The active volcano
As this page vividly illustrates, Vesuvius continued to be quite active after Raymond's visit. Published in Naples for an English audience, this book represents the nineteenth-century traveller's increasingly scientific interests.
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Sketches of Vesuvius with short accounts of its principal eruptions : from the commencement of the Christian era to the present time
Naples : George Glass
Douglas, George Henry Scott, 1825-1885
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Travel advertisements
These advertisements inevitably evoke a longing for the past. As we trundle our luggage through airports, the idea of a servant seems most appealing. While the grandeur of train stations like Dunedin's meant that accommodation nearby was the most respectable. Travelling now had high and low seasons, but travel in this style was still limited to a well-heeled clientele.
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A handbook for travellers in Syria and Palestine, including an account of the geography, history, antiquities, and inhabitants of these countries, The Peninsula of Sinai, Edom, and the Syrian desert, with detailed descriptions of Jerusalem, Petra, Damascus, and Palmyra
London : J. Murray
John Murray (Firm)
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Africanus' descriptions
This small book is too tightly bound to be displayed open, but its small size belies its influence. Translated first into Latin and French from Italian in 1556, the work reached English readers by 1600 and by 1632 the Elzevir firm, associated with publishing of classical texts, put out this handsome pocket-size volume.
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Ioannis Leonis Africani Africae descriptio IX. lib. absoluta.
Lugd. Batav. : Apud Elzevir.
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Boswell and Brydon
By the second half of the eighteenth century, the grand tour had been so frequently recounted that Boswell and Brydone both sought more remote corners of Italy. Boswell's usual irrepressible enthusiasm and undaunted effrontery secured him the acquaintance of Pascal Paoli, a freedom fighter of his day, while Boswell's published account (1768) earned for its author the life-long soubriquet of Corsican Boswell. Brydone dedicated his account to William Beckford, responsible for the fashion of picturesque tours, who had initially suggested Brydone visit Sicily:
I remember to have heard you regret, that in all your peregrinations through Europe, you had ever neglected the island of Sicily; and had spent much of your time in running over the old beaten track, and in examining the thread-bare subjects of Italy and France; when probably there were a variety of objects, not less interesting, that still lay buried in oblivion in that celebrated island. (1-2)
Brydone clearly identified the interesting objects, for his work went through more than 20 editions in his lifetime.
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The journal of a tour to Corsica : & memoirs of Pascal Paoli
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Roberts, S. C. (Sydney Castle), 1887-1966
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Brice's guide to Paris
Into its seventh edition, Brice's guide to Paris clearly satisfied its customers, who needed two volumes just to appreciate what one city had to offer. Illustrations were also clearly a stong selling point, indicating that the book was appreciated at least as much by armchair travellers as by those who actually explored Paris.
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Description de la ville de Paris et de tout ce qu'elle contient de plus remarquable, par Germain Brice. Enrichie d'un nouveau plan & de nouvelles figures dessinees & gravees correctement.
Paris, F. Fournier
4 v. fold. pl., fold map
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An African adventure story
Bruce's story remains one of the quintessential African adventure stories, and was eagerly expected by contemporary readers. Bruce took sixteen years to publish his account, by which time Mungo Park and others had brought back further information and survived even greater hardships, but it was still a success even in its large, 5-volume format.
This particular edition is an abridgement of the 1804/5 Edinburgh second edition. It was printed in 1964 by the same printing firm, T. & A. Constable, that printed the original. It would be nice to think that the success of Bruce's story at the beginning of the nineteenth century put the firm on the sound footing that ensured its future. Certainly there was still a demand for Bruce's account more than 150 years later.
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Travels to discover the source of the Nile.
Edinburgh : University Press
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Cannongate
This image of Canongate during a royal procession highlights Edinburgh's loyalty to the monarch as well as its impressive modernity. Scotland was no longer the potentially rebellious or poverty-stricken northern neighbour of earlier accounts.
This particular publication led its publisher, Virtue, to claim 'that the prosperity he had attained was mainly owing to Dr. Beattie's literary assistance'. Beattie and Bartlett put out similar volumes on Switzerland, the castles and abbeys of England, and the Danube, though the Scottish volume was the greatest success.
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Scotland illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by Messrs T. Allom, W. H. Bartlett, and H. McCulloch
London : G. Virtue
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872
McCulloch, Horatio, 1805-1867
Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854
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Cary's Traveller's Companion
This small volume provides the practical details needed to navigate the new road systems. Cary's maps, with the colour-coded distinctions among roads, beautifully conveys the intricate networks of communication that increasingly encouraged local travel. Turquoise lines indicate the routes of the mail coaches.
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Cary's Traveller's companion; or, a delineation of the turnpike roads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate route to every market and boroughtown throughout the kingdom, laid down from the best authorities, on a new set of county maps. To which is added, an alphabetical list of all the market towns, with the days on which they are held.
London, Printed for J. Cary ...
