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Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson 7 Volume Set (Other)

First published between 1844 and 1846 this seven-volume collection of the letters of Lord Nelson (1758-1805) was assembled and edited by antiquarian historian and former naval lieutenant Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1799-1848) using letters supplied... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime The British Mariner s Directory and Guide to the Trade and Navigation of the Indian and China Seas (Paperback)

Henry Mathias Elmore (about whom little is known) was a sailor in the Royal Navy who quit in 1783 and set out for Calcutta to be involved with the East India Company s growing trade. Elmore worked as a commander on its ships and he decided to write... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exp Vocabulaire Francais Esquimau: Dialecte Des Tchiglit Des Bouches Du MacKenzie Et de L Anderson (Paperback)

French missionary Émile Petitot (1838-1916) was based in Canada s Northwest Territories for twelve years from 1862. He visited the Inuit people five times and became so well accepted that they called him Mr Petitot son of the Sun . Petitot believed... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Travel an Frozen Asia (Paperback)

Illustrated by a substantial map and recommended to nineteenth-century readers as a neat little volume this account of Siberia by Charles H. Eden (1839-1900) combines the conventions of a topographical study with detailed descriptions of flora and... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Classics The Letters of John B. S. Morritt of Rokeby (Paperback)

This works is an account by John Bacon Sawrey Morritt (1771-1843) traveller classical scholar and friend of Sir Walter Scott of his Grand Tour during the years 1794-6. His letters home were edited by G. E. Marindin (1841-1939) and published in 1914.... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery a A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery (Paperback)

This work by the anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp (1735-1813) brings together legal and historical documents as well as the author s own legal arguments demonstrating that slavery was illegal and therefore could not be upheld in England.... more

Cambridge Library Collection - The Nauti The Nautical Magazine for 1873 (Paperback)

The Nautical Magazine first appeared in 1832 and was published monthly well into the twenty-first century. It covers a wide range of subjects including navigation meteorology technology and safety. An important resource for maritime historians it... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptolog A History of Egypt (Paperback)

Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905 this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Latin Ame The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands (Paperback)

After the French and Indian War in which France and England had fought over the control of North America the French government decided to send an expedition to the Falkland Islands or Isles Malouines with a view to founding a colony where the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - The Nauti The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1868 (Paperback)

The Nautical Magazine first appeared in 1832 and was published monthly well into the twenty-first century. It covers a wide range of subjects including navigation meteorology technology and safety. An important resource for maritime historians it... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Naval Chronology - Volume 4 (Paperback)

Isaac Schomberg (1753-1813) had a controversial career in the Royal Navy. Although he distinguished himself at the relief of Gibraltar and the battles of St Kitts and the Saintes his aggressive temperament and scholarly interests meant he was a poor... more

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine: Notes on Military Hygiene for Officers of the Line: A Syllabus of Lectures Formerly Delivered at the U.S. Infantry and Cavalry School (Paperback)

For those engaged in military conflict at the end of the nineteenth century infection and disease were still as formidable enemies as the guns of an opposing army. Yet advances in sanitary science and understanding continued to help officers keep... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First: The First Series of the Hakluyt Society 1847-99 100 Volume Paperback Set (Other)

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series which ran from 1847 to 1899 consists of 100 books containing published or previously... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Classics Rudimenta Linguae Umbricae Et Rudimenta Linguae Oscae: Ex Inscriptionibus Antiquis Enodata (Paperback)

The philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775-1853) combined his career as a senior master at schools in Frankfurt and Hannover with the publication of school textbooks on German and Latin and academic research in ancient history and languages. He... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exp A Narrative of Arctic Discovery from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Paperback)

This 1850 account of the history of Arctic exploration was dedicated to Lady Franklin whose energy in spurring on expeditions in search of her husband and his two ships by then missing for five years was widely admired. John Shillinglaw (d.1862) a... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exp The Voyage of the Why Not? in the Antarctic (Paperback)

This 1911 publication translated from the French vividly describes the varied hardships and satisfactions of Antarctic exploration and scientific research in the early twentieth century. Son of the famed neurologist Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936)... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Technolog The Construction of Roads Paths and Sea Defences (Paperback)

Professionally dedicated to civil engineering and architecture Frank Latham became Penzance Borough Engineer and Surveyor in 1899 served as a captain in the Royal Engineers during the First World War and designed the famous Penzance lido for the... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeolo The Life and Labours in Art and Archaeology of George Petrie (Paperback)

The antiquary and artist George Petrie (1790-1866) was one of the founding fathers of Irish archaeology. Having trained since childhood with his painter father he began to travel around the country sketching landscapes monuments and ruins. He later... more

Travels in The Himalayan Provinces Of Hindu Stanand The Panjab In Ladakh And Kashmir; In Peshawar Kabul Kunduz Andbokhara Volume 2 Vols. Set

About the Book:-The author of this rare work has prepared the script of both the volumes in such a way that the readers will be kept in loop till the last moment. The History of Travel collection includes books from the British Library digitised by... more

Cambridge Library Collection - African S A Narrative of a Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa (Paperback)

