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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 :Baird (Spencer) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
1800-1889
1809-1884
1823-1887
Baird, Spencer Fullerton,
Bering Strait
Book industries and trade
Botanical specimens
California, Northern
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Letters
Prints
Reptiles
Shaw, Henry,
Smithsonian Institution
Technique
Transportation
Correspondence :Bandelier (Adolph) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
1809-1884
1840-1914
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse,
Botanical specimens
Cactaceae
Climate
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Excavations (Archaeology)
Highland (Ill.)
Letters
Observations
Receipts (Acknowledgments)
Veracruz-Llave (Mexico : State)
Correspondence :Boissier (Edmond) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Friedrich),
(Georg),
(Georges François),
1805-1860
1805-1872
1805-1877
1806-1893
1809-1884
1810-1885
1810-1888
1823-1866
Boissier, Edmond,
Braun, Alexander,
Candolle, Alphonse de,
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Euphorbiaceae
Gray, Asa,
Klotzsch, Fr
Letters
London (England)
Mettenius, G
Paris (France)
Receipts (Acknowledgments)
Reuter, G. F
Correspondence :Bolander (Henry) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
Araceae
Botanical specimens
Botanists
Bryophyta
California
Callitrichaceae
Catalogs
Chara
Characeae
Coniferae
Correspondence
Cupressaceae
Cyperaceae
Description and travel
East (U.S.)
Europe
Gramineae
Guatemala
Isoetaceae
Juncaceae
Lenormand, Sébastien René,
Letters
Liliaceae
Maps
Marsileaceae
Nymphaeaceae
Pinaceae
Plants
Ranunculaceae
Selaginellaceae
Umbelliferae
Yosemite Valley
Yucca
Correspondence :Buchinger (Jean) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Frédéric Albert Constantin),
1803-1888
1809-1884
1830-1903
1839-
Buchinger, Jean Daniel
Cactaceae
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
France
Kalmbacher, Melanie,
Letters
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (France)
Travel
Weber, F. A. C
Correspondence :Buckley (Samuel) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Benjamin Franklin),
(Moses Ashley),
(Samuel Botsford),
(William Marbury),
1794-1863
1802-1879
1808-1872
1809-1857
1809-1884
1811-1848
1820-1869
Botanical specimens
Buckley, S. B
Carpenter, W. M
Collection and preservation
Convovulaceae
Correspondence
Cruciferae
Curtis, M. A
Cuscuta
Description and travel
Draba
Duerinck, Jean-Baptiste,
Engelmann, George,
Fossils
Letters
Lindheimer, Ferdinand,
Missouri
Rare plants
Rocky Mountains
Saint Louis
Shells
Short, Charles Wilkins,
Shumard, B. F
Texas
Travel
Vitaceae
Vitis
Correspondence :Egloffstein (Frederick) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
1809-1884
1813-1890
1824-1885
19th century
Congress
Correspondence
Description and travel
Egloffstein, F. W.,
Engelmann, George,
Frémont, John Charles,
Landscape painting, American
Letters
Political activity
Politics and government
United States
Washington (D.C.)
Correspondence :Fendler (Augustus) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
1797-1878
1803-1873
1805-1877
1809-1884
1810-1888
1813-1883
1817-1886
1818-1887
1826-1901
1842-1923
Adventure travel
Albertus-Universität zu Königsberg i. Pr
Arkansas
Army
Botanical specimens
Braun, Alexander,
Cactaceae
Caracas (Venezuela)
Caspary, Robert,
Cereus peruvianus
Collection and preservation
Colonia Tovar (Aragua, Venezuela)
Compositae
Correspondence
Description and travel
Economic aspects
Engelmann, George,
Equipment and supplies
Europe
Fagaceae
Fendler, Augustus,
Finance, Personal
Gray, Asa,
Growth
Helianthus
Henry, Joseph,
Letters
Liliaceae
Matches
Meehan, Thomas,
Meteorology
Observations
Oenothera
Onagraceae
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Plants
Pollination
Prestoe, Henry,
Quercus
Social life and customs
Sullivant, William Starling,
Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuckerman, Edward,
United States
Venezuela
Yucca
Correspondence :Gillman (Henry) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Coe Finch),
(Henry Parker),
(John Milton),
(Stephen Thayer),
1792-1867
1804-1878
1805-1886
1807-1873
1809-1884
1810-1888
1812-1878
1823-1891
1831-1880
1833-1915
Agassiz, Louis,
Antiquities
Austin, C. F
Bigelow, John M
Boott, William,
Botanical specimens
Cactaceae
Correspondence
Description and travel
Ecology
Engelmann, George,
Florida
Gillman, Henry,
Gray, Asa,
Growth
Growth (Plants)
Identification
Isle Royale (Mich.)
