Titles
Authors
Subject
Map
Year
Names
About
Copyright
Now online
1,206
titles (books/journals)
5,648
volumes
2,296,490
pages
239,420
links to protologues
Recent additions
Botanicus News
Image download problem fixed
What is a JP2 file?
One million pages!
The Temple of Flora
An attempt at reprinting scanned material
New Changes in the Imaging Lab
Discovered Bibliography by Scientific Name
Index Pages - To tag or not to tag?
More JP2 tests
JP2 Samples for review
Happy Birthday Carl!
Browsing by Tag Cloud & Google Maps now available
Sheet Feed Scanning
Better citation resolving and other web site updates
LCSH, geotags & Google Maps mashup
14 hours in the life of Curtis's Botanical Magazine v.27-28
New items added daily, complete with RSS
Now serving from SQL Server 2005
Browse publication dates, titles, and authors
New search functionality implemented
PDF comparison with LuraDocument
List of authors with digitized titles
JPEG2000 images online for select titles
Creator links and rare books
A different view on prioritized titles
32 Titles tagged with "Description and travel"
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.)
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
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
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.)
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.)
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
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
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.)
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
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
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
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.)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.)
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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