London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1819. First edition. Osbourne Collection, page 74. Travel verse for children in a series of charming original poems that depict scenes and describe "sea-subjects" along the southern coast of England, where the author resided. The poems are sequential, beginning with the journey, and the cast.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1817. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, pages 261-62; ODNB. An eyewitness account to the Battle of Waterloo and surrounding events by novelist Charlotte Eaton who traveled to Belgium with her sister to accompany their brother to war. He survived and she wrote about it, another example.....
London: Printed at the Minerva Press for A. K. Newman, 1813. First edition. NCBEL III, 734 (which cites the date as 1825); Blakey, Minerva Press, page 241 (but apparently did not locate a copy to examine); OCLC records nine copies; Colbert; ODNB. The first of several imaginary travelogues for young.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First edition. Colbert; ODNB. One of three travelogues by Scottish novelist Elizabeth Isabella Spence (1768-1832), written in 32 letters dedicated to fellow Scottish novelist, Jane Porter. Spence was a self-sufficient woman, who from an early age supported herself by writing.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. First edition. In 1783, Mary Berry (1763-1852), author and friend and editor of Horace Walpole, went on the Grand Tour of Europe with her father and sister Agnes, and returned there, particularly to France, many times. Her richly woven Comparative View represents.....
La Haye: Chez Henri van Bulderen, Marchand Libraire, dansle Pooten, à l'Enseigne de Mezeray, 1692. Second edition; first published in 1691, also in The Hague. The popular and colorful Relation du Voyage d’Espagne by Marie-Catherine Aulnoy (1650-1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, the prolific French author of fairy tales, stories.....
London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; ODNB. In 1821 Marianne Baillie accompanied her husband on his diplomatic assignment to Portugal, where she wrote the second of her two travel narratives. "In her letters the trials of the new constitutional government of Portugal and its eventual overthrow.....
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175; ODNB. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....
London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795. First edition. ESTC T62060; Colbert; Robinson, pages 290-91; NCBEL III, 759. The only venture into travel writing by the poet and novelist Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), a narrative of her European sojourn in 1794 with her journalist husband William. It began as.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1820. First edition. Colbert; Pine-Coffin 819-3; Robinson, pages 44-45; ODNB. A travel narrative revealing of the adventurous and fearless nature of its author, Maria Graham (1785-1842). In the summer of 1819, she, her husband, and the artist.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese and Orme, 1805. First edition. Pine-Coffin 778-7; Colbert; ODNB. Novelist and poet Cornelia Knight (1757-1837) lived for several years in the 1790s in Rome and other parts of Italy, where she mastered numerous languages, drawing, painting and writing, the latter which she put to.....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Colbert; ODNB; Sabin 18640; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 2, 16. Frances Wright (1785-1852), also known as Fanny Wright and later as Frances D’Arusmont, traveled to America in 1818 with the intention of observing and writing about the.....
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1776. First edition. ESTC T89035; Pine-Coffin 770-4; Robinson, page 186; ODNB. Lady Anna Riggs Miller (1741-81), a wealthy heiress, set off with her husband John Miller in 1770 on an “ideal jaunt” to Italy – travel for travel’s sake - which she recorded.....
New York: Published by J. & J. Harper, 1833. First edition. Hill, Pacific Voyages, 1185 & 1186; American Imprints 20220; Sabin 50776; Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 862. In 1829, Abby Jane Morrell accompanied her husband, Benjamin Morrell, on his fourth voyage from New York to the Pacific. "They embarked...
London: Charles Knight, 1838. First edition. NCBEL III, 949; Robinson, pages 143-44; ODNB. A different kind of guide to travel issued in Charles Knight's series "Guides to Service." The well-traveled Harriet Martineau advises her readers on the approach to travel, what to look for, how to find it, how to.....
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. First edition. Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 3, 205; Sabin 44939; NCBEL III, 949; Robinson, pages 143-44.; Colbert; ODNB. The second travel narrative about America by political economist and journalist Harriet Martineau (1802-76), in which she recounts her two-year tour to New York.....
London: Printed for the Writer and sold by J. Bell, British Library, Strand, [1785]. Third and final edition, issued in close proximity to the prior two editions and in an identical format. ESTC N10835 records four locations of this edition: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Harvard, MIT, LC; three locations of the.....
Paris: C. Painparré, Libraire, 1821. Second edition, "revue et augmentee." Preceded by the first edition of 1819, of which OCLC records only one copy. OCLC and COPAC record this second edition in six locations. A perspective on London and England by minor French author Madame D'Avot (or Davot), who spent.....
London: Hugh Cunningham, 1842. First and edition. Theakstone, page 430. An entertaining and substantial travel narrative by Lady Anna Vavasour, which she began in May, 1840, to the spas of Germany, with an excursion by carriage to Italy. Lady Vavasour’s observations, particularly on the economic conditions of the people she.....
London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. First edition. ESTC T64790; Robinson, pages 249-50; ODNB. Like Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Ward (1699-1783) became a traveler when she accompanied her husband Thomas Ward on a diplomatic mission, this one to Russia between 1730 and 1739. Also like Montagu she did not intend.....
London: John Murray, 1842. First edition. Robinson, pages 96-7; Pine-Coffin 838-2. In the summer of 1838 Augusta Holmes and her husband set out from Liverpool with the intention of riding all the way to Italy on horseback. The equestrian venture, described in detail in Holmes' narrative, took eight months, during.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 87; NCBEL II, 832; ODNB. Playwright and confidante of Horace Walpole, Lady Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), began her famous travels through the Crimea to Constantinople in 1783 and traveled constantly the remainder of her life, visiting almost every country in Europe, often.....
London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. First edition. Colbert; NCBEL II, 694. The final work on France by Helen Maria Williams, first English woman to write about the upheavals of the French Revolution when she traveled there in 1790. She later became repulsed by Robespierre and the reign of terror.....
London: John Murray, 1820. First edition. Colbert; ODNB; Robinson, pages 194-95; Pine-Coffin 792-5. Mariana Starke (1762-1838) was a budding playwright when she moved to Italy in 1792 to care for an ailing relative. Her stay there inspired Letters from Italy Between the Years 1792 and 1798 (1800; revised 1815), a......
London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher; New York: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. First American edition. NCBEL III, 769; Robinson, pages 197-98; Sabin 97028; American Imprints 15041; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 3, 112; Colbert; ODNB. Frances Trollope (1780-1863) traveled to America in 1827 with several children in tow.....