Leidy, Joseph,
Letters
Michigan
Mississippi
New Madrid (Mo.)
Olney, Stephen T
Politics and government
Sartwell, H. P
Correspondence :Gray (Asa) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(1838-1842)
(Albert),
(Charles Horton),
(Cyrus Guernsey),
(Frederick Adolph),
(George Julius),
(George Lincoln),
(Heinrich Karl Daniel),
(Henry Nicholas),
(John Milton),
(Joseph Nicolas),
(Samuel Botsford),
(Stephen Thayer),
(William Hemsley),
(William Henry),
1748-1836
1750-1816
1786-1859
1791-1858
1796-1843
1796-1862
1796-1873
1797-1888
1799-1848
1799-1865
1800-1889
1802-1867
1804-1849
1804-1863
1804-1878
1805-1877
1805-1886
1806-1850
1806-1893
1807-1873
1809-1853
1809-1865
1809-1882
1809-1884
1810-1888
1810-1889
1811-1866
1811-1885
1811-1887
1812-1878
1813-1883
1813-1887
1813-1890
1815-1885
1815-1895
1816-1877
1817-1875
1817-1886
1822-1882
1823-1888
1825-1896
1826-1876
1826-1892
1831-1897
1833-1917
1834-1895
1838-1911
1839-1922
1839-1923
1841-1904
1841-1927
1843-1915
1847-1903
1848-1935
1857
19th century
Abies
Agassiz, Louis,
Araceae
Asclepiadaceae
Asclepias
Bigelow, John M
Bignoniaceae
Bolander, Henry N
Boott, William,
Botanical specimens
Braun, Alexander,
Brunet, Ovide,
Buckley, S. B
Cactaceae
Callitrich
Correspondence :Gray and Engelmann,
Publication Info:
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(1838-1842)
(William Henry),
1750-1816
1791-1858
1797-1888
1800-1889
1809-1884
1810-1888
1811-1866
1811-1885
1813-1883
1863-1869
Cactaceae
Callitrichaceae
Callitriche
Compositae
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Europe
Fagaceae
Fendler, Augustus,
German Emperor,
Gray, Asa,
Harvey, William H
I,
Isoetaceae
Isoetes
Juncaceae
Juncus
Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich,
Nuphar
Nymphaeaceae
Pinaceae
Pinus
Plants
Quercus
Saint Louis (Mo.)
Shaw, Henry,
Sprengel, Christian Konrad,
Succulent plants
United States
United States Exploring Expedition
Vitaceae
Vitis
William
Wright, Charles,
Correspondence :Gray and Engelmann,
Publication Info:
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(Cyrus Guernsey),
(George Lincoln),
1809-1884
1810-1888
1838-1911
1839-1923
1841-1927
1843-1915
Abies
Araceae
Aster
Asteraceae
Bignoniaceae
Catalpa
Compositae
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Erigeron
Europe
Fir
Goodale, George L
Gray, Asa,
Greene, Edward Lee,
Lemna
Lemnaceae
Missouri
Pinaceae
Plants
Pringle, Cyrus G
Sargent, Charles Sprague,
Solidago
United States
Wine and wine making
Correspondence :Hall (James) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Ferdinand Vandeveer),
1809-1884
1811-1898
1823-1887
1829-1887
Baird, Spencer Fullerton,
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Explorers
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territor
Geological surveys
Hall, James,
Hayden, F. V
Letters
West (U.S.)
Correspondence :Hilgard (Eugene) to Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Benjamin Franklin),
(Eugene Woldemar),
(Theodore Charles),
1806-1889
1807-1882
1808-1864
1809-1882
1809-1884
1820-1869
1828-1875
1833-1916
1848-1895
Abies
Academy of Science of St. Louis
Aristolochia
Aristolochiaceae
Correspondence
Darwin, Charles,
Decaisne, Joseph,
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Europe
Hilgard, Eugene W
Hilgard, Theod. C
Juniperus
Labor
Lesquereux, Leo,
Letters
Magnolia
Magnoliaceae
Mississippi River Commission
Pinaceae
Pinus
Scheele, Adolf,
Schultze, Paul
Shumard, B. F
United States
Verbena
Verbenaceae
Vitaceae
Vitis
West (U.S.)
