New York (State) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
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A Brief Description of New-York, Formerly Called New-Netherlands (London: Printed for John Hancock, 1670), by Daniel Denton (PDF at unl.edu)- A Brief Description of New-York: Reproduced From the Original Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (Facsimile Text Society publication #40; 1937), by Daniel Denton, contrib. by Victor Hugo Paltsits (page images at HathiTrust)
- New York Considered and Improved, A. D. 1695, by John Miller, ed. by Victor Hugo Paltsits (PDF at unl.edu)
- Voyages from Holland to America, A. D. 1632 to 1644 (1853), by David Pietersz. de Vries, trans. by Henry Cruse Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians, and a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856), by Isaac Jogues and John Gilmary Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: New York (State) -- Description and travel- Country Margins and Rambles of a Journalist, by S. H. Hammond (page images at MOA)
- Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice Made By Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels From Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada: To Which Is Annex'd a Curious Account of the Cataracts At Niagara By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish Gentleman Who Travelled There (London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1751), by John Bartram and Pehr Kalm
- A Tour From the City of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, Made Between the 2d of May and the 22d of September, 1818, by William Darby (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- A Two Years Journal in New-York, and Part of its Territories in America, by Charles Wooley, ed. by Edward Gaylord Bourne (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
- A Two Years Journal in New York, and Part of its Territories in America (New York: W. Gowans, 1860), by Charles Wooley, ed. by E. B. O'Callaghan
- Five Years' Residence in the Canadas: Including a Tour Through Part of the United States of America, in the Year 1823 (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824), by Edward Allen Talbot
- Henry, or, The Juvenile Traveller (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1836), by Mrs. Henry Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sketches of Upper Canada, Domestic, Local, and Characteristic: to Which Are Added, Practical Details for the Information of Emigrants of Every Class: and Some Recollections of the United States of America (Edinburgh; London: Oliver & Boyd ... ;G. & W.B. Whittaker ... , 1821), by John Howison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Scenes in My Native Land (Boston: J. Munroe and company, 1845), by L. H. Sigourney (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
- A Hoosier Holiday (first issue, with a WW1 reference that later issues changed; New York and London: J. Lane Co., 1916), by Theodore Dreiser, illust. by Franklin Booth (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Old Roads From the Heart of New York: Journeys Today by Ways of Yesterday, Within Thirty Miles Around the Battery (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Sarah Comstock (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- The Adirondack: or, Life in the Woods, by J. T. Headley (page images at MOA)
- Adventures in the Wilderness, by W. H. H. Murray (page images at MOA)
- Woods and Waters: or, The Saranacs and Racket, by Alfred Billings Street (page images at MOA)
- Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, As They Existed Previous to the Revolution (New York: G. Dearborn, 1836), by Anne MacVicar Grant (HTML and page images at LOC)
- The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers (9th edition; Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1817), by Zadok Cramer (page images at Missouri)
- History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
- The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo (Buffalo: Buffalo Historical Society, 1912), ed. by Frank H. Severance (page images at Cornell)
- The Catskills (New York: The Century Co., 1918), by T. Morris Longstreth (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
- The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around (New York: Taintor Brothers, 1869), by Charles Rockwell (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
- History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
- The Hudson, From the Wilderness to the Sea (Troy, NY: H. B. Nims and Co., n.d.), by Benson J. Lossing (multiple formats at archive.org)
- New York is Not America: Being a Mirror to the States (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1927), by Ford Madox Ford (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The Color of a Great City (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1923), by Theodore Dreiser, illust. by C. B. Falls (multiple formats at archive.org)
- De Paris au Niagara: Journal de Voyage d'une Délégation (in French; Paris: A. Dupret, 1887), by Charles Bigot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Journey of the Iconophiles Around New York in Search of the Historical and Picturesque (New York: Gillis Press, 1897), by William Loring Andrews
- Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City (c1872), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Loiterer in New York: Discoveries Made by a Rambler Through Obvious Yet Unsought Highways and Byways (New York: G. H. Doran Company, c1917), by Helen W. Henderson, contrib. by Paul Wayland Bartlett
- New York (London: A. and C. Black, 1911), by Hildegarde Hawthorne, illust. by Martin Lewis
- New York in Slices (New York: W. F. Burgess, 1849), by George G. Foster (page images at MOA)
- The Picture of New-York: or, The Traveller's Guide Through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States (New York: I. Riley and Co., 1807), by Samuel L. Mitchill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City, by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text)
- Sunshine and Shadow in New York (1869), by Matthew Hale Smith (page images at MOA)
- Coney Island (1999), by Professor Solomon (PDF with commentary at professorsolomon.com)
- Municipal Government of the City of New York (revised edition; Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1916), by Abby Gunn Baker and Abby Huntington Ware (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Coney Island (1999), by Professor Solomon (PDF with commentary at professorsolomon.com)