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A journey into Greece
Dedicated to the King, this volume displays a reasonably early interest in natural history. Indeed, because Dr. Spon had published his account in French a decade earlier, and because an English bookseller had brought out a translation, Wheler had to insert new material into his account to differentiate it from his companion's work. The new material was largely on plants and medallions, but this image of the chameleon is one of the more exotic and intriguing of Wheler's contributions. Wheler's work was in turn published in French in Amsterdam in 1689.
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A journey into Greece, by George Wheler Esq; in company of Dr Spon of Lyons. In six books. Containing I. A voyage from Venice to Constantinople. II. An account of Constantinople and the adjacent places. III. A voyage through the Lesser Asia. IV. A voyage from Zant through several parts of Greece to Athens. V. An account of Athens. VI. Several journeys from Athens, into Attica, Corinth, Bœotia, &c. With variety of sculptures.
London : printed for William Cademan, Robert Kettlewell, and Awnsham Churchill, at the Popes Head in the New-Exchange, the Hand and Scepter in Fleetstreet, and the Black Swan near Amen-Corner
Spon, Jacob, 1647-1685
Cademan, William
Kettlewell, Robert
Churchill, Awnsham, -1728
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Settlement of Australia
The frontispiece to this gorgeous volume captures the adventure associated with the settlement of Australia. Though the documents do not constitute a travel narrative, their connections with the moment of origin provide their intended readers with the same sense of national pride and discovery that attracted readers of the contemporary accounts.
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The first fleet : the record of the foundation of Australia from its conception to the settlement at Sydney Cove. Compiled from the original documents in the Public record office...
Golden Cockerel Press
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Common phrases for travelling
This somewhat battered little book attests to its apparent usefulness for some traveller, though it is difficult to imagine that the blend of scatalogical and salacious dialogue, 'Common Talke in an Inn', could ever have proved useful in any language.
The gentlemans pocket companion, for travelling into foreign parts: being a most easy, plain and particular description of the roads from London to all the capital cities in Europe. ... With three dialogues in six European languages. ...
[London] : Printed and sold by Tho: Taylor, London
Taylor, Thomas, -1737
Buttor, John
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William Dampier, buccaneer
William Dampier was the most successful English buccaneer, redeeming his reputation as a mercenary adventurer by aspiring to the role of scientific explorer. This world map, drawn by Herman Moll, the premier cartographer of his day, shows the known outlines of Australia and New Zealand based on the voyages of Dampier and Tasman. On the whole, Dampier and his fellow sailors were not impressed by their encounters with Australian aborigines, but his accounts greatly encouraged British interest in exploration of the South Seas.
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A new voyage round the world : describing particularly the Isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, the isle of Guam, one of the Ladrones, Mindanao, and other Philippine and East-India islands near Cambodia, China, Formosa, Luconia, Celebes, &c., New Holland, Sumatra, Nicobar Isles, the Cape of Good Hope, and Santa Hellena : their soil, rivers, harbours, plants, fruits, animals, and inhabitants : their customs, religion, government, trade, &c.
London : Printed for James Knapton ...
James Knapton (Printer)
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Imaginary dialogues
These two imaginary dialogues raise serious questions about the value of the grand tour. Locke is the more sceptical speaker, and ultimately the more forceful. In refuting the traditional argument that travel exposed one to the various guises of Human Nature, Locke here advocates travel beyond Europe, to ‘catch Her undressed, nay quite naked in North-America, and at the Cape of Good Hope'. Perhaps he should have carried The Gentleman's Pocket Companion with him.
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Dialogues on the uses of foreign travel : considered as a part of an English gentleman's education : between Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Locke / by the editor of Moral and political dialogues
Dublin : Printed for Peter Wilson
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Dunedin Poem
Not only does this pamphlet's content affirm that tourism can be local, but the poem by Thomas Bracken praises our local attractions over a selection of the European highlights.
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The Otago Peninsula : a visitor's guide
Dunedin : Bayfield Jaycee, Dunedin
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Florence
As a historian of his birthplace, Migliore celebrates the grandeur of Florence in this elegant guidebook.
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Firenze citta nobilissima illvstrata da Ferdinando Leopoldo del Migliore. Prima, seconda, e terza parte del primo libro
Firenze, Stamp. della Stella
Holland family
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Pressed flowers
This handbook is included as evidence of other uses to which travel guides may be put. One can easily imagine a character in A Room with a View placing a favourite flower into his or her Baedeker. Someone certainly did so with this volume, though we have not investigated whether this is a Mediterranean plant.
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Handbook to the Mediterranean : its cities, coasts, and islands, for the use of general travellers and yachtsmen / by R.L. Playfair.
London : J. Murray
Playfair, R. Lambert (Robert Lambert), 1828-1899
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Topography
Gell's detailed study of the architectural discoveries unearthed at Pompei over the course of the eighteenth century provides an example of the strong English interest in topography and archaeology that often informed travel. This particular image also shows the strikingly barren profile of Vesuvius across the otherwise lush plain.