Correspondence :Hitchcock (George) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(George N.),
1809-1884
18751843-1907
Agave
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Hitchcock, G. N
Letters
Liliaceae
Mescal
Mexico
Transaction of the Academy of Science of St. Louis
Utilization
Correspondence :Lemmon (John) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Albert),
(Carl Robert),
(Charles Christopher),
(Cyrus Guernsey),
(Henry Nicholas),
(John Frederick),
(John Gill),
(Michael Schuck),
(Sara Allen Plummer),
(William George Washington),
(William Greenwood),
1809-1884
1810-1881
1810-1888
1813-1873
1813-1887
1815-1874
1817-1911
1822-1893
1823-1890
1825-1911
1826-1892
1828-1894
1828-1906
1828-1910
1829-1911
1830-1912
1831-1897
1832-1908
1833-1895
1836-1923
1838-1911
1838-1914
1843-1915
Abies
Arceuthobium
Arizona
Bebb, M. S
Biography
Bolander, Henry N
Botanical specimens
Brewer, William Henry,
California, Southern
Case, Francis M
Chiricahua Indians
Collectors and collecting
Compositae
Coniferae
Correspondence
Cupressaceae
Cupressus
Description and travel
Ecology
Engelmann, George,
Fagaceae
Ford, Henry Chapman,
Fort Grant (Ariz.)
Gentiana
Gentianaceae
Gordon, Alexander,
Gray, Asa,
Greene, Edward Lee,
Harford, W. G. W
Hooker, Joseph Dalton,
Kellogg, A
Lemmon, J. G
Lemmon, S. A. P
Letters
Loranthaceae
Mexico, North
Morse, John F
Muir, John,
Osten-Sacken, C. R
Palmer,
Correspondence :Ludecus (Eduard) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
1809-1884
1865-1877
Breeding
Canaries
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Letters
Ludecus, Eduard
Mexico, North
Politics and government
Southwestern States
United States
Correspondence :Martindale (Isaac) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Charles Christopher),
(Charles Horton),
(George Brown),
1802-1879
1809-1884
1810-1888
1817-1911
1820-1883
1822-1898
1823-1890
1826-1892
1826-1901
1829-1911
1831-1904
1833-1917
1841-1927
1842-1893
1851-1896
1878
Boltonia
Botanical specimens
Bush, Isidor,
Cactaceae
Canby, William Marriott,
Carya
Collection and preservation
Colorado
Compositae
Correspondence
Description and travel
Diseases and pests
Engelmann, George,
Euphorbia
Euphorbiaceae
Fagaceae
Goode, G. Brown
Gray, Asa,
Hooker, Joseph Dalton,
Isoetaceae
Isoetes
Juglandaceae
Juncaceae
Juncus
Letters
Lindheimer, Ferdinand,
Martindale, Isaac C.,
Meehan, Thomas,
New Jersey
Opuntia
Palmer, Edward,
Parker, Charles F
Parry, C. C
Peck, Charles H
Pinaceae
Pinus
Plants
Prunus
Quercus
Rosaceae
Sargent, Charles Sprague,
Vitaceae
Vitis
Watson, Sereno,
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
Correspondence :Sargent (Charles) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Alvan Wentworth),
(Charles Christopher),
(Cyrus Guernsey),
(George Brown),
(George Washington),
(Heinrich Karl Daniel),
(John Gill),
(Marcus Eugene),
(Maxwell Tylden),
(Samuel Botsford),
(Thomas Conrad),
1809-1884
1809-1899
1817-1911
1818-1887
1819-1906
1821-1909
1822-1893
1822-1901
1823-1890
1826-1892
1831-1904
1832-1908
1833-1907
1837-1923
1838-1911
1840-1913
1841-1904
1841-1927
1843-1915
1843-1925
1845-1907
1851-1896
1852-1934
1880
Abies
Agave
Alismataceae
Bignoniaceae
Bolle, Carl August,
Botanical illustration
Botanical specimens
Brandegee, Townshend Stith,
Buckley, S. B
California
Canby, William Marriott,
Carya
Caspary, Robert,
Catalpa
Census, 1880
Chapman, A. W
Correspondence
Crataegus
Cupressaceae
Cupressus
Curtiss, Allen Hiram,
Description and travel
Eggert, Henry
Engelmann, George,
Fagaceae
Goode, G. Brown
Greene, Edward Lee,
Hooker, Joseph Dalton,
Isoetaceae
Isoetes
Jones, Marcus E
Juglandaceae
Juniperus
Lemmon, J. G
Letterman, George W
Letters
Liliaceae
Masters, Maxwell T
Morphology
Parry, C. C
Pa
Correspondence :Saurman (Benjamin) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Benjamin F.)
