Research Guides: HUM 399: Digital Humanities Workshop: Voyages of Discovery in the Vault: Travel & Voyage Books in the Vault

Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz (1758 & 1763)

Histoire de la Louisiane : contenant la découverte de ce vaste pays, sa description géographique, un voyage dans les terres, l'histoire naturelle, les mœurs, coûtumes & religion des naturels, avec leurs origines : deux voyages dans le nord du nouveau M
Call Number: MOH Vault F372 .L54
Publication Date: 1758

The history of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina: containing a description of the countries that lye on both sides of the River Missisipi: with an account of the settlements, inhabitants, soil, climate, and products.
Call Number: MOH Vault F372 .L5413
Publication Date: 1763

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1772)

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Reise um die Welt : welche mit der Fregatte la Boudeuse in den Jahren 1766, 1767, 1768 und 1769 gemacht worden
Call Number: MOH Vault G420 .B85
Publication Date: 1772

Gerard Fridrikh Miller (1761)

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Voyages from Asia to America : for completing the discoveries of the north west coast of America. To which is prefixed, a summary of the voyages made by the Russians on the Frozen Sea, in search of a north east passage. Serving as an explanation of a map
Call Number: MOH Vault G680 .M9
Publication Date: 1761

Robert Rogers (1765)

A concise account of North America: containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c.
Call Number: MOH Vault E162 .R69
Publication Date: 1765

Journals of Major Robert Rogers : containing an account of the several excursions he made under the generals who commanded upon the continent of North America, during the late war ; from which may by [sic] collected the most material circumstances of ever
Call Number: MOH Vault E199 .R72
Publication Date: 1765

Jonathan Carver (1779)

Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1798. by Jonathan Carver
Call Number: MOH Vault F597 .C33 1779
Publication Date: 1779
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Samuel Hearne (1795)

A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the discovery of copper mines, a northwest passage, &c., in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772
Call Number: MOH Vault F1060.7 .H41
Publication Date: 1795

Daines Barrington (1781)

Includes: "Journal of a Voyage in 1775 to explore the coast of America, Northward of California, By the second Pilot of the Fleet, Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle, in the King's Schooner, called the Sonora, and commanded by Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega.

Miscellanies, by the Honourable Daines Barrington
Call Number: MOH Vault AC7 .B3
Publication Date: 1781

Bruno de Hezeta (1775)

Diario de navegación de la fragata ''Santiago'' 1775

For Honor and Country: The Diary of Bruno de Hezeta
ISBN: 0875951201
Publication Date: 2000

Captain Cook's Voyages (1784)

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ; its distance from Asia ; and the practicability of a no by James Cook,
Call Number: MOH Vault G420 .C69 1784
Publication Date: 1784
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John Rickman (William Ellis) (1783)

An authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke : in his Majesty's ships Resolution and Discovery during the years 1776, l777, l778, l779, and l780 in search of a north-west passage between the continents of Asia and Americ
Call Number: MOH Vault G420.C69 R5 1783b
Publication Date: 1783

Nathaniel Portlock (1789)

A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, captains Portlock and Dixon. : Embellished with twenty copper-plates. Dedicated, by permis
Call Number: MOH Vault G420 .P85
Publication Date: 1789

An abridgement of Portlock and Dixon's voyage round the world, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788.
Call Number: MOH Vault G420 .P85 1789
Publication Date: 1789

William Beresford (1789)

A voyage round the world : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America : performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon
Call Number: MOH Vault G420.P9 B5 1789
Publication Date: 1789

John Meares (1791)

Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the N.W. coast of America: with an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka. To which are annexed, observations on the probable existence of a North West P
Call Number: MOH Vault F851.5 .M47
Publication Date: 1791

James Colnett (1798)

A voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean : for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries and other objects of commerce, by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours, and anchoring births [sic] in certain islands
Call Number: MOH Vault F2213 .C71
Publication Date: 1798

Johann Reinhold Forster (1786)

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History of the voyages and discoveries made in the North
Call Number: MOH Vault G620 .F7513
Publication Date: 1786

Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse (1799)

A voyage round the world : in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788
Call Number: MOH Vault G420 .L22 1799
Publication Date: 1798

George Vancouver (1801)

A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed : undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence
Call Number: MOH Vault G420 .V23
Publication Date: 1801

William Robert Broughton (1804)

A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean; in which the coast of Asia, from the lat. of 35° north to the lat. of 52° north, the island of Insu (commonly known under the name of the land of Jesso,) the north, south, and east coasts of Japan, the Lie
Call Number: MOH Vault DS506 .B87
Publication Date: 1804

Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern (1813)

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Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern
Call Number: MOH Vault G420 .K9213
Publication Date: 1813

Georg Heinrich Langsdorff (1814)

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Dance of the Indians of the Mission of St. Joseph in New California (Library of Congress)

Metadata for this image from Leibsohn, Dana, and Barbara E. Mundy, Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820.http://www.fordham.edu/vistas, 2015.