32 Titles tagged with "Description and travel"
  1. Commerce of the prairies :or, the journal of a Santa Fé trader, during eight expeditions across the great western prairies, and a residence of nearly nine years in northern Mexico.
    Publication Info: New York :H. G. Langley,1844.
    Tags: Description and travel  Indians of North America  Mexico  New Mexico  Santa Fe National Historic Trail  Southwest, New  West (U.S.)  
  2. Correspondence :Nicollet and Engelmann,
    Publication Info:
    Tags: (Joseph Nicolas),  1796-1843  1809-1884  1813-1890  Astronomy  Botany  Correspondence  Description and travel  Engelmann, George,  Fremont, John Charles,  Geology  Missouri River Valley  Nicollet, J. M  United States  
  3. Denkschrift über eine Reise nach Nord-Mexiko :verbunden mit der Expedition des Obersten Donniphan, in den Jahren 1846 und 1847 /von A. Wislizenus ; aus dem Englischen übertragen von George M. von Ross.
    Publication Info: Braunschweig [Brunswick] :F. Vieweg,1850.
    Tags: Botany  Description and travel  Doniphan's Expedition, 1846-1847  Kansas  Mexico  New Mexico  
  4. Exploration du territoire de l'Orégon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille,exécutée pendant les années 1840, 1841 et 1842 /par M. Duflot de Mofras.
    Publication Info: Paris :A. Bertrand,1844.
    Tags: California  Description and travel  History  Oregon  Pacific Coast  Pacific Coast (U.S.)  
  5. Explorations in the Dacota country, in the year 1855 /By Lieut. G. K. Warren, topographical engineer of the "Sioux expedition."
    Publication Info: Washington :A. O. P. Nicholson, Senate printer,1856.
    Tags: Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  United States  West (U.S.)  
  6. The gardens of Italy,by Charles Latham; with descriptions by E. March Phillipps.
    Publication Info: London,New York,Country life ltd., [etc.];Charles Scribner's Sons,1905.
    Tags: Architecture  Description and travel  Gardens  Italy  Landscape gardening  
  7. Journal de la navigation autour du globe, de la frégate La Thétis et de la corvette L'Espérance, pendant les années 1824, 1825 et 1826 :publié par ordre du roi sous les auspices du Département de la marine /par baron de Bougainville.
    Publication Info: Paris :A. Bertrand,1837.
    Tags: Description and travel  L'Espérance (Corvette)  Scientific Expeditions  South America  Thétis (Frigate)  Voyages around the world  
  8. A journey to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1839 /by F. A. Wislizenus, M. D. Tr. from the German, with a sketch of the author's life, by Frederick A. Wislizenus, esq.
    Publication Info: Saint Louis :Missouri historical society,1912.
    Tags: Description and travel  Indians of North America  Rocky Mountains  West (U.S.)  
  9. Memoir of a tour to northern Mexico :connected with Col. Doniphan's expedition, in 1846 and 1847 /by A. Wislizenus.
    Publication Info: Washington :Tippin & Streeper, printers,1848.
    Tags: Botany  Description and travel  Doniphan's Expedition, 1846-1847  Kansas  Mexico  New Mexico  
  10. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819-20-21-22 /by John Franklin.
    Publication Info: London :J. Murray,1824.
    Tags: Arctic regions  British  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Natural history  Northwest, Canadian  Scientific expeditions  
  11. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 /by John Franklin ... ; with an appendix on various subjects relating to science and natural history ; illustrated by numerous plates and maps.
    Publication Info: London :John Murray,1823.
    Tags: Arctic regions  British  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Natural history  Northwest, Canadian  Scientific expeditions  
  12. Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44 /By Brevet Captain J. C. Fremont . . . Reprinted from the official copy.
    Publication Info: New York,Phildelphia,D. Appleton & company;G. S. Appleton; [etc., etc.]1846.
    Tags: Description and travel  Pacific States  Rocky Mountains  West (U.S.)  
  13. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition.During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.By Charles Wilkes... In five volumes, with thirteen maps...
    Publication Info: Philadelphia,1849.
    Tags: (1838-1842)  Antarctica  Description and travel  Hawaii  Oceania  Oregon  South America  United States Exploring Expedition  
  14. A naturalist's wanderings in the Eastern archipelago :a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883 /by Henry O. Forbes ; With numerous illustrations from the author's sketches and descriptions by Mr. John B. Gibbs.
    Publication Info: New York :Harper & brothers,1885.
    Tags: Description and travel  Indonesia  Natural history  Plants  
  15. New tracks in North America :a journal of travel and adventure whilst engaged in the survey for a southern railroad to the Pacific ocean during 1867/8 /by W. A. Bell.
    Publication Info: London :Chapman and Hall,1869.
    Tags: Description and travel  Explorations and surveys  Indians of North America  Pacific railroads  Southwest, New  
  16. Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers [House Report: Ex. doc. no.: 41] /By Lieut. Col. W. H. Emory. made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the "Army of the "West"
    Publication Info: Washington :Wendell and Van Benthuysen,1848.
    Tags: Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Southwest, New  United States  
  17. Notes of a military reconnoissance :from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila rivers [Senate Report: Ex. doc. no.: 7] /By W. H. Emory, brevet-major, corps topographical engineers. Made in 1846-7, with the advanced guard of the "Army of the west."
    Publication Info: Washington :Wendell and Van Benthuysen, printer,1848.
