You Searched For
« Previous
| 1 - 10 of 23 |
Next »
Search Results
- Creator:
- Baldwyn, George Augustus.
- Published / Created:
- [1794?]
- Call Number:
- EEa 794b
- Image Count:
- 1128
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Autograph of N.B. Haswell., Irregularities in paging 1 map (Europe) wanting., and Many of the plates dated 1794.
- Publisher:
- Sold by A. Hogg
- Subject (Name):
- Haswell, N.B.--Autograph., Hogg, Henry., Outlon, Clement Walley., and Robertson, Charles Andrew.
- Subject (Topic):
- Geography.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A new, royal, authentic, complete, and universal system of geography: or, A modern history and description of the whole world. Containing ... accounts and descriptions of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ... including the substance and essence of the most remarkable voyages and travels ... particularly the late discoveries in the South seas, and towards the North pole ... Comprising every interesting discovery and circumstance in the narratives of Captain Cook's voyages round the world. Together with all the recent discoveries ... carefully written and compiled from the late journals of ... Captains Phillips, King, Ball, Hunter, White, Dixon, Portlock, Mears, Patterson, Bruce, Anbury, Rochon, Morse, Blyth, Ross, Imlay, Keate, Brissot, Hodges, &c. &c. Also compendious histories of every empire, kingdom, state, &c. ... The whole embellished and enriched with upwards of an hundred most elegant and superb copperplates ... By George Augustus Baldwyn, esq. assisted by many gentlemen eminent for their knowledge ... of geography; particularly Charles Andres Robertson, esq.--Clement Walley Oulton. esq.-- and Henry Hogg ...
- Creator:
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
- Published / Created:
- 1849 April 2-August 27
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 50
- Collection Title:
- Diaries, journals, and notebooks
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 124
- Abstract:
- The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
- Alternative Title:
- Emmigration, across the continent, in 1849, to
- Subject (Geographic):
- California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
- Subject (Topic):
- Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An account of the great emmigration across the continent, to California, in 1849. Adventures in California &c. &c. with copious illustrations ... in California ... by J. Goldsborough Bruff of Washington City
- Creator:
- Newlands, Francis G. (Francis Griffith), 1848-1917
Stewart, T. K - Published / Created:
- [1890]
- Call Number:
- Zc69 +890ne
- Image Count:
- 31
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- Original wrappers.
- Publisher:
- Reno Gazette Print.,
- Subject (Geographic):
- Tahoe, Lake, Watershed (Calif. and Nev.) and Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Irrigation --Nevada, Watersheds--California, Watersheds--Nevada, Water-storage --Nevada, and Water-supply --Nevada
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An address to the people of Nevada on water storage and irrigation / by Francis G. Newlands.
- Creator:
- D.H. Berdine & Co., printer
Wells, James, b. 1844? - Published / Created:
- 1885
- Call Number:
- Zc70 885we
- Image Count:
- 72
- Publisher:
- D.H. Berdine & Co., printers
- Subject (Geographic):
- Pacific Coast (U.S.) --Description and travel
- Subject (Topic):
- Missionaries --United States --Biography
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > From Kentucky to California : pastoral and missionary labors of James Wells on the Pacific Coast with sermons and description of places visited
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1840-1841]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2050 J774
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript copy in Spanish of a 1793 Spanish land grant by Louisiana Governor Francisco Louis Hector Carondelet to Don Joseph Valliere, and signed by Carlos Trudeau, Royal and Private Surveyor of the Province of Louisiana. The grant contains a map showing the location of the land on the White River in the present-day states of Arkansas and Missouri, and is impressed with the seal of the State of Louisiana, certified in English, dated December 7, 1840, and signed by L. Bringier, Surveyor General of Louisiana. The land grant copy is accompanied by an English translation of the grant and copies in an unidentified hand of three letters regarding the property including that of John Wilson to W. A. Bradley, Washington City (October 17, 1841); a letter to Wilson from [Beragency?], New Orleans (undated); and to John Wilson from H. H. Williams, New Orleans (June 19, 1841).
- Description:
- Joseph Valliere was a Captain in the Spanish Army and served in Louisiana; he died in 1799. and Purchased from Fred A. Rosenstock on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1975.
- Subject (Name):
- Bradley, W. A, Bringier, Louis, Louisiana.--Governor (1791-1797 : Carondelet), Louisiana.--Surveyor General's Office, Trudeau, Charles, Valliere, Joseph,---approximately 1799, Williams, H. H., and Wilson, John,--active 1841
- Subject (Topic):
- Land grants--Arkansas. and Land grants--Missouri.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Joseph Valliere Spanish land grant papers
7.
- Creator:
- Librairie six (Paris, France)
- Published / Created:
- [1921]
- Call Number:
- 1992 Folio 7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Subject (Name):
- Man Ray, 1890-1976
- Subject (Topic):
- Dadaism --Exhibitions
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Librairie six, 5, avenue Lowendal, Paris 7e, Exposition dada Man Ray, du 3 au 31 decembre 1921 ...
8.
- Creator:
- Rand McNally and Company
- Published / Created:
- c1884
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc35 876rae
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Maps, Atlases & Globes
- Description:
- Scale [1:1,267,200]. 1 in. = approx. 20 miles.
- Publisher:
- Rand, McNally & Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Dakota Territory, North Dakota., and South Dakota.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Map of Dakota / printed expressly for E.P. Gates, president Merchants Bank and negotiator of farm loans, Grand Forks, Dakota
- Published / Created:
- 1929
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2611
- Collection Title:
- R. E. Blair collection of Western oil and mining investment prospectuses
- Container / Volume:
- Box 3 | Folder 60
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Investments--United States, Mines and mineral resources--Arizona, Mines and mineral resources--Colorado, Mines and mineral resources--Nevada, Petroleum--Colorado, Petroleum--Louisiana, Petroleum--New Mexico, and Petroleum--Texas
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mid-Tex Company
10.
- Creator:
- Grelot, Guillaume-Joseph, b. ca. 1630
- Published / Created:
- 1681
- Call Number:
- 2007 1436
- Image Count:
- 221
- Description:
- Boxed, wanting covers.
- Publisher:
- Chez la veuve de D. Foucault
- Subject (Geographic):
- Istanbul (Turkey) --Description and travel and Marmara, Sea of (Turkey)
- Subject (Name):
- Aveele, Johannes van den, d. 1727, engraver, Ayasofya Muzesi--Pictorial works, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 --Bookplate, Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712, engraver, Orthodox Eastern Church, and Suleymaniye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey)--Pictorial works
- Subject (Topic):
- Islam --Turkey --Istanbul
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Relation nouvelle d’un voyage de Constantinople. Enrichie de plans levez par l’auteur sur les lieux, et des figures de tout ce qu’il y a de plus remarquable dans cette ville. Presentee au roy