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Cary Instrument Maker Business Card

Author:
Unknown  Search this
Joseph Henry Papers Project  Search this
Subject:
Henry, Joseph 1797-1878  Search this
Physical description:
Number of Images: 2 ; Color: Color ; Size: 3.75w x 2.75h ; Type of Image: Document ; Medium: Paper
Place:
Europe
London, England
Date:
1837
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)  Search this
Optics  Search this
Scientific apparatus and instruments  Search this
Mathematics  Search this
Physics  Search this
Standard number:
SIA2012-7615 and SIA2012-7616
Restrictions & Rights:
No restrictions
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_13503
Online Media:

Walking home to Rosie Lee / by A. LaFaye ; illustrated by Keith D. Shepherd

Author:
LaFaye, A  Search this
Shepherd, Keith D. 1957-  Search this
Physical description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Type:
Fiction
Juvenile fiction
Place:
United States
Date:
2011
C2011
1865-1898
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Mothers and sons  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Freed persons  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1011399

Embarcadero / Richard H. Dillon

Author:
Dillon, Richard H  Search this
Physical description:
313 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
California
San Francisco
Date:
1959
[1959]
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Harbors  Search this
Call number:
G525.D48X 1959
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_391566

New voyages and travels : consisting of originals, translations, and abridgements

Author:
Phillips, R (Richard) Sir 1767-1840  Search this
Former owner:
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe 1793-1864 DSI  Search this
United States Department of State Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
9 v., [186+] leaves of plates (47 folded) : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, port. ; 23 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
1819
1823
[1819]-1823
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Call number:
G161 .N38 1820
G161.N38 1820
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_395083

A new system of modern geography, or, A general description of all the considerable countries in the world : compiled from the latest European and American geographies, voyages and travels : designed for schools and academies / by Elijah Parish ... ; ornamented with maps

Author:
Parish, Elijah 1762-1825  Search this
Physical description:
370 p., 2 folded leaves of plates : maps ; 18 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1810
Topic:
Geography  Search this
Call number:
G125 .P25 1810
G125.P25 1810
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_394289

A voyage of discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander : for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage / by John Ross

Title:
Voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions
Ross's Baffins Bay DSI
Author:
Ross, John Sir 1777-1856  Search this
Skene, A. M  Search this
Havell, Daniel -1826?  Search this
Former owner:
Oakeley, Herbert Sir 1791-1845 DSI  Search this
Dwight, Jonathan 1858-1929 DSI  Search this
Tucker, Marcia Brady DSI  Search this
Subject:
Ross, John Sir 1777-1856  Search this
Isabella (Ship : 1818-1834)  Search this
Alexander (Ship)  Search this
Physical description:
[4], xxxix, [1], 252, [2], cxliv p., [32] leaves of plates (13 folded) : ill. (aquatints, some col.), charts, maps ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Baffin Bay (North Atlantic Ocean)
Northwest Passage
Arctic regions
Date:
1819
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
G650 1818 .R824 1819
G650 1818.R824 1819
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_381624

Voyages & travels to the East Indies 1653-1670 / Johan Nieuhof ; with an introduction by Anthony Reid

Author:
Nieuhof, Johannes 1618-1672  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 146-326 p., [44] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 35 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
East Indies
Asia
Date:
1988
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
G160 .N67 1988
G160.N67 1988
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_383432

South seas [electronic resource] : voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800) / [Paul Turnball and Chris Blackall]

Author:
Turnball, Paul 1954-  Search this
Blackall, Chris  Search this
Australian National University Centre for Cross-Cultural Research  Search this
Subject:
Cook, James 1728-1779 Travel  Search this
Banks, Joesph Sir 1743-1820 Travel  Search this
Pakrinson, Sydney 1745?-1771 Travel  Search this
Hawkesworth, John 1715?-1779 Travel  Search this
Type:
Electronic resources
Early works to 1800
Place:
Pacific Area
Oceania
New Zealand
Australia
Date:
2003
[2003]-
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Voyages around the world  Search this
Civilization  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
G420.C77
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_737470

In the trades, the tropics and the roaring forties. By Lady Brassey. With 292 illustrations engraved on wood by G. Pearson and J. Cooper after drawings by R.T. Pritchett

Author:
Brassey, Annie Allnutt Baroness 1839-1887  Search this
Physical description:
xiv p., 1 l., 532 p. illus., 9 maps, (2 fold.) 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
West Indies, British
Date:
1885
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
F2131 .B82
F2131.B82
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_72393

The Pacific journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768 / translated and edited by John Dunmore

Author:
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de comte 1729-1811  Search this
Dunmore, John 1923-  Search this
Hakluyt Society  Search this
Subject:
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de comte 1729-1811  Search this
Physical description:
lxxvii, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Place:
Pacific Ocean
Date:
2002
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
G420 .B75 2002
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_716965

The global soul : jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home / Pico Iyer

Author:
Iyer, Pico  Search this
Subject:
Iyer, Pico Travel  Search this
Physical description:
303 p. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2000
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Popular culture  Search this
Internationalism  Search this
Technological innovations--Social aspects  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_717077

The camel hunt: a narrative of personal adventure. By J.W. Fabens

Author:
Fabens, Joseph Warren 1821-1875  Search this
Physical description:
iv p., 1 l., 219 p. 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1853
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Call number:
G530.F11 1853X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_390349

In kaart gebracht met kapmes en kompas : met het Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap op expeditie tussen 1873 en 1960 / Arnold Wenthold (red.)