    Tags: Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Southwest, New  United States  
  18. Notes taken during the expedition commanded by Capt. R. B. Marcy, U. S. A., through unexplored Texas, in the summer and fall of 1854 /By W. B. Parker...
    Publication Info: Philadelphia :Hayes & Zell,1856.
    Tags: 1812-1887  Description and travel  Indians of North America  Marcy, Randolph Barnes,  Texas  
  19. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with the United States and Mexican boundary commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 /By John Russell Bartlett, United States commissioner during that period ...
    Publication Info: New York and London :D. Appleton & company,1854.
    Tags: Boundaries  California  Chihuahua (Mexico : State)  Description and travel  Mexico  New Mexico  Sonora (Mexico : State)  Texas  United States  
  20. Reise durch die Wueste Atacama :auf Befehl der chilenischen Regierung im Sommer 1853-54 /unternommen und beschrieben von Rudolph Amandus Philippi.
    Publication Info: Halle :E. Anton,1860.
    Tags: Atacama Desert  Atacama Desert (Chile)  Chile  Description and travel  Natural history  Plants  
  21. Reise in Brasilien :auf Befehl Sr. Majestät Maximilian Joseph I., Königs von Baiern, in den Jahren 1817 bis 1820 gemacht und beschrieben /von Joh. Bapt. von Spix ... und Carl Friedr. Phil. von Martius.
    Publication Info: München,M. Lindauer,1823-31.
    Tags: Brazil  Description and travel  Economic conditions  Ethnology  Indians of South America  Mines and mineral resources  
  22. Relation d'un voyage du Levant :fait par ordre du Roy : contenant l'histoire ancienne & moderne de plusieurs isles de'l'Archipel, de Constantinople, des Côtes de la Mer Noire, de l'Armenie, de la Georgie, des frontières de Perse & de l'Asie Mineure ... /par M. Pitton de Tournefort ...
    Publication Info: Lyon :Chez Anisson et Posuel,1717.
    Tags: 1656-1708  Description and travel  Middle East  Natural history  Plants  Pre-Linnean works  Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de,  Travel literature  Voyages and travels  
  23. Report of an exploration of parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana in August and September, 1882 /made by Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, commanding the Military division of the Missouri, with the itinerary of Col. Jas. F. Gregory, and a geological and botanical report by W. H. Forwood.
    Publication Info: Washington :U.S. G.P.O.,1882.
    Tags: Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Idaho  Montana  Natural history  Plants  Rocky Mountains  United States  Wyoming  
  24. Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-'44 /by J.C. Frémont.
    Publication Info: Washington :Gales and Seaton, Printers,1845.
    Tags: Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  History  Pacific States  Rocky Mountains  To 1848  West (U.S.)  
  25. Report upon the Colorado River of the West :explored in 1857 and 1858 /by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, under the direction of the Office of explorations and surveys, A. A. Humphreys, Captain Topographical Engineers, in charge ; By order of the Secretary of War.
    Publication Info: Washington :Govt. Print. Off.,1861.
    Tags: Birds  Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Geology  Plants  Rocky Mountains  Southwest, New  United States  
  26. Three years' wanderings in the northern provinces of China,including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc.,by Robert Fortune.
    Publication Info: London,J. Murray,1847.
    Tags: China  Description and travel  
  27. A true & exact history of the island of Barbadoes :illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales. Together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the whole process of sugar-making ... All cut in copper /by Richard Ligon, gent.
    Publication Info: London :Printed, and are to be sold by Peter Parker ... and Thomas Guy ... ,1673.
    Tags: Barbados  Description and travel  Early works to 1800  Manufacture and refining  Natural history  Plants  Sugar  
  28. Voyage à Méroé, au fleuve Blanc:au-delà de Fâzoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennâr, à Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis, fait dans les années 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822 : accompagné de cartes géographiques, de planches représentant les monumens de ces contrées, avec des détails relatifs à l'état moderne et à l'histoire naturelle /par Fréderic Cailliaud.
    Publication Info: [Paris] :l'Imprimerie royale,1826-1827.
    Tags: Description and travel  Egypt  Meroe (Extinct city)  Natural history  Nile River  Nile River Region  
  29. Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale(le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, et 1833,V.e Levrault, 1835-47.par Alcide d'Orbigny. Paris, Pitois-Levrault et c.e; Strasbourg,
    Publication Info: Paris :Pitois-Levrault,1835-47.
    Tags: Botany  Description and travel  South America  
  30. Voyage dans l'Inde /par Victor Jacquemont, pendant les années 1828 à 1832 ; publié sous les auspices de M. Guizot, ministre de l'instruction publique.
    Publication Info: Paris :Firmin Didot frères,1841-44.
    Tags: China  Description and travel  India  Plants  Tibet  Tibet (China)  
  31. Voyage en Abyssinie dans les provinces du Tigré, du Samen et de l'Amhara,dédié à s. a. r. monseigneur le duc de Nemourspar mm. Ferret et Galinier ... Pub. par ordre du gouvernement.
    Publication Info: Paris,Paulin,1847-48.
    Tags: Description and travel  Ethiopia  Geology  Natural history  
  32. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica :with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd, an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved. In large copper-plates as big as the life /by Hans Sloane.
    Publication Info: London :Printed by B.M. for the author,1707-1725.
    Tags: 1707  Botany  Description and travel  Early works to 1800  England  Engravings  gmgpc  Jamaica  Natural history  Plants  Pre-Linnean  Pre-Linnean works