Russia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
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Letters From a Lady, Who Resided Some Years in Russia, to Her Friend in England; With Historical Notes (second edition; London: J. Dodsley, 1777), by Mrs. Vigor (multiple formats at Google)- A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople, in a Series of Letters From the Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Craven, to His Serene Highness the Margrave of Brandebourg, Anspach, and Bareith (London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789), by Elizabeth Craven
- Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen; With Some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea (reprint of the 2-volume Hakluyt Society edition of 1886), ed. by E. Delmar Morgan and C. H. Coote, contrib. by Anthony Jenkinson
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Filed under: Russia -- Description and travel- The Scar of Revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Irena Grudzinska-Gross (HTML at UC Press)
- The Borderland of Czar and Kaiser: Notes From Both Sides of the Russian Frontier (New York: Harper and Bros., 1895), by Poultney Bigelow, illust. by Frederic Remington
- The Discovery of Muscovy Etc., contrib. by Richard Hakluyt (Gutenberg text)
- In the Track of the Russian Famine: The Personal Narrative of a Journey Through the Famine Districts of Russia (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), by E. A. Brayley Hodgetts (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Russian and Turkish Journals (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Russian and Turkish Journals (London: J. Murray, 1917), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- New Russia: Journey From Riga to the Crimea, By Way of Kiev; With Some Account of the Colonization and the Manners and Customs of the Colonists of New Russia; To Which are Added, Notes Relating to the Crim Tatars (London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1823), by Mary Holderness (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Present State of Russia (London: W. Taylor, 1722-1723), by Friedrich Christian Weber
- Russia: Travels and Studies (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1906), by Annette M. B. Meakin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Russian Rambles (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895), by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Gutenberg text)
- Six Years' Travels in Russia, by an English Lady (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859), by Mary Ann Pellew Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Through Russia: From St. Petersburg to Astrakhan and the Crimea (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1874), by Mrs. Guthrie
- Through Russia on a Mustang (Boston: Educational Pub. Co., c1891), by Thomas Stevens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Through Russia on a Mustang (New York: Cassell Pub. Co., c1891), by Thomas Stevens
- Travels in Russia, Tartary, and Turkey (new edition; Aberdeen: G. Clark and Son; Ipswich: J. M. Burton, 1848), by Edward Daniel Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
- Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, Saxony, Prussia, Hanover, &c, &c, Undertaken During the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824, While Suffering From Total Blindness, and Comprising an Account of the Author Being Conducted a State Prisoner From the Eastern Parts of Siberia (2 volumes; London: G. B. Whittaker, 1825), by James Holman
- The Englishwoman in Russia: Impressions of the Society and Manners of the Russians at Home (London: J. Murray, 1855), by A Lady (illustrated HTML with interactive map at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Englishwoman in Russia: Impressions of the Society and Manners of the Russians at Home (New York: C. Scribner, 1855), by A Lady (page images at Google)
- A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic, Described in a Series of Letters (2 volumes in 1; London: John Murray, 1841), by Elizabeth Eastlake (multiple formats at Google)
- Through Bolshevik Russia (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1920), by Ethel Snowden
- A Tramp's Sketches (1913), by Stephen Graham (Gutenberg text)
- Travels from St. Petersburg, in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia (1763), by John Bell
- Eines Deutschen Hauslehrers Pilgerschaft Durch Land und Leben (1792-1818) (in German; Reval: F. Kluge's Verlag, 1913), by Christian Carl Ludwig Klee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Russia Then and Now, 1892-1917: My Mission to Russia During the Famine of 1891-1892, With Data Bearing Upon Russia of To-Day (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Francis B. Reeves (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (first edition; Boston: The author, 1850), by Nancy Prince (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (second edition; Boston: The author, 1853), by Nancy Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
- Russia Route Zone A: Murman Railway and Kola Peninsula (Washington: GPO, 1918), by United States War Department Military Intelligence Division
- 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: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
- 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
- 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 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 (Gutenberg text)
- 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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