(Charles Christopher),
1809-1884
1823-1890
California
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Letters
Parry, C. C
Saurman, Benj. F
Correspondence :Skinner (Francis) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
1786-1879
1809-1884
1840-1905
Bigelow, Jacob,
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Letters
Skinner, Francis,
United States
Correspondence :Slogett (H.) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
1809-1884
1852-
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Letters
Missouri
Slogett, H. C.,
Correspondence :Wislizenus (Frederick) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Frederick Adolph),
1792?-1853
1807-1873
1809-1884
1810-1889
1813-1890
Agassiz, Louis,
Armijo, Manuel
Astronomy
Construction industry
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Finance, Personal
Frémont, John Charles,
Letters
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Mexico
Missouri
Patients
Politics, Practical
Saint Louis
Santa Fe (N.M.)
United States
Wislizenus, F. A
Correspondence :Wright (Charles) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(1852-1854)
(Frederick Adolph),
(James Duncan),
(John Milton),
(William Hemsley),
1796-1873
1799-1865
1802-1879
1803-1873
1804-1878
1809-1884
1810-1888
1810-1889
1811-1885
1811-1887
1813-1883
1817-1886
1840-1918
Agave
Bering Strait
Bigelow, John M
Botanical specimens
Boundaries
Cactaceae
Callitrichaceae
Callitriche
Cereus
Collectors and collecting
Commission on Boundary between the Indian Territor
Coniferae
Correspondence
Cruciferae
Cuba
Description and travel
Echinocactus
Emory, William H
Engelmann, George,
Euphorbiaceae
Fendler, Augustus,
Graham, J. D
Gramineae
Gray, Asa,
Lemna
Lemnaceae
Letters
Liliaceae
Lindheimer, Ferdinand,
Mammillaria (Cactus)
Melocactus
Mexico
Northwest, Pacific
Nymphaea
Nymphaeaceae
Onagraceae
Opuntia
Pereskia
Political and social views
Scientific expeditions
Sullivant, William Starling,
Thomas, Friedrich August Wilhelm,
Torrey, John,
Tuckerman, Edward,
United States
United States Naval Expedition to Japan
University of Cambridge
Wislizenus, F. A
Wolffia
Wright, Charles,
Yucca
Correspondence :Yarrow (Harry) and Engelmann (George),
Publication Info:
Tags:
(Harry Crécy),
1809-1884
1840-1929
Botanical specimens
Colorado
Correspondence
Description and travel
Engelmann, George,
Letters
Yarrow, H. C
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
Journey to Abyssinia in the provinces of Tigré, Samen, and Amhara.by Messrs. Ferret and Galinier ; translated by Julian B. Fleischman in collaboration with Missouri Botanical Garden.
Publication Info:
Tags:
Description and travel
Ethiopia
Natural history
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1707
Botany
Description and travel
Early works to 1800
England
Engravings
gmgpc
Jamaica
Natural history
Plants
Pre-Linnean
Pre-Linnean works
Wildflowers and landscapes of Ecuador :the way we knew it /by Mary Barnaš Pomeroy & Carl F.J. Barnaš.
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1921-
Botanical artists
Botanical illustration
Description and travel
Ecaudor
Ecuador
Plants
Pomeroy, Mary Barnas,
Quito
Quito (Ecuador)
Social life and customs
Travel
Yedo and Peking.A narrative of a journey to the capitals of Japan and China.By Robert Fortune.
Publication Info: London,J. Murray,1863.
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China
Description and travel
Japan