 June, 1687 to Holland, Belgium, and France, arriving back in London on Tuesday, 22 November, 1687.

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A journall of my voiage into Holland to fetch the Prince of Orange the 7th of October 1670, supposedly by Sir Edward Turnor

Turnor, Edward

1670

Contains a diary of Sir Edward Turnor's voyage to Holland in October 1670 to fetch William Prince of Orange on a visit to London.

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Catalogue of the library of S. Christie-Miller, Esq., Britwell, Bucks

Christie-Miller, Samuel (1811-1889)

1873-1876

Caption title: Britwell Library. Spine title: Britwell Library catalogue.

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