Historical Books — 32 Hermus Documents Found
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Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the years 1806 and 1807. By F.A. de Chateaubriand. Translated from the French by F. Shoberl. Embellished with a map, and three copper and four wood engravings.
Date: Saturday, January 01, 1814 Genre: Travel literature Author: -
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A new gazetteer of the Eastern continent; or, A geographical dictionary: containing, in alphabetical order, a description of all the countries, kingdoms, states, cities, towns, principal rivers, lakes, harbors, mountains, &c. &c. in Europe, Asia, Africa, with their adjacent islands. Carefully compiled from the best authorities. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. A.A.S. S.H.S. author of the American universal geography and American gazetteer. And Elijah Parish, D.D. pastor of the church in Byfield, Newbury. Illustrated with maps, and accompanied by a new and elegant general atlas of the world, containing, in a separate volume, sixty-three maps, and comprising all the new discoveries to the present time. Designed as a second volume to the American gazetteer.
Date: Friday, January 01, 1808 Genre: Gazetteers Author: -
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Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, during the years 1806 and 1807. By F.A. de Chateubriand. Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl.
Date: Friday, January 01, 1813 Genre: Travel literature Author: -
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. In eight volumes. Vol. I[-VIII].
Date: Monday, January 01, 1816 Genre: Autobiographies Author: -
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Plutarch's lives, translated from the original Greek; with notes critical and historical, and a life of Plutarch. By John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne, A.M. In eight volumes. Vol. I[-VIII].
Date: Tuesday, January 01, 1811 Genre: Biographies Author: -
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A memoir on the commerce and navigation of the Black Sea, and the trade and maritime geography of Turkey and Egypt. In two volumes. Illustrated with charts. By Henry A.S. Dearborn. [Three lines in French from Sicard] Vol. I[-II].
Date: Friday, January 01, 1819 Genre: Maps Author: -
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The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians. By Mr. Rollin, late principal of the University of Paris, professor of eloquence in the Royal College, and member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French. In eight volumes. Vol. I[-VIII].
Date: Thursday, January 01, 1807 Genre: Maps Author: -
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The American universal geography, or, A view of the present state of all the kingdoms, states, and colonies in the known world. In two volumes. The first volume contains a copious introduction, adapted to the present improved state of astronomical science--a brief geography of the earth--a general description of America--an account of North-America, and its various divisions, particularly of the United States--a general account of the West-Indies, and of the four groupes [sic] of islands into which they are naturally divided, and a minute account of the several islands--a general description of South-America, and a particular account of its various states and provinces--and a brief description of the remaining American islands. The second volume contains a geography of the Eastern continent--a general description of Europe, and a minute account of its various kingdoms and states--a general description of Asia, its kingdoms, provinces, and islands--an account of the numerous islands arranged by modern geographers under the names of Austral Asia and Polynesia--a general description of Africa, and a particular account of its various states and islands. To which are added an abridgement of the last census of the United States--a chronological table of remarkable events from the creation to this time--an improved list of ancient and modern learned and eminent men--and a copious index to the whole work. The whole comprehending a complete system of modern geography. Accompanied by a new and elegant general atlas of the world, containing (in a separate volume,) sixty three maps, comprising, as far as they could be obtained, all the latest discoveries to the present time. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. F.A.A. S.H.S. Minister of the Congregational church in Charlestown. Sixth edition. Arranged on a new plan, and improved in every part by a laborious examination of most of the late respectable voyages and travels, in Europe and Asia, by a free use of the information in the abridgement of Pinkerton's excellent geography, and by the admirable statistical tables of Hassel. Volume I[-II].
Date: Wednesday, January 01, 1812 Genre: Gazetteers Author: -
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Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Part the second. Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Section I.
Date: Saturday, January 01, 1814 Genre: Travel literature Author: -
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Plutarch's lives, translated from the original Greek; with notes critical and historical, and a life of Plutarch. By John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne, A.M. In eight volumes. Vol. I[-VIII].
Date: Monday, January 01, 1816 Genre: Biographies Author: