WOMEN TRAVELERS, 1692-1850: Fact, Fiction and Verse

A selection of books by women travelers, from 1692 to 1850, to places as far flung as India, Africa, Brazil, Hawaii, North America, the Middle East and . . . Wales, Scotland, the English coast and over the Thames, Westminster Bridge and St. James and Hyde parks in a hot air balloon.

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[ANCRAM, GEORGIANNA MITFORD].

Portugal; or the Young Travellers: Being some Account of Lisbon and its Environs, and of a Tour in the Alemtéjo, in which the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants are Faithfully Detailed. From a Journal kept by a Lady during Three Years’ Actual Residence.

London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1830. First edition. The Dartons, a Bibliographical Checklist, G38. The adventures of three siblings who journey to Portugal with their parents to escape the harsh winter of England. Descriptions of the cities, towns, monuments, their histories and people are interwoven with the story of..... More

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[ANONYMOUS].

The Lowestoft Guide: Containing a Descriptive Account of Lowestoft and its Environs. By a Lady. Embellished with Engravings. J'écris pour l' Etranger.

Yarmouth: Printed and Sold by M. Alexander; Sold Also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Johnson, London, 1812. First and only edition. Colbert; COPAC records four copies (BL, Cambridge, Durham and V. & A.); OCLC adds Boston Athenaeum and New England Historic Genealogical Society. A pocket-size stranger's guide..... More

Price: $150.00

AULNOY, MARIE-CATHERINE.

Ingenious and Diverting Letters of a Lady's Travels into Spain. Describing the Devotions, Nunneries, Humour, Customs, Laws, Militia, Trade, Diet, and Recreations, of that People. Intermix'd with Great Variety of Modern Adventures, and Surprizing Accidents . . . The Eighth Edition.

London: Printed for D. Browne, A. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, J. Pemberton, [et al.], 1717. The eighth edition in English, preceded by editions beginning in 1691; all the 17th century English editions are very scarce. ESTC T79450. This English edition is a testament to the success and resiliency of..... More

Price: $475.00

BAILLIE, MARIANNE.

Lisbon in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823.

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..... More

Price: $975.00

[BERRY, MARY].

A Comparative View of the Social Life of England and France . . . By the Editor of Madame du Deffand’s Letters.

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..... More

Price: $450.00

[BIGGS, RACHEL CHARLOTTE].

A Residence in France, during the Years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795; Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: With General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners. Prepared for the Press by John Gifford, Esq.

London: Printed by J. Plymsell; for T. N. Longman, 1797. First edition. Colbert; ESTC N12984. Rachel Charlotte Biggs was acquainted with France when she traveled by herself there in 1792 to aid an aristocratic lady friend, during which time she witnessed the Revolution during its grim climax. Out of concern..... More

Price: $875.00

BULLOCK, HANNAH ANN.

History of the Isle of Man, with a Comparative View of the Past and Present State of Society and Manners; Containing also Biographical Anecdotes of Eminent Persons Connected with that Island. By H. A. Bullock.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. First edition. Colbert; Goldsmiths'- Kress 21406.4. A comprehensive work on the Isle of Man, its topography, history, mythology, archeology, ruins, commerce, agriculture, rents, salaries for servants (£5-£7 per annum, depending on experience) and the cost of port and wine. Mrs..... More

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[CARLYLE, SUSANNA MARIA, EDITOR].

Poems, Suggested Chiefly by Scenes in Asia-Minor, Syria, and Greece, with Prefaces Extracted from the Author's Journal. Embellished with Two Views . . . By the Late J. D. Carlyle.

London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office; for John White, 1805. First and only edition. Colbert. Topographically inspired poetry about Turkey, Syria and Greece by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1804), posthumously edited by his sister Susanna Maria Carlyle (1752-1833), handsomely printed by William Bulmer and illustrated with two..... More

Price: $500.00

CARMICHAEL, ALISON CHARLES.

Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured, and Negro Population of the West Indies.

London: Whittaker, Treacher, 1834. Second edition, published the year following the first. Sabin 10937; Ragatz, Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, page 221; Colbert, Women Travel Writers, 1780-1840; Robinson, pages 297-298. A "remarkably unsentimental" (Robinson) account of life in St. Vincent and Trinidad between the years 1820 to..... More

Price: $750.00

CRAVEN, LADY ELIZABETH (LATER MARGRCraven, Lady Elizabeth (Later Margravine of Anspach).

Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Written by Herself.

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..... More

Price: $850.00

D'AVOT, MADAME.

Lettres sur L'Angleterre, ou Deux Années a Londres.

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..... More

Price: $450.00

[EATON, CHARLOTTE ANNE].

Narrative of a Residence in Belgium during the Campaign of 1815; and of a Visit to the Field of Waterloo. By an English Woman.

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..... More

Price: $375.00

[GOVION BROGLIO SOLARI, CATHERINE HYDE].

Private Anecdotes of Foreign Courts, by the Author of "Memoirs of the Princesse de Lamballe."

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First and only edition. Colbert. Another colorful travelogue by Catherine Hyde Govion Broglio Solari, written in the same vein as her work on Venice, and a further installment in what became a series by the author of secret memoirs and histories, all based on pirported travels..... More

Price: $400.00

[GOVION BROGLIO SOLARI, CATHERINE HYDE].

Venice under the Yoke of France and of Austria: with Memoirs of the Courts, Governments, & People of Italy . . . By a Lady of Rank.

London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824. First edition. Pine-Coffin 792-8; Colbert. The first travelogue by Catherine Govion Broglio Solari (circa 1755-1844), an entertaining narrative about Italy by an author whose biography is filled with so many inconsistencies and ruses that fact and fiction become difficult to differentiate..... More

Price: $425.00

GRAHAM, MARIA.

Three Months Passed in the Mountains East of Rome, During the Year 1819.

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..... More

Price: $650.00

HOFLAND, BARBARA.

The Young Northern Traveller. Being a Series of Letters from Frederic to Charles, During a Tour Through the North of Europe.

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..... More

Price: $500.00

[HOLMES, AUGUSTA, MRS. DALKEITH].

A Ride on Horseback to Florence through France and Switzerland. Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady.

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..... More

Price: $650.00

JAMESON, ANNA BROWNELL.

Sketches of Germany. Art - Literature - Character.

Frankfort: Printed for Charles Jugel, at the German and Foreign Library, 1837. First separate edition. NCBEL III, 1289; OCLC records three copies (Sutro, Harvard and Toronto); COPAC adds three (BL, Senate House and V. & A.). An interesting German edition of the chapters about Germany from Anna Jameson's Visits and..... More

Price: $550.00

[JAMESON, ANNA BROWNELL].

Diary of an Ennuyée.

London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Second edition, published the same year as the first, but under a different title. Colbert; ODNB; NCBEL III, 1288; not in Wolff, Block or Garside, Raven and Schöwerling. A novel in the form of a travel diary by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) which she states in..... More

Price: $400.00

[KNIGHT, ELLIS CORNELIA].

A Description of Latium or La Campagna de Roma. With Etchings by the Author.

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..... More

Price: $1,250.00

KNOTT, MARY JOHN.

Two Months at Kilkee, a Watering Place in the County Clare, near the Mouth of the Shannon, with an Account of a Voyage Down that River from Limerick to Kilrush, and Sketches of Objects of Interest in the Neighbourhood, which will Serve as a Guide to the Coast Scenery.

Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Richard Tims, [et al.], 1836. First edition. Colbert. The Irish Quaker author Mary John Knott (1783-1853) was known for her charitable work on behalf of the poor, incarcerated and delinquent women, and for her works of fiction and tracts written for the working classes. Only..... More

Price: $375.00

MARTINEAU, HARRIET.

How to Observe. Morals and Manners.

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..... More

Price: $325.00

MARTINEAU, HARRIET.

Retrospect of Western Travel.

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..... More

Price: $475.00

[MILLER, ANNA RIGGS, LADY].

Letters from Italy, Describing the Manners, Customs, Antiquities, Paintings, &c., of that Country, in the Years MDCCLXX and MDCCLXXI, to a Friend Residing in France, By an English Woman.

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..... More

Price: $750.00

MORRELL, ABBY JANE.

Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific, in the Years 1829, 1830, 1831.

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... More

Price: $975.00

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