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Reports of a Series of Inoculations for the Variolae Vaccinae or Cowpox
The physician and botanist William Woodville (1752–1805), a proponent of inoculation against smallpox, was in 1791 appointed physician to the London Smallpox and Inoculation …
A Code of Gentoo Laws; or, Ordinations of the Pundits
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the English philologist Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751–1830) was employed in India by the East India Company. There he was asked to …
Personal Narrative of the Origin and Progress of the Caoutchouc Or India-Rubber Manufacture in England
Over the course of three decades, the English businessman and inventor Thomas Hancock (1786–1865) took out sixteen patents relating to the potential applications of natural rubber. …
Munimenta academica, or, Documents Illustrative of Academical Life and Studies at Oxford
Henry Anstey (c.1828–c.1914) served as a teacher, curate and chaplain, before becoming a tutor and then vice-principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford. On behalf of the Rolls Series, he …
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean
Captain James Burney (1750–1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for this …
Campaigning in Kaffirland, or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851–2
First published in 1853, this book chronicles the personal experience of the 'Kaffir' war of 1851–2 (now known as the eighth Xhosa or frontier war), between the European settlers …
Robert Chester's ‘Love's Martyr; Or, Rosalins Complaint'
The literary scholar Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827–99) reprinted this allegorical poem by Robert Chester (fl.c.1586–1604) with an introduction and notes in 1878. Grosart …
The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands
After the French and Indian War, in which France and England had fought over the control of North America, the French government decided to send an expedition to the Falkland …
Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers
Double Falshood was staged at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane at the end of 1727, and the following year Lewis Theobald (1688–1744) published the text, which was reprinted several …
Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme, or Catilla del Oro
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to …
The King Country, Or, Explorations in New Zealand
Originally published in 1884, this work by the relatively unknown 'gentleman explorer' James Henry Kerry-Nicholls (d. 1888) focuses on nineteenth-century New Zealand. It recounts …
Hudson's Bay, or, Every-day Life in the Wilds of North America
In 1841, aged just sixteen, the intrepid young Scotsman Robert M. Ballantyne (1825–94) joined the Hudson's Bay Company. Posted immediately to North-Eastern Canada, he spent five …