Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
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A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane (facsimile reproduction of the 1722 edition, with new introductions and index; Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1976), by Daniel Coxe, contrib. by William S. Coker, Polly Coker, and Samuel Proctor (page images at HathiTrust)- A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards Call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane; as Also of the Great and Famous River Meschacebe or Missisipi, The Five Vast Navigable Lakes of Fresh Water, and the Parts Adjacent (London: Printed for B. Cowse, 1722), by Daniel Coxe
- A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards Called Florida, and by the French La Louisiane; as Also of the Great and Famous River Meschacebe or Mississippi, The Five Vast Navigable Lakes of Fresh Water, and the Parts Adjacent (American edition; St. Louis: Churchill and Harris, 1840), by Daniel Coxe
- Journal of a Voyage to North-America (London: Printed for R. and J, Dodlsey, 1761), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
- Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres Giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada, and Travels Through That Vast Country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico (London: Printed for R. Goadby, 1763), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix
- A Collection of Voyages and Travels, in Three Parts (London: O. Payne, 1741), by Thomas James, Jean-Bernard-Louis Desjean Pointis, and Daniel Coxe (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel- Journey in North America, Containing a Survey of the Countries Watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Other Affluing Rivers (Paris: Printed for Arthus Bertrand, 1826), by Georges-Henri-Victor Collot
- The Ohio and Mississippi Pilot: Consisting of a Set of Charts of Those Rivers, Representing Their Channels, Islands, Ripples, Rapids, Shoals, Bars, Rocks, &c. Accompanied With Directions for the Use of Navigators; To Which is Added, A Geography of the States and Territories, West and South of the Allegheny Mountains (Pittsburgh: R. Patterson and Lambdin, 1820), by J. C. Gilleland
- Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi (Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company, 1826), by Timothy Flint (page images in Germany)
- A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America (second edition, with considerable additions; includes most of Filson's book on Kentucky; London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1793), by Gilbert Imlay, contrib. by John Filson and Daniel Boone
- A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America (third edition, with considerable additions; includes most of Filson's book on Kentucky, and other works; London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1797), by Gilbert Imlay, contrib. by John Filson, Jonathan Heart, Thomas Hutchins, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Kennedy
- A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (Boston: J. Norman, 1787), by Thomas Hutchins
- Tourist's Guide to the Upper Mississippi River, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811 (second edition; London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1819), by John Bradbury, contrib. by Ramsay Crooks
- Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 (32 volumes; Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1904-1907), ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mostly Mississippi, by Harold Speakman (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien, Thence to Washington City, in 1829 (Columbus, OH: Isaac N. Whiting, 1831), by Caleb Atwater (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior, by Charles Lanman (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (reprint based on the 1774 edition, with added introduction, captions, and index; New Orleans: Pelican Press, ca. 1947), by Le Page du Pratz, contrib. by Stanley Clisby Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
- Grand Excursion to New Orleans, Reed Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar, Stationed at Dayton, Ohio, on Board the Steamer Thomas Sherlock (Dayton, OH: Journal Steam Job Printing Establishment, 1875), by Knights Templar Reed Commandery No. 6 (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina, by Le Page du Pratz, contrib. by Stanley Clisby Arthur (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lye on Both Sides of the River Mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1763), by Le Page du Pratz
- The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River mississippi, With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products (new edition; London: Printed for T. Becket, 1774), by Le Page du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot From 1854 to 1863 (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909), by George Byron Merrick (page images at Google; US access only)
- Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- Ductor Dubitantium: or, The Rule of Conscience in All Her Generall Measures, Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience (2 volumes; London: Printed R. Royston, 1660), by Jeremy Taylor
- The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
- The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: Printed by J. Reeves for the author, 1753), by William Hogarth
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
- On Taste; On the Sublime and Beautiful; Reflections on the French Revolution; A Letter to a Noble Lord (Harvard Classics v24; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), by Edmund Burke, ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
- Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume I, second edition: HTML at ECCO TCP
- volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: HTML at ECCO TCP
- 2 volumes in 1: page images at HathiTrust
- Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
- The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Caution and Warning to Great-Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (Philadelphia: Printed by H. Miller, 1766), by Anthony Benezet
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (London reprint of 1767), by Anthony Benezet (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1784), by Anthony Benezet
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
- 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
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