Author:
Veth, D. D (Daniel David) 1850-1885  Search this
Herderschee, A. Franssen  Search this
Wentholt, Arnold  Search this
Subject:
Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap History  Search this
Physical description:
382 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 27 cm. + 3 maps (3 folded leaves : col. ; 73 x 44 cm. or smaller, folded to 19 x 22 cm. or smaller)
Type:
Books
Maps
Place:
Indonesia
Suriname
Africa, Southern
West (U.S.)
Sumatra (Indonesia)
Namibia
Date:
2003
Topic:
Antiquities  Search this
Scientific expeditions  Search this
Voyages and travels  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DS619 .I5 2003
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_919782

The travels of Monsieur de Thévenot into the Levant : newly done out of French / [by A. Lovell]

Author:
Thévenot, Jean de 1633-1667  Search this
Lovell, Archibald  Search this
Physical description:
[37], 293, 201, 118 p. : ill., port. ; 32 cm
Type:
Books
Early works to 1800
Place:
Middle East
Iran
India
Date:
1971
1687
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
956.9 .T4
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_892312

Le livre de Marco Polo, citoyen de Venise, conseiller privé et commissaire impériale de Khoubilaï Khaân; rédigé en français sous sa dictée en 1298 par Rusticien de Pise; publié pour la première fois d'après trois manuscrits inédits de la Bibliothèque impériale de Paris, présentant la rédaction primitive du livre, revue par Marc Pol lui-même et donnée par lui, en 1307, à thiébau...

Author:
Polo, Marco 1254-1323?  Search this
Rusticiano da Pisa  Search this
Pauthier, G (Guillaume) 1801-1873  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. front., fold. map. 27 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Asia
Date:
1865
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Mongols--History  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
G370 .P77 1865
G370.P77 1865
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_87277

To China and back : being a diary kept out and home / by Albert Smith ; with an introd. by Henry James Lethbridge

Author:
Smith, Albert 1816-1860  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 79 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1974
Topic:
Voyages and travels  Search this
Call number:
DS709 .S63 1974
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_875313

Traveling Prehistoric Seas : Critical Thinking on Ancient Transoceanic Voyages / Alice Beck Kehoe

Title:
Critical thinking on ancient transoceanic voyages
Author:
Kehoe, Alice Beck 1934-  Search this
Physical description:
217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
America
Discovery and exploration
Date:
2016
To 1500
Topic:
Voyages and travels--History  Search this
Navigation--History  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Polynesian  Search this
Pre-Columbian  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1060322

A narrative of voyages and travels in the northern and southern hemispheres : comprising three voyages round the world : together with a voyage of survey and discovery, in the Pacific Ocean and oriental islands / by Amasa Delano

Author:
Delano, Amasa 1763-1823  Search this
Former owner:
United States Department of State Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
598, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : map, ports. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1817
Topic:
Voyages around the world  Search this
Call number:
G440 .D33 1817
G440.D33 1817
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_391508

Voyages and travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 / by George, Viscount Valentia ; in three volumes

Title:
Valentia's voyages and travels DSI
Author:
Mountnorris, George Annesley Earl of 1769-1844  Search this
Salt, Henry 1780-1827  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Donor:
Galloway, J. Roy DSI  Search this
Former owner:
United Service Club (Great Britain) DSI  Search this
Subject:
Mountnorris, George Annesley Earl of 1769-1844  Search this
Physical description:
3 v., [69] leaves of plates (9 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 28 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
India
Sri Lanka
Red Sea
Ethiopia
Egypt
Date:
1809
Topic:
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DS5.9 .M92 1809
DS5.9.M92 1809
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_394123

Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America : during the years 1799-1804 / by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland ; translated from the French of Alexander von Humboldt and edited by Thomasina Ross

Author:
Humboldt, Alexander von 1769-1859  Search this
Bonpland, Aimé 1773-1858  Search this
Ross, Thomasina  Search this
Physical description:
3 v. ; 19 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
South America
Date:
1894
1900
1894-1900
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Voyages and travels  Search this
Scientific expeditions  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
F2221 .H919 E1894
F2221.H919 E1894
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_380480

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