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Geography -- History

Here are entered works on the history of geography as a discipline.

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• Geography
• History

• Early maps
• Geography -- Fieldwork -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island -- History

• Mediaeval Researches From Eastern Asiatic Sources: Fragments Towards the Knowledge of the Geography and History of Central and Western Asia From the 13th to the 17th Century (2 volumes; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1910), by E. Bretschneider
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Die Italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Kartographie und Nautik (in German and Italian; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1909), by Konrad Kretschmer
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Antique Maps (based on the third edition, 1989), by Carl Moreland and David Bannister (illustrated HTML at AntiqueMaps.co.uk)

• Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography (Everyman's library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), contrib. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg illustrated HTML and page images)

• Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography (Everyman's library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), contrib. by Samuel Butler (Gutenberg illustrated HTML and page images)

• Baffin Island: Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-1967 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), by Jack D. Ives (PDF with commentary at University of Calgary)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Geographical Essays (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1909), by William Morris Davis, ed. by Douglas Wilson Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• School Geography of the World (new edition; London et al.: T. Nelson & Sons; Halifax: A. and W. MacKinlay, 1893), by John B. Calkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Strategic Geography of the Great Powers (Based on a Lecture Delivered During 1917 to Officers of the Grand Fleet and of the British Armies in France) (London: G. Philip and Son, Ltd.; Liverpool: Philip, Son and Nephew, Ltd., 1918), by Vaughan Cornish
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Voyages and Travels: or, Scenes in Many Lands (2 volumes in 4; Boston: E. W. Walker, c1887), ed. by Leo de Colange
  • volume 1 part 1, and volume 2: page images at HathiTrust
  • volume 1 part 2: page images at HathiTrust
• From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People (abridged and edited translation; London et al.: Macmillan, 1914), by Sven Anders Hedin (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Remarks on the American Universal Geography (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1793), by James Freeman (page images in Germany)

• Land Resources of the People's Republic of China, ed. by Kenneth Ruddle and Wu Chuanjun (illustrated HTML at UNU Press)

• Cyclopedia of Universal Geography: Being a Gazetteer of the World, Based on the Latest Censuses, and Other Authentic Sources of Information (second edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1855), ed. by Theophilus C. Callicot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hand-Book of Universal Geography: Being a Gazetteer of the World, Based on the Census of the United States, England and France, for 1851 (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v5; New York: G.P. Putnam and Co., 1853), ed. by Theophilus C. Callicot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Imperial Gazetteer: A General Dictionary of Geography, Physical, Political, Statistical and Descriptive (2 volumes; Glasgow et al.: Blackie and Son, 1855), ed. by W. G. Blackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (18th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (19th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference (new and revised dition; 3 volumes; New York: C. Childs, 1850), contrib. by Edwin Williams, I. Daniel Rupp, Lyman Cobb, Hugh Moore, and Samuel L. Knapp
  • Volume I (Universal Gazetteer, etc.): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (English Grammar and Dictionary, etc.): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (Million of Facts, etc.): multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Guthrie's Universal Geography, Improved: Being a New System of Modern Geography, or a Geographcial, Historical and Commercial Grammar, and Present State of All the Several Kingdoms of the World (new edition; London: Printed for the proprietors, 1795), by William Guthrie and James Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Histoire Universelle du Monde (in French; Paris: G. Mallot, 1570), by François de Belleforest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A New Geographical, Historical and Commercial Grammar, and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World (19th edition (Guthrie and Ferguson credited on title page, but compilation widely attributed to Knox); London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson and J. Mawman, 1801), by William Guthrie and James Ferguson, contrib. by John Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hakluytus Posthumus, or, Purchas His Pilgrimes (4 volumes; London: Imprinted for H. Fetherston, 1625), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• La Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano (with related works, in Spanish; Anuers: I. Withagio, 1575), by Peter Apian, ed. by Frisius Gemma, contrib. by Francisco López de Gómara and Gerónimo Girava (page images at HathiTrust)
• Purchas His Pilgrimage (London: Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1626), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Geography, by Strabo (HTML at Perseus)
• Polycronicon (very early English printed edition; 1495), by Ranulf Higden, trans. by John Trevisa (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mandeville's Travels, Translated From the French of Jean d'Outremeuse, Edited From MS. Cotton Titus c.XVI, in the British Museum (EETS original series #153 and #154; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, 1919-1923), by John Mandeville, ed. by P. Hamelius, contrib. by Jean d'Outremeuse (2 volumes in 1: multiple formats at archive.org)
• Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; Together With the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century (9 volumes, in English and Latin; London: Longman et al., 1865-1886), by Ranulf Higden, ed. by Churchill Babington and J. Rawson Lumby, trans. by John Trevisa
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 9: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in Modern Spelling (London and New York: Macmillan, 1900), by John Mandeville
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• An Astronomical and Geographical Catechism (second edition; Boston: S. Hall, 1796), by Caleb Bingham (page images in Florida)
• An Astronomical and Geographical Catechism, For the Use of Children (Boston: S. Hall, 1795), by Caleb Bingham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)

• Book of Nations, for Children (Pittsfield, MA: E. Werden, 1848), by Elias Irish Werden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Geographical Reader, for the Dixie Children (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar & Co., 1863), by M. B. Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Geography for Beginners (Richmond: J. W. Randolph, 1864), by K. J. Stewart (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The World of Waters: or, A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1852), by Fanny Osborne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Astronomical and Geographical Catechism (second edition; Boston: S. Hall, 1796), by Caleb Bingham (page images in Florida)
• An Astronomical and Geographical Catechism, For the Use of Children (Boston: S. Hall, 1795), by Caleb Bingham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Book About America (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1850), by Rufus Merrill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ten Institute Lessons in Geography and U. S. History (1888), by W. F. L. Sanders
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Acta Geographica Slovenica (full serial archives)
• Die Erde (partial serial archives)
• Erdkunde (in German and English) (partial serial archives)
• Estudios Geográficos (in Spanish) (partial serial archives)
• Fennia (partial serial archives)
• Glasnik (Serbian Geographical Society publication, in Serbian) (partial serial archives)
• The World Factbook, by United States Central Intelligence Agency (partial serial archives)
• Annales de Géographie (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Geografski Zbornik (full serial archives)
• Revue de Géographie de Lyon (in French) (full serial archives)
• The California Geographer (full serial archives)
• Annals of the Association of American Geographers (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Geography (partial serial archives)
• Geografiska Annaler (partial serial archives)
• The Geographical Journal (partial serial archives)
• Geographical Review (partial serial archives)
• Geographische Zeitschrift (partial serial archives)
• Geographisches Jahrbuch (partial serial archives)
• National Geographic (partial serial archives)
• Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Québec (in French and some English) (partial serial archives)
• Geography (partial serial archives)
• The Geographical Teacher (full serial archives)
• Bulletin of the American Geographical Society (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London (full serial archives)
• Revue de Géographie Jointe au Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Lyon et de la Région Lyonnaise (in French) (full serial archives)
• Les Études Rhodaniennes (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (full serial archives)
• Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (full serial archives)
• The Wide World Magazine (partial serial archives)

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