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James Silk Buckingham

(Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855)

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James Silk Buckingham (25 August 1786 – 30 June 1855) was a British author, journalist and traveller, known for his contributions to Indian journalism. He was a pioneer among the Europeans who fought for a liberal press in India. (From Wikipedia)

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James Silk Buckingham, 1786-1855; a social biography. (Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1934), by Ralph Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
Alleged retainer from the East India Company ([London, 1830), by James Silk Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
Explanatory report on the plan and object of Mr. Buckingham's lectures on the Oriental World : preceded by a sketch of his life, travels, and writings, and of the proceedings on the East India monopoly, during the past year. (Hurst, Chance, 1830), by James Silk Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
Mr. Buckingham's claims. (Printed by C. Whiting, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
A sketch of the history of the Indian press during the last ten years : with a biographical account of Mr. James Silk Buckingham (William Low, 1830), by Sandford Arnot (page images at HathiTrust)
Outline sketch of the voyages, travels, writings, and public labours of James Silk Buckingham (P. Jackson, 1848), by James Silk Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the public proceedings on the question of the East India monopoly, during the past year : with an outline of Mr. Buckingham's extempore descriptions of the Oriental world. (Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1830), by James Silk Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by James Silk Buckingham:

Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: The Slave States of America (2 volumes; London and Paris, Fisher, Son and Co., ca. 1842)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia (second edition, 2 volumes; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by James Silk Buckingham in the extended shelves:

Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Alabama in the 1830's as recorded by British travellers (Birmingham-Southern college, 1938), also by Walter Brownlow Posey, Harriet Martineau, George William Featherstonhaugh, Tyrone Power, Thomas Hamilton, and James Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Alleged retainer from the East India Company ([London, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: America historical, statistic, and descriptive. (Fisher, son & co., 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: America, historical, statistic, and descriptive. (Harper & Brothers, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: America, historical, statistic, and descriptive (Fisher, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: America, historical statistic and descriptive (Harper & Brothers, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Appeal to the British nation, on the greatest reform yet remaining to be accomplished. Read and adopted at the World's convention, held in London, August, 1846. (Ridgway, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: The Athenaeum : a journal of literature, science, the fine arts, music, and the drama. (J. Francis [etc.], 1828), also by John Middleton Murry, Vernon Horace Rendall, Norman Maccoll, William Hepworth Dixon, Thomas Kibble Hervey, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Henry Stebbing, Frederick Denison Maurice, and John Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham; including his voyages, travels, adventures, speculations, successes and failures, faithfully and frankly narrated; interspersed with characteristic sketches of public men with whom he has had intercourse, during a period of more than fifty years ... (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland, and Holland : an autumnal tour (P. Jackson, L. Fisher, Son, & Co., 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: The buried city of the East, Nineveh: a narrative of the discoveries of Mr. Layard and M. Botta at Nimroud and Khorsabad (National Illustrated Library, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and other British provinces in North America with a plan of national colonization (Fisher, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other British provinces in North America; with a plan of national colonization (Fisher, son, & co., 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other British provinces in North America; with a plan of national colonization. (Fisher, son, & co., 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: A copius report of lectures on the eastern world. Delivered in Liverpool on the 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th January, 1829. (E. Smith & co., printers, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: The eastern and western states of America (Fisher, Son & Co., 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Evidence on drunkenness, presented to the House of Commons (Bagster, 1834), also by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Evils and remedies of the present system of popular elections : with a sketch of the qualifications and duties of representatives and constituents : to which is added, an address on the proposed reforms in the commerce and finance of the country (Simpkin, Marshall, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Explanatory report on the plan and object of Mr. Buckingham's lectures on the Oriental World : preceded by a sketch of his life, travels, and writings, and of the proceedings on the East India monopoly, during the past year. (Hurst, Chance, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: History and progress of the temperance reformation, in Great Britain and other countries of the globe with statistical and documentary evidence of its beneficial results, and a plea for a Maine law to enforce the suppression of all traffic in intoxicating drinks (Partridge, Oakey, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: History and progress of the temperance reformation in Great Britain and other countries of the globe : with statistical and documentary evidence of its beneficial results, and a plea for a Maine law to enforce the suppression of all traffic in intoxicating drinks (Partridge, Oakey, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: History of the public proceedings on the question of the East India monopoly, during the past year : with an outline of Mr. Buckingham's extempore descriptions of the Oriental world. (Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: National evils and practical remedies, with the plan of a model town ... accompanied by an examination of some important moral and political problems ... (P. Jackson, late Fisher, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Notes of the Buckingham lectures: embracing sketches of the geography, antiquities, and present condition of Egypt and Palestine (Leavitt, Lord, & Co., 1838), also by James Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Oriental herald & journal of general literature (J. M. Richardson [etc.], 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Outline sketch of the voyages, travels, writings, and public labours of James Silk Buckingham (P. Jackson, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Parliamentary review. (Simpkin and Marshall., 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Plan of an improved income tax and real free-trade, with an equitable mode of redeeming the national debt ... (J. Ridgway, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Public address, delivered by Mr. Buckingham, in defence of his lectures on Palestine against the criticisms of the Reverend Eli Smith, published anonymously in The New York Observer, in 1839 : delivered at the Lyceum of New York, on Wednesday, Jan. 1840. (W. Molineux, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Reisen durch Syrien und Palestina ... (Verlage des Landes - Industrie, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Reisen in Palästina : Aus dem Englischen des Herrn Buckingham. (In der Bran'schen Buchhandlung, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Sketch of a plan for effecting a voyage round the globe, by the route of India, China, Japan, and the Pacific Isles, for the purpose of discovery, civilization, and commerce, combined. ([London : s.n., 1830?], 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: The slave states of America (Fisher, 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: The slave states of America. (Fisher, Son & Co., 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: The slave States of America (Negro Universities Press, 1968) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Speech of Mr. Buckingham on the extent, causes and effects of drunkenness, delivered in the House of Commons on June 3, 1834. ([London?, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Speech of Mr. Buckingham on the extent, causes, and effects of drunkenness : delivered in the House of Commons, June 3, 1834. (W. Collins, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Tableau pittoresque de l'Inde; ou, description géographique, statistique, commerciale, moral et politique de l'Indostan. Traduit de l'Anglais ... (Librairie Encyclopédique, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Tableau pittoresque de l'Inde; ou, Description géographique, statistique, commerciale, morale et politique de l'Indoustan ... (Poulton-de-L'Épée, 1835), also by Benjamin Laroche (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels among the Arab tribes inhabiting the countries east of Syria and Palestine (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels among the Arab tribes inhabiting the countries east of Syria and Palestine (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), also by Andrew Dickson White (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia (H. Colburn, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay. (London, H. Colburn, 1829. [Farnborough, Hants., Gregg International Publishers, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the seashore; description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat; narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian sea to Bombay. (Colburn, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Mesopotamia. Including a journey from Aleppo, across the Euphrates to Orfah, (the Ur of the Chaldees) through the plains of the Turcomans, to Diarbekr, in Asia Minor; from thence to Mardin, on the borders of the Great Desert (H. Colburn, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Mesopotamia. Including a journey from Aleppo, across the Euphrates to Orfah,(the Ur of the Chaldees) through the plains of the Turcomans, to Diarbekr, in Asia Minor; from thence to Mardin, on the borders of the Great Desert, and by the Tigris to Mousul and Bagdad: with researches on the ruins of Babylon, Nineveh, Arbela, Ctesiphon, and Seleucia. (Gregg , 1971) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Mesopotamia : including a journey from Aleppo to Bagdad, by the route of Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr, Mardin & Mousul : with researches on the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and other ancient cities (H. Colburn, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Palestine, through the countries of Bashan and Cilead, east of the River Jordan; including a visit to the cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Palestine : through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the River Jordan, including a visit to the cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Palestine through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the River Jordan : including a visit to the cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis (London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1821., 1821) (page images at HathiTrust)
Buckingham, James Silk, 1786-1855: Travels in Palestine through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the River Jordan; including a visit to the cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis. (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)

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