Description and travel, Description and travel, G490 .M68 1809
By George, viscount Valentia ... Main Heritage Shelves General G490 .M68 1809 Book vol.3 Item-ID: i20240685 BIB-ID: 1025672 Also available in digital form... Show moreBy George, viscount Valentia ... Main Heritage Shelves General G490 .M68 1809 Book vol.3 Item-ID: i20240685 BIB-ID: 1025672 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Show less
[Pt. 1.] From the source to Egypt -- [Pt. 2.] The Nile in Egypt. translated by Mary H. Lindsay. Main Heritage Shelves General DT115 .L82 1936 Book Item... Show more[Pt. 1.] From the source to Egypt -- [Pt. 2.] The Nile in Egypt. translated by Mary H. Lindsay. Main Heritage Shelves General DT115 .L82 1936 Book Item-ID: i10214847 BIB-ID: 1023120 Show less
Description and travel, DS412 .I263 1819, 425.4 Ib5d
ex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar,... Show moreex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar, south-western India. Original Arabic text, edited with a Latin translation and annotations by the Jena oriental scholar and entomologist Johann Heinrich Gottfried Apetz (1794-1857), a student of L. G. Kosegarten, to whom this effort is dedicated. - Ibn Battuta's famous "Rihla" (literally, "The Journey") is considered one of the most significant Mediaeval eyewitness accounts of the Middle East. Over a period of thirty years, the Muslim Moroccan explorer Abu-‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Batutah (1304-77?) visited most of the known Islamic world, including North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East - a distance surpassing his near-contemporary Marco Polo. He journeyed more than 75,000 miles, a figure unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later, and is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. After returning home from his travels in 1354, Ibn Battuta dictated an account of his journeys to Ibn Juzayy, a scholar whom he had previously met in Granada. The account is the only source for Ibn Battuta's adventures. For centuries his book was obscure, even within the Muslim world, but in the early 19th century extracts were published in German and English based on manuscripts discovered in the Middle East, containing abridged versions of Ibn Juzayy's Arabic text. - Slight browning and duststaining; ownership "S. H. Lewin" (dated 1828) on t. p. Main Heritage Compact General DS412 .I263 1819 Book Item-ID: i16843642 BIB-ID: 1509208 Show less
par F. André Theuet d'Angovlesme. Initials. Main Heritage Shelves General DS47 .T44 1554 Book Item-ID: i23166903 BIB-ID: 2451686 Show morepar F. André Theuet d'Angovlesme. Initials. Main Heritage Shelves General DS47 .T44 1554 Book Item-ID: i23166903 BIB-ID: 2451686 Show less
Avctore, Christiano Adrichomio, Delpho. Main Heritage Shelves General DS109 .A37 1600 Book Item-ID: i2225559x BIB-ID: 2383959 Show moreAvctore, Christiano Adrichomio, Delpho. Main Heritage Shelves General DS109 .A37 1600 Book Item-ID: i2225559x BIB-ID: 2383959 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS47 .F44 1587
Note at end: Io Don Bartholomeo Dionigi da Fano, da un memoriale del soprascritto M. Cesare, ho cauato il presente viaggio, e fidelmente in questa... Show moreNote at end: Io Don Bartholomeo Dionigi da Fano, da un memoriale del soprascritto M. Cesare, ho cauato il presente viaggio, e fidelmente in questa forma disteso; che letto piu volte dall' istesso authore, come vero e fedele, ha voluto a commune delettalione & utile, al mondo publicarlo. Main Heritage Shelves General DS47 .F44 1587 Book Item-ID: i23166824 BIB-ID: 2451680 Show less
compilata da verissimi autori. Dal ven. p. frate Luigi Vulcano dalla Padula dell'Ordine minore osservante di S. Francesco. Main Heritage Shelves... Show morecompilata da verissimi autori. Dal ven. p. frate Luigi Vulcano dalla Padula dell'Ordine minore osservante di S. Francesco. Main Heritage Shelves General DS106 .V85 1563 Book Item-ID: i23299071 BIB-ID: 2425546 Show less
