173 results filtered with: Voyages and travels

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Change of air or the pursuit of health and recreation. (Through France, Switzerland, Italy, &c.) illustrating the beneficial influence of bodily exercise, change of scene, pure air, and temporary relaxation in sickness and in health / by James Johnson.
James JohnsonDate: 1832- Journals
Le tour du monde : nouveau journal des voyages / publié sous la direction de M. Édouard Charton; et illustré par nos plus célèbres artistes.
Date: 1860-1914
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Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien : Inhaltende Warhafftige vnd vollkommene Beschreibungen aller west-indianischen Landschafften / Insulen / Königreichen vnd Provintzien / Seecusten / fliessenden vnd stehenden Wassern / Port vnd Anländungen / Gebürgen / Thälern / Stätt / Flecken vnd Wohnplätzen / zusampt der Natur vnd Eygenschafft dess Erdrichs / der Lufft / der Mineren vnd Metallen / der brennenden Vulcanen oder Schwefelbergen / der Siedenden vnd anderer heilsamen Quellen / wie auch der Thier / Vögel / Fisch vnd Gewürm in denselben / sampt andern wunderbaren Sreaturen vnd Miraculn der Natur / in diesem halben Theil dess Erdkreyes. Dess-gleichen gründlicher Bericht von der innwohner Beschaffenheit / Sitten / Qualitäten / Policey und Götzendienst / Leben vnd Wesen / barbarischer Unwissenheit vnd vnerhörter Grausankeit dess meisten Theils dieser wilden Leute / sampt Unterscheyd der Nationen / Sprachen vnd Gebräuchen. Item, historische vnd aussführliche Relation 38. fürnembster Schiffarten vnterschiedlicher Völcker in West-Indien / von der ersten Entdeckung durch Christophorum Columbum / in 150. Jahren / vollbracht / [Johann Ludwig Gottfried].
Johann Ludwig GottfriedDate: 1655
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Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian and Great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times. As also, many ... kingdomes in the Orientall India, and other parts of Asia; together with the adjacent Iles ... With a revivall of the first discoverer of America / [Sir Thomas Herbert].
Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st BaronetDate: 1638
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The fugitive holy family board a barge. Aquatint with etching after C. Ferri.
Ciro FerriReference: 22381i
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A new general collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language; comprehending everything remarkable in its kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
Date: 1745-1747- Books
Medici viaggiatori pugliesi del Cinquecento / Gianni Iacovelli.
Gianni IacovelliDate: 1989
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The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne : through Turky, into Persia and the East-Indies, for the space of forty years. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, viz. of the religion, government, customs, and commerce of every country; and the figures, weight, and value of the money currant all over Asia. To which is added, a new description of the seraglio / Made English by J. P. Added likewise, a voyage into the Indies, &c. By an English traveller, never before printed: Publish'd by Dr Daniel Cox.
Jean-Baptiste TavernierDate: 1677-78- Books
Adventures on the western coast of South America, and the interior of California : including a narrative of incidents at the Kingsmill Islands, New Ireland, New Britain, New Guinea, and other islands in the Pacific Ocean. With an account of the natural productions, and the manners and customs, in peace and war, of the various savage tribes visited / by John Coulter. In two volumes.
Coulter, John, M.D.Date: 1847
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Voyages et découvertes outre-mer au XIXe siècle / par Arthur Mangin ; illustrations par Durand-Brager.
Arthur ManginDate: 1880- Books
First Fleet surgeon : the voyage of Arthur Bowes Smyth / David Hill.
David HillDate: 2015- Books
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A voyage to the East-Indies : giving an account of the Isles of Madagascar, and Mascareigne, of Suratte, the coast of Malabar, of Goa, Gameron, Ormus : as also A treatise of the distempers peculiar to the eastern countries : to which is annexed an abstract of Monsieur de Rennefort's History of the East-Indies, with his propositions for the improvement of the East-India Company / written originally in French by Mr. Dellon.
Dellon, Gabriel, 1649- Relation d'un voyage des Indes Orientales. EnglishDate: 1698- Books
Out steppes the don : the diary of a visit to the USSR by an Asian professor / by C.C. De Silva.
C. C. De SilvaDate: 1966- Books
Food and drink and travelling accessories : essays in honour of Gösta Berg / edited by Alexander Fenton and Janken Myrdal.
Date: 1988- Books
Adventures on the western coast of South America, and the interior of California : including a narrative of incidents at the Kingsmill Islands, New Ireland, New Britain, New Guinea, and other islands in the Pacific Ocean. With an account of the natural productions, and the manners and customs, in peace and war, of the various savage tribes visited / by John Coulter. In two volumes.
Coulter, John, M.D.Date: 1847
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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 of 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. Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney ... Sir Erasmus Gower ... and of other gentlemen. In the several departments of the embassy. By Sir George Staunton.
Sir George Staunton, 1st BaronetDate: 1797
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Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / by Samuel Purchas.
Samuel PurchasDate: 1626- Books
The representations of the overseas world in the De Bry Collection of Voyages (1590-1634) / by Michiel van Groesen.
Michiel van GroesenDate: 2012- Pictures
Joseph saddles the donkey, preparing for the voyage back from Egypt. Engraving after J.D. van Hoey.
Hoey, Jan Dammerts van, 1545-1615.Reference: 22290i
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The Virgin Mary, pregnant with James, and Joseph voyage back from Egypt with the child Jesus. Engraving by L. Vorsterman the elder, 1620, after P.P. Rubens.
Peter Paul RubensDate: 1620Reference: 22313i- Books
Science in a sea of commerce : the journal of a South Seas trading venture (1825-27) / by Samuel Stutchbury ; edited, with an introduction and commentary by David Branagan.
Stutchbury, Samuel.Date: 1996- Books
Medicinisch-chirurgische Beobachtungen auf seinen Reisen durch England und Frankreich : besonders ueber die Spitäler / Johann Hunczovsky.
Hunczovsky, Johann, 1752-1798.Date: 1783- Books
Captain Cook and the South Pacific / [British Museum].
British MuseumDate: 1979- Books
Primo volvme delle navigatione et viaggi nel qval si contiene la descrittione dell'Africa, et del paese del Prete Ianni, con uarii uiaggi, dal Mar Rosso à Calicut, et infin all'isole Molucche, doue nascono le spetiere, et la nauigatione attorno il mondo. Li nomi de gli avttori, et le navigationi, et i viaggi piv particolarmente si mostrano nel foglio segvente / [Giovanni Battista Ramusio].
Giovanni Battista RamusioDate: 1550
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Accompanied by angels, the fugitive holy family board a barge to cross a river. Etching by A. Scacciati after P. Testa.
Pietro TestaDate: [1766]Reference: 22380i