- Niagara Park Illustrated: Original and Selected Descriptions, Poems and Adventures (New York: W. T. Hunter, 1888), ed. by Alice Hyneman Sotheran (page images at HathiTrust)
- De Paris au Niagara: Journal de Voyage d'une Délégation (in French; Paris: A. Dupret, 1887), by Charles Bigot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Description of Views of the Falls of Niagara and the City of Jerusalem: Now Exhibiting in the Large Circle of the Panorama, Leicester Square (London: Printed by W. J. Goldbourn, 1851), by Robert Burford, contrib. by Henry Courtney Selous
- Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice Made By Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels From Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada: To Which Is Annex'd a Curious Account of the Cataracts At Niagara By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish Gentleman Who Travelled There (London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1751), by John Bartram and Pehr Kalm
- Whirlpool Heights: The Dream House on the Niagara (London: G. Allen and Unwin Ltd., c1915), by Julia Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Simcoe Relic Among the Thousand Isles in 1796: Fragment of a MS. Journal of Mrs. Simcoe (1896), by Elizabeth Simcoe, ed. by Henry Scadding (multiple formats at archive.org)
- America Dissected: Being a Full and True Account of All the American Colonies (Dublin: S. Powell, 1753), by James MacSparran (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Traveller: or, Observations on the Present State, Culture and Commerce of the British Colonies in America, and the Further Improvements of Which They Are Capable (London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, and J. Almon, 1769), by Alexander Clúny (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Journal of an Excursion to the United States of North America in the Summer of 1794 (Salisbury: J. Easton, 1796), by Henry Wansey (page images in Germany)
- A Tour in the United States of America: Containing an Account of the Present Situation of That Country (2 volumes; London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1784), by John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
- Travels into North America: Containing its Natural History, and a Circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in General; With the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country, the Manners of the Inhabitants, and Several Curious and Important Remarks on Various Subjects (3 volumes; 1770-1771), by Pehr Kalm, trans. by Johann Reinhold Forster
- Travels into North America: Containing its Natural History, and a Circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in General; With the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country, the Manners of the Inhabitants, and Several Curious and Important Remarks on Various Subjects (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Lowndes, 1772), by Pehr Kalm, trans. by Johann Reinhold Forster
- Travels Through the Middle Settlements in North America, in the Years 1759 and 1760; With Observations Upon the State of the Colonies (London: Printed for T. Payne, 1775), by Andrew Burnaby (page images in Germany)
- A View of North America, in Its Former Happy, and Its Present Belligerent State: Being a Compendious Description of the Several Cultivated Colonies, Previous to These Disturbances (Glasgow: Printed by W. Smith, 1781) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters From An American Farmer, by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (Gutenberg text)
- An Apology for the Life of Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew, Commonly Call'd the King of Beggars (sixth edition, with additions; London: Printed for R. Goadby and W. Owen, ca. 1765)
- The British Empire in America: Containing the History of the Discovery, Settlement, Progress and Present State of All the British Colonies on the Continent and Islands of America (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nicholson et al., 1708), by Mr. Oldmixon, illust. by Herman Moll
- The British Empire in America: Containing the History of the Discovery, Settlement, Progress and State of the British Colonies on the Continent and Islands of America (second edition, corrected and amended, 2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Brotherton et al., 1741), by Mr. Oldmixon, illust. by Herman Moll
- Das Britische Reich in America: Worinnen Enthalten die Geschichte der Entdeckung, der Aufrichtung, des Anwachses und Zustandes der Englischen Colonien auf dem Festen Lande und den Insuln von America (2 volumes in German; Lemgo: J. H. Meyer, 1744), by Mr. Oldmixon, contrib. by Theodor Arnold, illust. by Herman Moll
- Das Brittische Reich in America, Sammt dem Eroberten Canada mit Denen Wichtigen Inseln, Gadaloupe, Martinique und Andern See-Plätzen: oder, Kurzgefasste Beschreibung der Engländischen Pflantzstädte Sammt Ihrer Macht, Geschichte und Handlung in Nord-America (in German; Żary: G. Hebold, 1761), by Mr. Oldmixon
- Das Brittische Reich in Amerika: oder, Kurzgefasste Beschreibung der Engländischen Pflanzstädte Samt Ihrer Macht, Geschichte und Mandlung in Nord-Amerika (in German; Leipzig: Leipziger Ostermesse, 1756), by Mr. Oldmixon
- Gross-Brittannisches America, Nach Seiner Erfindung, Bevölckerung und Allerneuestem Zustand (in German; Hamburg: Z. Hertels, 1710), by Mr. Oldmixon, trans. by Ludwig Friedrich Vischer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Het Britannische Ryk in Amerika Zynde eene Beschryving van de Ontedekking, Bevolking, Inwoonders, het Klimaat, den Koophandel, en Tegenwordigen Staat van Alle de Britannischen Coloniën in dat Gedeelte der Wereldt (2 volumes in Dutch; Amsterdam: R. en G. Wetstein, 1721), by Mr. Oldmixon, trans. by Rudolf Wetstein and Gerard Wetstein
- An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies (4 volumes; London: Printed for the editor et al., 1795), by William Winterbotham
- An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for the compiler, 1799), by William Winterbotham (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West Indies (4 volumes; New York: Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien for J. Reid, 1796), by William Winterbotham
- Memoirs of the Life of Catherine Phillips; To Which Are Added Some of Her Epistles (London: J. Phillips and Son, 1797), by Catharine Phillips
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