The German Dominican Burchard of Mount Sion wrote down his experiences while or after spending several years in the Holy Land before, during and... Show moreThe German Dominican Burchard of Mount Sion wrote down his experiences while or after spending several years in the Holy Land before, during and after 1283. His work became a late medieval popular success and his description, although little studied, is considered a key document that influenced theperception of Palestine in both text and image, in travel accounts and maps until far into the sixeenth century. This edition bears no illustrations nor maps of the region and it is preceded by a summary of contents followed by an index of terms of 48 unnumbered pages. accipe Borchardi. Main Heritage Shelves General DS106 .B87 1519 Book Item-ID: i21508756 BIB-ID: 1950295 Show less
Great Britain. Royal Air Force., Description and travel, Description and travel, UG635.G7 K44 1937
by C.H. Keith. Interesting account of a pilot's experience of the Arabian Gulf and Middle East from 1926-30, embellished with photographs and sketch... Show moreby C.H. Keith. Interesting account of a pilot's experience of the Arabian Gulf and Middle East from 1926-30, embellished with photographs and sketch maps. Chapter V focuses on the Arabian Gulf in particular, where the author visited Ras-al Khaimah, Umm-al-Quaim, Abu Dhabi, Dohar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Scarce in original green-and-black pictorial dustjacket. Main Heritage Shelves General UG635.G7 K44 1937 Book Item-ID: i16843721 BIB-ID: 1509218 Show less
in Lat. ling. conversi Joan. Floriano interpr. First Latin edition of this celebrated work on African geography by the Islamic scholar Hasan ben... Show morein Lat. ling. conversi Joan. Floriano interpr. First Latin edition of this celebrated work on African geography by the Islamic scholar Hasan ben Muhamed el-Wazzan-ez-Zayyati (1485-1552), better known under his Latin name Johannes Leo Africanus. His work long remained the principal source of information on the geography of Africa in general and the Sudan in particular. It is assumed that Leo wrote his description of Africa directly in Italian, though he certainly relied also on Arabic notes, some of which he might have composed while travelling in Northern Africa. The original Italian edition appeared in the famous series Navigationi et Viaggi, published at Venice in 1550 by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. The work was soon translated into Latin, French (1556), English (1600), and Dutch (1665). The present Latin edition of 1556, prepared by Johannes Florianus, rector of a grammar school in Antwerp, was widely used by European scholars until the late 19th century. - Some faint browning and foxing at places, ties lacking. Good copy of a classic work on African geography. Main Heritage Shelves General DT7 .L48 1556 Book Item-ID: i16862685 BIB-ID: 1509761 Show less
Belon DuMans, Pierre. Main Heritage Shelves General DS49 .B45 1555 Book Item-ID: i10134517 BIB-ID: 1015087 Microfiche. Wolfenbüttel : Herzog August... Show moreBelon DuMans, Pierre. Main Heritage Shelves General DS49 .B45 1555 Book Item-ID: i10134517 BIB-ID: 1015087 Microfiche. Wolfenbüttel : Herzog August Bibliothek, 1992. M: Lm 345 HAB Wolfenb⁹uttel de Show less
Main Heritage Shelves General DS48 .V55 1598 Book Item-ID: i23683739 BIB-ID: 2501898 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General DS48 .V55 1598 Book Item-ID: i23683739 BIB-ID: 2501898 Show less
Sessa's device below colophon. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .M36 1521 Book Item-ID: i10117453 BIB-ID: 1013381 Show moreSessa's device below colophon. Main Heritage Shelves General DT54 .M36 1521 Book Item-ID: i10117453 BIB-ID: 1013381 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DS207 .B58 1880
