Southern States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
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Diary of a Journey Through the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida,From July 1, 1765 to April 10, 1766 (from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1942), by John Bartram, ed. by Francis Harper (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
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Filed under: Southern States -- Description and travel- Travels in Georgia and Florida, 1773-74: A Report to Dr. John Fothergill (from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1943), by William Bartram, ed. by Francis Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
- After the War: A Southern Tour, by Whitelaw Reid (page images at MOA)
- Down South (London: Chapman and Hall, 1883), by Lady Duffus Hardy
- From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics, by J. Milton Mackie (page images at MOA)
- Incidents of a Southern Tour, by H. Cowles Atwater (page images at MOA)
- Jottings of a Year's Sojourn in the South: or, First Impressions of the Country and Its People, by Anson De Puy Van Buren (page images at MOA)
- Letters from the Slave States, by James Stirling (page images at MOA)
- A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration, 1865-1868 (Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1868), by J. T. Trowbridge
- The Slave States of America (2 volumes; London and Paris, Fisher, Son and Co., ca. 1842), by James Silk Buckingham
- The South: A Tour of Its Battle-Fields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks With the People (Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1866), by J. T. Trowbridge (page images at MOA)
- The South Since the War, As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas, by Sidney Andrews (page images at MOA)
- A Winter From Home, by Charles A. Clinton (page images at MOA)
- A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, With Remarks on Their Economy (New York; London: Dix and Edwards; Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1856), by Frederick Law Olmsted (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- South and North: or, Impressions Received During a Trip to Cuba and the South, by John S. C. Abbott (page images at MOA)
- Travels in Lower Canada, With the Author's Recollections of the Soil, and Aspect, the Morals, Habits, and Religious Institutions of That Country (with Cornelius' "Tour in Virginia, Tennessee, etc." London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820), by Joseph Sansom, contrib. by Elias Cornelius (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Western Lands and Western Waters (London: S. O. Beeton, 1864), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Letters of Robert Mackay to His Wife, Written From Ports in America and England, 1795-1816 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), by Robert Mackay, ed. by Walter Charlton Hartridge (PDF at Georgia)
- The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1861), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
- The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1862), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
- A Journey in the Back Country (London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1860), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images in Germany)
- A Journey in the Back Country (New York: Mason Brothers, 1860), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google)
- Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains, in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessea, and Back to Charleston, by the Upper Carolinas (London: Printed by D. N. Shury, for B. Crosby and Co., and J. F. Hughes 1805), by François André Michaux (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Diary of William Fairfax Gray, From Virginia to Texas, 1835-1837, by William Fairfax Gray, ed. by Paul D. Lack (HTML at smu.edu)
- Gleanings from Southland: Sketches of Life and Manners of the People of the South Before, During and After the War of Secession, With Extracts from the Author's Journal, and Epitome of the New South (Birmingham, AL: Roberts and Son, 1895), by Kate Cumming
- Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)
- Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (Philadelphia: Printed by James and Johnson, 1791), by William Bartram (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- 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)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- 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 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
- 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, 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
- The Periplus of Hanno: A Voyage of Discovery Down the West African Coast, by a Carthaginian Admiral of the Fifth Century B.C. (Philadelphia: Commercial Museum, 1912), by Hanno, trans. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
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