United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848
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- Three years in North America, by James Stuart
- An excursion through the United States and Canada during the years 1822-23, by an English gentleman
- The fashionable tour in 1825, an excursion to the Springs, Niagara, Quebec and Boston
- An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West Indies, by W. Winterbotham
- Notes of a tour in the United States and Canada in the summer and autumn of 1847, by Jabez Burns
- The United States and Canada in 1832, 1833, and 1834, by C.D. Arfwedson
- A tour in the United States of America, containing an account of the present situation of that country, the population, agriculture, commerce, customs, and manners of the inhabitants ... with a description of the Indian nations, the general face of the country, mountains, forests, rivers, and the most beautiful, grand, and picturesque views throughout that vast continent likewise improvements in husbandry that may be adopted with great advantage in Europe, by J.F.D. Smyth, Esq
- The journal of an excursion to the United States of North America in the summer of 1794, embellished with the profile of General Washington, and an aqua-tinta view of the state house at Philadelphia, by Henry Wansey .
- Letters from America, containing observations on the climate and agriculture of the western states, the manners of the people, the prospects of emigrants, &c. &c., by James Flint
- America, its realities and resources, comprising important details connected with the present social, political, agricultural, commercial, and financial state of the country, its laws and customs : together with a review of the policy of the United States that led to the War of 1812, and peace of 1814, the "right of search", the Texas and Oregon questions, etc. etc., by Francis Wyse
- A gallop among American scenery, or, Sketches of American scenes and military adventure, by Augustus E. Silliman
- Journal of a tour through the United States and in Canada made during the years 1837-38, by Charles Daubeny
- Travels through the states of North America, and the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, during the years 1795, 1796, and 1797, by Isaac Weld, Junior
- The rambler in North America, MDCCXXXII.-MDCCXXXIII., by Charles Joseph Latrobe
- Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the actual source of this river, embracing an exploratory trip through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) rivers in 1832, under the direction of Henry R. Schoolcraft
- The western world, or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47, exhibiting them in their latest development, social, political, and industrial, including a chapter on California, with a new map of the United States, showing their recent territorial acquisitions, and a map of California, by Alex. Mackay
- A subaltern's furlough, descriptive of scenes in various parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during the summer and autumn of 1832, by E. T. Coke
- America, its realities and resources, comprising important details connected with the present social, political, agricultural, commercial, and financial state of the country, its laws and customs : together with a review of the policy of the United States that led to the War of 1812, and peace of 1814, the "right of search", the Texas and Oregon questions, etc. etc., by Francis Wyse
- Geographical sketches on the western country, designed for emigrants and settlers, being the result of extensive researches and remarks : to which is added a summary of all the most interesting matters on the subject, including a particular description of the unsold public lands, collected from a variety of authentic sources : also, a list of the principal roads, by E. Dana
- Travels on an inland voyage through the states of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee and through the territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and New-Orleans, performed in the years 1807 and 1808, including a tour of nearly six thousand miles ..., by Charles Schultz, Jun. Esq
- A visit to the United States and Canada in 1833, with the view of settling in America, including a voyage to and from New York, by Richard Weston
- Sketches of America, a narrative of a journey of five thousand miles through the eastern and western states of America ; contained in eight reports addressed to the thirty-nine English families by whom the author was deputed, in June 1817, to ascertain whether any, and what part of the United States would be suitable for their residence : with remarks on Mr. Birkbeck's "Notes" and "Letters", by Henry Bradshaw Fearon
- Observations on professions, literature, manners and emigration, in the United States and Canada, made during a residence there in 1832, by Isaac Fidler
- An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the United States ofAmerica and Upper Canada, with an appendix containing a brief and comprehensive sketch of the present state of Mexico and South America and also the native tribes of the new world, collected, arranged, and digested from the best recent authorities and original communications, by E. Mackenzie .
- An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the United States of America and of Upper and Lower Canada, with an appendix containing a brief and comprehensive sketch of the present state of Mexico and South America, and also the native tribes of the new world, collected, arranged, and digested from the best recent authorities and original communications, by E. Mackenzie .