Account of a journey made by Blunt and his wife, Lady Anne, in the winter of 1878. The Blunts travelled in the company of Mohammed Ibn Aruk, a... Show moreAccount of a journey made by Blunt and his wife, Lady Anne, in the winter of 1878. The Blunts travelled in the company of Mohammed Ibn Aruk, a friend they had made in Palmyra whose family descended from a Nejd tribe. Mohammed wished to return to Nejd in order to find a wife and the Blunts seized the opportunity of accompanying him. The description of their journey is highly detailed, with details of villages they visited, careful topographical description, observations on local custom, descriptions of wildlife and an account the stud of Arab horses belonging to ibn Rashid, the reigning Emir of Hail. The account is followed by a transcript of a discussion that followed Blunt's presentation to the Royal Geographical Society. It includes observations by Sir Lewis Pelly, Mr Blanford and Sir H. Rawlinson. - The maps show Northern and Central Arabia (with the travel route taken by the Blunts) and a detailed sketch map of Jebel Shammar. by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Detached from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, vol. 2, no. 2. Main Heritage Compact General DS207 .B58 1880 Book Item-ID: i16598787 BIB-ID: 1494599 Show less
Main Heritage Shelves General DS109 .Z83 1587 Book Item-ID: i1564229x BIB-ID: 1012197 Show moreMain Heritage Shelves General DS109 .Z83 1587 Book Item-ID: i1564229x BIB-ID: 1012197 Show less
Fabri was a German Dominican, made two pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The first in 1480 and the second in 1483- 84 as chaplain of four German barons... Show moreFabri was a German Dominican, made two pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The first in 1480 and the second in 1483- 84 as chaplain of four German barons, whose Truchsen Johannes von Waldburg who accompanied Breydenbach. It was at their request that he wrote in German a short narrative of their pilgrimage, that it was first composed in Latin. The itinerary of Fabri, with those Breydenbach Suriano 1483 and 1485 are considered the most comprehensive and most complete of the Middle Ages. Felix Fabri. Signatures: A⁴-Z⁴,a⁴-z⁴, Aa⁴-Ii⁴. Has catchword. Ex-libris stamp on the pastedown. Woodcuts in title page frame. Main Heritage Shelves General DS109 .F33 1556 Book Item-ID: i21697243 BIB-ID: 2152030 Show less
auctore Brocardo Monacho ... ; De Nouis Insulis nuper repertis, & de moribus incolarum earundem per Petrum Martyrum, etc. Main Heritage Shelves General ... Show moreauctore Brocardo Monacho ... ; De Nouis Insulis nuper repertis, & de moribus incolarum earundem per Petrum Martyrum, etc. Main Heritage Shelves General DS109 .B83 1536 Book Item-ID: i21956662 BIB-ID: 2346548 Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DT90 .C37 1925, 916.1 C295
by Frank G. Carpenter. Main Heritage Shelves General DT90 .C37 1925 Book Item-ID: i10094799 BIB-ID: 1011115 Includes bibliographical references (p. 267... Show moreby Frank G. Carpenter. Main Heritage Shelves General DT90 .C37 1925 Book Item-ID: i10094799 BIB-ID: 1011115 Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269). Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, DT365 .O97 1833
performed in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta, under the direction of Captain W.F.W. Owen. Edited by Heaton Bowstead Robinson. Main Heritage Shelves... Show moreperformed in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta, under the direction of Captain W.F.W. Owen. Edited by Heaton Bowstead Robinson. Main Heritage Shelves General DT365 .O97 1833 Book vol. 1 Item-ID: i15799475 BIB-ID: 2523364 Also issued online. Show less
Description and travel, DT553.M2 D82 1937, 916.612
by Odette du Puigaudeau. "Translated from the French, Pieds nus à travers la Mauritanie, by Geoffrey Sainsbury." Main Heritage Shelves General DT553... Show moreby Odette du Puigaudeau. "Translated from the French, Pieds nus à travers la Mauritanie, by Geoffrey Sainsbury." Main Heritage Shelves General DT553.M2 D82 1937 Book Item-ID: i10063894 BIB-ID: 1008025 Show less