James Backhouse (1794-1869) came from a family of accomplished naturalists and horticulturalists. As a Quaker he spent several years in Australia engaged in missionary and humanitarian work after which he returned to England via Mauritius and South... more

Cambridge Library Collection - History o Australia and New Zealand: Volume 2 (Paperback)

One of the most celebrated and prolific authors of the Victorian era Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was also an enthusiastic traveller. This two-volume work recounts his two-year journey across Britain s colonies in the Antipodes. First published in... more

Pre-Owned Life in the Middle Ages: Volume 1 & 2 Religion Folk-Lore and Superstition; Chronicles Science and Art (Paperback) 0521093996 9780521093996

Life in the Middle Ages will appeal to readers who want to get behind the generalizations of historians by reference to the raw material. This collection of documents covers a wide field. The topics range form clergy and laity saints and sinners to... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration: A Voyage to the South-Sea and Along the Coasts of Chili and Peru in the Years 1712 1713 and 1714 (Paperback)

The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amédée-François Frézier (1682-1773). In 1712 he was sent on a spying mission to the Spanish ports and fortifications of South America travelling along... more

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History 19: The Life of Mrs Jordan - 2 Volume Set (Paperback)

A playwright-turned-biographer s 1831 account of the extraordinary life of Dorothy Jordan celebrated actress and mistress of William Duke of Clarence. The actress Dorothy Jordan (1761-1816) contemporary of Sarah Siddons was born in London one of... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritual On the Threshold of the Unseen (Paperback)

In this 1917 publication English physicist Sir William Fletcher Barrett (1844-1925) purports to rescue psychical research from the scorn of his colleagues and provide indisputable evidence for the existence of psychic phenomena. A successful... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exp Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean: (Paperback)

John Ross had disappeared while exploring the Northwest Passage in 1829. A lieutenant in the Royal Navy George Back (1796-1878) had already served with John Franklin on two Arctic expeditions in 1819-22 and 1824-26. He volunteered to lead an... more

Cambridge Library Collection - British a Life of Octavia Hill (Paperback)

Octavia Hill (1838-1912) is today best remembered as one of the founders of the National Trust. However her involvement in education and social reform and particularly housing was a large part of her work. Shocked at the poverty and overcrowding she... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt F The Life and Acts of Don Alonzo Enriquez de Guzman: A Knight of Seville of the Order of Santiago A.D. 1518 to 1543: Tr (Paperback)

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series which ran from 1847 to 1899 consists of 100 books containing published or previously... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Music: Tonpsychologie: Volume 2 (Paperback)

The German polymath Carl Stumpf (1848-1936) influenced one of the most significant philosophical developments of the early twentieth century: his student Edmund Husserl founded modern phenomenology. In a distinguished academic career spanning more... more

Cambridge Library Collection - British & An Earnest Appeal for Mercy to the Children of the Poor (Paperback)

In eighteenth-century London abandoned children were one of the social groups most affected by the harsh living conditions. Several charitable initiatives had endeavoured to alleviate the problem not least the Foundling Hospital of which Jonas... more

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History 19 Reformatory Schools: For the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes and for Juvenile Offenders (Paperback)

Daughter of a Unitarian minister and schoolmaster the penal reformer and educationist Mary Carpenter (1807-77) grew up in a pious family with a strong sense of obligation to those who were less fortunate. Moved by the appalling circumstances of... more

Hill Collection: Holdings of the Lsu Libraries: A Girl s Life in New Orleans (Hardcover)

A Girl s Life in New Orleans presents the diary of Ella Grunewald an upper-middle-class teenager in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Grunewald the daughter of one of the Crescent City s leading music dealers used her journal to... more

Supplementary catalogue of the Wade collection of Chinese and Manchu books in the library of the University of Cambridge by Herbert A. Giles. Suppl Volume Suppl. (1915) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Language: English Volume: Suppl. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1915 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint.... more

A collection of letters statutes and other documents from the ms. Library of Corp. Christ. Coll. illustrative of the history of the University of Cambridge during the period of the Reformation

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1838 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Cambridge Library Collection - North Ame An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a Description of Its Geography Natural History an (Paperback)

Howard Stansbury (1806-63) trained as a civil engineer and became a major in the United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. He oversaw a number of construction projects and later had geographical features and plant and animal species named... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology Wanderings in South America the North-West of the United States and the Antilles in the Years 1812 1816 1820 and 1 (Paperback)

Although in the original preface to this work the British naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865) modestly says his book has little merit his account is a rich description of his experiences in South America and the Caribbean. Waterton managed his... more

Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exp A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage (Paperback)

The H.M.S. Investigator spent the years 1850-4 in the Western Arctic engaged in a search for the lost expedition of the explorer Sir John Franklin. In this 1857 publication Alexander Armstrong (1818-99) surgeon and naturalist to the ship gives a... more

Cambridge Library Collection - North Ame Minnesota and the Far West (Paperback)

Laurence Oliphant (1829-88) was a much-travelled British diplomat and writer. In the mid-nineteenth century between two stints in the Caucasus he spent several years in North America helped Lord Elgin negotiate a trade treaty between Canada and the... more