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• A Descriptive Catalogue (Giving a Full Explanation) of Rackstrow's Museum (1792), by Benjamin Rackstrow (page images at NIH)

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• Museum Britannicum: Being an Exhibition of a Great Variety of Antiquities and Natural Curiosities, Belonging to That Noble and Magnificent Cabinet, the British Museum (London: Printed by I. Moore for the authors, 1778), by Jan van Rymsdyk and Andreas van Rymsdyk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Museum Britannicum: or, A Display in Thirty-Two Plates, in Antiquities and Natural Curiosities, in the Noble and Magnificent Cabinet, the British Museum, After the Original Designs From Nature (second edition, revised and corrected; London: Printed for the editor by J. Moore, 1791), by Jan van Rymsdyk and Andreas van Rymsdyk, ed. by P. Boyle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Reign of the Beast: The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2024), by Adrian J. Desmond (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• What to See in England: A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association (1908), by Gordon Home (Gutenberg text)

• Handbook for Berkshire: Including Windsor, Reading, Maidenhead, Bray, Newbury, Aldworth, the Downs, the Ridgeway, Abingdon, Faringdon, Buckland, Cumnor, etc. (London: E. Stanford, 1902), by John Meade Falkner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Guide, or Picture of Bristol, with the Beauties of Clifton: A Descriptive Arrangement of Excursions in Their Vicinities (fourth edition; Bristol, UK: Aitkens, et al., 1828), by John Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Picture of Bristol: or, a Guide to Objects of Curiosity and Interest in Bristol, Clifton, the Hotwells and Their Vicinity; Including Biographical Notices of Eminent Natives (second edition; Bristol, UK: Printed for W. Sheppard, et al., 1818), by John Evans (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Concise Guide to the Town and University of Cambridge, in an Introduction and Four Walks (third edition; Cambridge, UK: Macmillan and Bowes, 1906), by John Willis Clark
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Companion and Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland: To the Lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, and of the Curiosities in the District of Craven, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, To Which is Added, A More Particular Description of Scotland, Especially That Part of It, Called the Highlands (London: Printed for the author, 1799), by Sarah Murray (page images at Google)

• Warwick and Leamington (New York: Dodge Publishing Company, ca. 1920), by George Morley, illust. by E. W. Haslehust (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to London and its Environs (41st edition; London: Ward, Lock and Co., ca. 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; foldouts might not be scanned)

• The Ambulator: or, The Stranger's Companion in a Tour Round London (second edition; London: Printed for J. Bew, 1782) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney (from the Fascination of London series; London: A. and C. Black, 1903), by G. E. Mitton and Cunningham Geikie, ed. by Walter Besant (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney (from the Fascination of London series; London: A. and C. Black, 1903), by G. E. Mitton and Cunningham Geikie, ed. by Walter Besant (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Authorised Guide to the Tower of London (revised edition; London: Printed for HMSO by Harrison and Sons, 1904, reprinted 1907), by W. J. Loftie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Ambulator: or, The Stranger's Companion in a Tour Round London (second edition; London: Printed for J. Bew, 1782) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Manchester in 1915: Being the Handbook for the Eighty-Fifth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Held in Manchester, September Seven to Ten, 1915; With an Appendix Containing the Programme of the Meeting (Manchester, UK: At the University Press; London et al.: Longmans, Green anc Co.,, 1915), by British Association for the Advancement of Science, ed. by H. M. McKechnie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Warwick and Leamington (New York: Dodge Publishing Company, ca. 1920), by George Morley, illust. by E. W. Haslehust (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• The Medals of Creation: or, First Lessons in Geology, and in the Study of Organic Remains (2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1844), by Gideon Algernon Mantell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London (London: Grant Richard, 1899), by Lieut.-Col. Newnham-Davis (HTML at victorianlondon.org)