- J[o]urnal of travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, performed in the year 1817, containing particulars relating to the prices of land and provisions, remarks on the country and people ... and an account of the commerce, trade, and present state of Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Albany, Cincinatti, Pittsburg [sic], Lexington, Quebec, Montreal, &c. ..., by John Palmer
- Major Jones's sketches of travel, comprising the scenes, incidents and adventures in his tour from Georgia to Canada, by the author of "Major Jones's courtship", et cetera etc [id est William Tappan Thompson]
- The American traveller and emigrants guide, containing a description of the British possessions in North America, particularyly Quebec, Montreal, La Chine, and the flourishing town of Kingston, in the Canadas, of Hartford in Connecticut, the paradise of the United States and various extracts from the letters of emigrants .
- A descriptive and statistical account of Canada, showing its great adaptation for British emigration; preceded by an account of a tour through portions of the West Indies and the United States, by Thomas Rolph
- Echoes from the backwoods, or, Sketches of transatlantic life, by R.G.A. Levinge
- The American guide book, being a hand-book for tourists and travellers through every part of the United States : embracing full tables of routes and distances ... the whole preceded with short directions to travellers .
- A second visit to the United States of North America, by Sir Charles Lyell
- Reizen door de staaten van Noord-Amerika, en de provintiën van Opper-en Neder-Canada; in de jaaren 1795, 1796 en 1797, ondernomen door Isaäc Weld, Junior ... ; uit het Engelsch vertaald door S. van Hoek ; met plaaten en kaarten
- Notions of the Americans, picked up by a travelling bachelor
- Travels on an inland voyage through the states of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee and through the territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and New-Orleans, performed in the years 1807 and 1808, including a tour of nearly six thousand miles ..., by Charles Schultz, Jun. Esq
- Isaac Weld's Reisen durch die Staaten von Nordamerika und die Provinzen Ober-und Unter-Canada während den Jahren 1795, 1796 und 1797, aus dem Englischen übersetzt
- Sporting excursions in the Rocky Mountains, including a journey to the Columbia River and a visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, &c., by J.K. Townshend [id est Townsend]
- Travels through part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819, by John M. Duncan
- Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824, with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history, Charles Waterton
- A northern tour being a guide to Saratoga, Lake George, Niagara, Canada, Boston, &c. &c., through the states of Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Vermont, New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Connecticut, embracing an account of the canals, colleges, public institutions, natural curiosities and interesting objects therein
- American scenery, or, Land, lake and river illustrations of transatlantic nature, from drawings by W.H. Bartlett, engraved in the first style of the art by R. Wallis ... [and others] ; the literary department by N.P. Willis
- An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies, by W. Winterbotham
- A letter from Major Davezac to Mr. Wadsworth, a member of the Louisiana state legislature, in answer to an invitation to partake of a banquet offered by many of his fellow Democrats on his return to New Orleans, after his missions to the Netherlands and Naples
- Sketches of Upper Canada, domestic, local, and characteristic, to which are added, practical details for the information of emigrants of every class; and some recollections of the United States of America, by John Howsion
- America and the British colonies, an abstract of all the most useful information relative to the United States of America and the British colonies of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Island : exhibiting at one view the comparative advantages and disadvantages each country offers for emigration : collected from the most valuable and recent publications to which are added a few notes and observations, by William Kingdom
- A voyage to North America and the West Indies, in 1817, by E. Montulé.
- A pedestrian tour of two thousand three hundred miles, in North America, to the lakes, the Canadas, and the New England states : performed in the autumn of 1821, by P. Stansbury
- An excursion to the United States of North America, in the summer of 1794, embellished with the profile of General Washington and an aqua-tinta view of the state-house at Philadelphia, by Henry Wansey, F.A.S
- Travels through the two Louisianas and among the savage nations of the Missouri, also in the United States, along the Ohio and the adjacent provinces in 1801, 1802, & 1803 : with a sketch of the manners, customs, character, and the civil and religious ceremonies of the people of those countries, by M. Perrin du Lac
- Nouvelle géographie universelle, descriptive, historique industrielle, et commerciale des quatre parties du monde, contenant I. Un précis d'astronomie ... II. Un traité de cosmographie et de sphére ... III. Les grandes divisions du globe ... IV. La situation, étendue et description des republiques ... V. Leur climat, air, sol ... VI. Un abrégé d'histoire naturelle ... VII. Des observations sur les changemens ... VIII. Le génie, les moeurs, costumes ... IX. Leurs langues ... X. La topographie ... XI. Les formes des gouvernemens des nations ... XII. Les longitudes et distances ... avec des tableaux ..., par William Guthrie ; ouvrage traduit de l'anglais, sur la 19e et derniére édition par Fr. NoÃ{u0192}±l .
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