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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: January 1, 1814
Genre: Travel literature
Author: Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848.
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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: January 1, 1813
Genre: Travel literature
Author: Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848.
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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: January 1, 1816
Genre: Autobiographies
Author: Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
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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: January 1, 1808
Genre: Gazetteers
Author: Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.
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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: January 1, 1811
Genre: Biographies
Author: Plutarch.
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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: January 1, 1819
Genre: Maps
Author: Dearborn, H. A. S. (Henry Alexander Scammell), 1783-1851.
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The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians. By Charles Rollin, late principal of the University of Paris, &c. In four volumes. Illustrated with plates. Vol. I[-IV].
Date: January 1, 1815
Genre: Maps
Author: Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741.
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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: January 1, 1807
Genre: Maps
Author: Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741.
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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: January 1, 1812
Genre: Gazetteers
Author: Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.
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The history of ancient Greece, its colonies and conquests; from the earliest accounts till the division of the Macedonian Empire in the east. Including the history of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts. By John Gillies, LL.D. F.R.S. and A.S. London, F.R.S. Edinburgh, and historiographer to His Majesty for Scotland. [Four lines in Greek from Polybius] In four volumes. Vol. I[-IV].
Date: January 1, 1814
Genre: Maps
Author: Gillies, John, 1747-1836.
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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: January 1, 1816
Genre: Biographies
Author: Plutarch.
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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: January 1, 1814
Genre: Travel literature
Author: Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.
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Elements of geography, ancient and modern. With an atlas. By J.E. Worcester.
Date: January 1, 1819
Genre: Maps
Author: Worcester, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865.
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The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians. By Charles Rollin, late principal of the University of Paris, &c. In ten volumes. Vol. I[-X].
Date: January 1, 1815
Genre: Maps
Author: Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741.
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A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar; and present state of the several kingdoms of the world. Containing, [32 lines of text in double columns] To which are added, A geographical index, with the names of places alphabetically arranged. 2. A table of the coins of all nations. 3. A chronological table of remarkable events, from the Creation to the present time. By William Guthrie, Esq. The astronomical part by James Ferguson, F.R.S. To which have been added the late discoveries of Dr. Herschel, and other eminent astronomers. Illustrated with twenty-five correct maps. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Date: January 1, 1809
Genre: Maps
Author: Guthrie, William, 1708-1770.

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