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Pompeiana: the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii
London, Rodwell and Martin
Gandy, John P. (John Peter), 1787-1850
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Hotel Honolulu
A novel by one of the best-known modern travel writers, Hotel Honolulu exploits the tension between fact and fiction in travel accounts. The dust jacket claims that Theroux presents 'the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted', combining the piercing gaze of an incisive traveller with the novelty of a new perspective. Few of his predecessors would have gone wrong with such a combination.
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Hotel Honolulu
Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin
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India
The contents of this pamphlet are far less colourful or exotic than its cover. Although twentieth-century readers expect accurate information, we still like to imagine our voyages as adventures.
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India: Hints for travellers, specimen tours...... Places of interest Etc. Season 1936-37
London: Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd
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Sandys' journey
Remembered as a translator of Ovid and the Psalms, Sandys was initially a great traveller both to the east and then to the American colonies. This map of Jerusalem is carefully constructed to accompany Sandys's narrative; the reader proceeds in numerical order through the sights of Jerusalem in Sandys's footsteps.
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A relation of a iourney begun an: Dom: 1610. : Fovre bookes. : Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning.
London. : Printed for Ro: Allot
Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?
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Laplanders
Smollett's collection ranged as widely as possible in all directions, and this account of Laplanders provides a nice comparison with the Webber image above.
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A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages, digested in a chronological series. The whole exhibiting a clear view of the customs, manners, religion, government, commerce, and natural history of most nations in the known world. ...
London : printed for W. Strahan; J. Rivington; W. Johnston; J. Dodsley; T. Caslon; T. Lowndes; W. Nicoll; Richardson and Urquhart; T. Jefferies; and B. Collins at Salisbury
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Strahan, William, 1715-1785
Rivington, John, 1720-1792
Johnston, W. (William), -1804
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Markino's Rome
Although Markino's image of Rome is at least as romanticised as anything on display in the beginning of the exhibition, reader expectations have undoubtedly shifted, developing an interest in the 'personal & local', the individual experience that softens and colours the scene.
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The colour of Rome : historic, personal & local / with illustrations by Yoshio Markino, an introduction by Douglas Sladen, and an essay by the artist.
London : Chatto & Windus
Makino, Yoshio, 1874-1956
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Special Collections: DG806.PV32
Elegant picturesque views
While Boswell's impressive volume is more historical and topographical than Gilpin or Combe, his title reveals the emphasis readers and publishers placed on the 'views'. The 'pleasing effect' of St. Michael's Mount and its 'agreeable' situation with its 'pleasant and extensive' 'prospect' are not archaeologically or strategically significant, but they certainly make this remote corner of the kingdom worthy of a visit by the discerning tourist. Most of the descriptions of English sites first appeared in the London Magazine from 1747 to 1760.
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Historical descriptions of new and elegant picturesque views of the antiquities of England and Wales: being a grand copper-plate repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment. ... accompanied by elegant letter-press descriptions of the several places delineated: ... To which will be added, ... seats of the nobility and gentry ; ... Published under the inspection of Henry Boswell, ... assisted by Robert Hamilton, L.L.D. and other ingenious gentlemen ...
London : printed for Alex. Hogg
Hogg, Alexander, active 1778-1819
Published in 100 parts, unpaginated, and 11 additional parts, numbered 16-25 and 27, signed A-L and paginated 1-42, entitled 'A general history of antient castles, forts, &c.', together with a preface, list of subscribers, and a list of plates.
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Special Collections Shoults Ec/1786/B
Michelin man
The Michelin man seems slightly thin by comparison with his modern counterpart, but the insistent endorsement of Michelin products is as modern as any web-page advertising. At this date, the guides had not yet adopted the star rating system and did not comment on dining establishments. However, the company did give the guides away, a new edition each year, to the extent that 'The Michelin Guides distributed gratis every year would, if placed one upon another, make a pile 60 times as high as St. Paul's Cathedral' (2).
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Michelin guide to the British Isles, 1912
London : Michelin Tyre Co.
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Special Collections: DA630.ML475 1912
Milan
Not to be outdone by Venice, Pisa and Rome, Milan found her own historian in Carlo Torre. This engraving shows one of the oldest surviving Roman colonnades in the city, but does not lavish too much detail on the surroundings, consigning them to a lighter gray background against which the significant ruin stands out prominently. Nonetheless, the artist could not resist touches of daily life in late seventeenth-century Milan, with sightseers apparently reclining opposite the colonnade to appreciate its artistry.
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Il ritratto di Milano : diviso in tre libri / colorito da Carlo Torre ... ; nel quale vengono descritte tutte le antichità e modernità, che vedeuansi, e che si vedono nella città di Milano, sì di sontuose fabbriche, quanto di pittura, e di scultura : con varie narrazioni istoriche appartenenti à gesti di principi, duchi, e cittandini
In Milano : Per Federico Agnelli Scult. & Stamp.
Busca, Antonio, 1625-1686
Garavaglia, Joseph
Biffi, Andrea
Biffi, Filippo
Agnelli, Federico, 1626-1702
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Special Collections de Beer Ib/1674/T