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1.
A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New

Creator:
Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent
Published / Created:
1698 (8vo)
Call Number:
Zc20 697heg
Image Count:
7
Alternative Title:
Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer Glaciale. English and New discovery of a large country in America by Father Lewis Hennepin
Description:
BEIN Vanderbilt 75: Imperfect: Map for part II wanting. Unidentified armorial bookplate. Autograph: Lib. [Giwn]? Lloyd. Booklabel: W.S. Hiltz.
Publisher:
Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship
Subject (Geographic):
Mississippi River Valley, Great Lakes (North America), Canada, and Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Subject (Name):
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Discovery and exploration, History, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. : the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both parts illustrated, with maps and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William

2.
Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and

Creator:
James, Edwin, 1797-1861, compiler
Published / Created:
1822-1823.
Call Number:
Zc20 +822ja
Image Count:
41
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains and Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
Description:
Spine title, on publisher's printed labels: Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
Publisher:
H.C. Carey and I. Lea, Chesnut St.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Ohio River, Missouri River, and United States
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, Languages, Geology, Discoveries in geography, and Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War ; under the command of Major Stephen H. Long : from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the exploring party

3.
Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great salt lake of Utah, including a reconnoissance of

Creator:
United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Published / Created:
1852.
Call Number:
Zc58 852uo 1
Image Count:
12
Alternative Title:
Stansbury's expedition to the Great Salt Lake
Description:
BEIN Zc58 852uo Copy 2: Imperfect: portfolio with maps wanting.
Publisher:
Lippincott, Grambo & co.
Subject (Geographic):
Utah., Great Salt Lake (Utah), West (U.S.), and United States
Subject (Topic):
Natural history, Description and travel, and Discovery and exploration
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great salt lake of Utah, including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky mountains

4.
Harvey Clark correspondence concerning missionaries in Oregon, 1840-1852

Creator:
Clark, Harvey, 1807-1858
Call Number:
WA MSS S-3252
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
12
Abstract:
11 manuscript letters, most signed, documenting the work of early missionaries in Oregon. Most of the letters from Harvey Clark are addressed to fellow unaffiliated missionary Alvin T. Smith. Clark describes his overland journey to Oregon Territory,...
Description:
Harvey Clark (1807-1858) was a missionary and pioneer in Oregon. Born in Vermont, Clark trained as a stone mason before studying theology at Oberlin College. Clark and his wife Emmeline Caldwell Clark went to Oregon as unaffiliated missionaries in 18...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon. and Oregon
Subject (Name):
Clark, Emmeline Caldwell., Clark, Harvey, 1807-1858., Littlejohn, P. B., Munger, Asahel., Smith, Alvin Thompson, 1802-1888., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., and Tualatin Academy.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Education, Missions Oregon, Missionaries, Missions, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Pioneers, and Discovery and exploration
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Harvey Clark correspondence concerning missionaries in Oregon, 1840-1852

5.
Letterbook, 1819-1906

Creator:
James, Edwin, 1797-1861
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1405
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
The Edwin James letterbook consists of letters to his brother John from 1819 to 1825. The letters chronicle Edwin James's appointment as doctor, geologist, and botanist with Stephen Long's 1820 expedition to the Rocky Mountains. The letters describe ...
Description:
Edwin James (1797-1861), naturalist, specializing in geology, explorer, doctor in the United States Army.
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Fort Crawford (Wis.), Great Plains, Missouri, Ohio River Valley, Prairie du Chien (Wis.), United States, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
James, Edwin, 1797-1861., James, John, fl. 1797-1825., Reed, Silas, 1807-1886., Long, Stephen H. 1784-1864. (Stephen Harriman),, and Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864.
Subject (Topic):
Geology, Description and travel, and Discovery and exploration
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letterbook, 1819-1906

6.
Message from the president of the United States : in compliance with a resolution of the Senate

Published / Created:
1846?]
Call Number:
Zc20 846un 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
BEIN: Copy 2 was James W. Abert's personal copy and includes a ms. letter from John Fremont tipped in, ordering Abert to make preparations for departure from St. Louis in 1845. Copy 2 is also extra illustrated with 12 plates of watercolors of Indians...
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Arkansas, and United States
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration and Exploring expeditions
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Message from the president of the United States : in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, communicating a report of an expedition led by Lieutenant Abert, on the upper Arkansas and through the country of the Camanche Indians, in the fall of the year 1845

7.
Purchas his pilgrimes : In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made

Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Published / Created:
1625.
Call Number:
Pequot +P978 1-4
Container / Volume:
3
Image Count:
19
Alternative Title:
Hakluytus posthumus, Purchas his pilgrimes in five bookes, and Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes
Description:
BEIN Taylor 305: Uncancelled state of v. 1 G3 and 4M4,5. Armorial bookplate: Earl of Ancram. Vol. 1: [1] Description of East India (27.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 33.5 x 39.8 cm) bound in following p. 578; vol. 3: [1] The map of China (27.5 x 34.3 cm, on sh...
Publisher:
Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Religions, Geography, and Discovery and exploration
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Purchas his pilgrimes : In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ[32]with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part

8.
Purchas his pilgrimes : In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made

Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Published / Created:
1625.
Call Number:
Pequot +P978 1-4
Container / Volume:
1
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Hakluytus posthumus, Purchas his pilgrimes in five bookes, and Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes
Description:
BEIN Taylor 305: Uncancelled state of v. 1 G3 and 4M4,5. Armorial bookplate: Earl of Ancram. Vol. 1: [1] Description of East India (27.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 33.5 x 39.8 cm) bound in following p. 578; vol. 3: [1] The map of China (27.5 x 34.3 cm, on sh...
Publisher:
Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Religions, Geography, and Discovery and exploration
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Purchas his pilgrimes : In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ[32]with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part

9.
Purchas his pilgrimes : In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made

Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Published / Created:
1625.
Call Number:
Pequot +P978 1-4
Container / Volume:
4
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Hakluytus posthumus, Purchas his pilgrimes in five bookes, and Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes
Description:
BEIN Taylor 305: Uncancelled state of v. 1 G3 and 4M4,5. Armorial bookplate: Earl of Ancram. Vol. 1: [1] Description of East India (27.1 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 33.5 x 39.8 cm) bound in following p. 578; vol. 3: [1] The map of China (27.5 x 34.3 cm, on sh...
Publisher:
Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Religions, Geography, and Discovery and exploration
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Purchas his pilgrimes : In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ[32]with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part

10.
The general history of the vast continent and islands of America : commonly call'd the West-Indies

Creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, -1625, author
Published / Created:
MDCCXXV-MDCCXXVI [1725-1726]
Call Number:
Z6 22g 1
Image Count:
10
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos. Selections. English
Description:
Volumes 1 and 2 dated 1725; volumes 3-6 dated 1726.
Publisher:
Printed for Jer. Batley at the Dove in Pater-Noster-Row
Subject (Geographic):
Latin America, America, and Latin American
Subject (Topic):
History, Discovery and exploration, Spanish, and Slavery
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The general history of the vast continent and islands of America : commonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof : with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities