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C17th Travel Diary bibliography

True travel diaries in C17th

Brennan, Michael G., The travel diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant (1647-1656) (London, 1999)
Coryat, Thomas, Coryats crudities hastily gobled vp in five moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia co[m]monly called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome., [London : Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], anno Domini 1611], STC (2nd ed.) / 5808
Hedges, William, The diary of William Hedges, esq., vols. 1-3 (XXXX, XXXX-1889; reissued BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009)

Late C16th & C17th general diaries with travel information

Bray W. (ed.), Diary of John Evelyn, vol. 2 (London, 1850)
Matthews, William, British diaries: an annotated bibliography of British diaries written between 1442 and 1942 (London, 1950)
Nichols, J.G. (ed.), The diary of Henry Machyn, 1550-1565 (XXXX, 1848)

Memoirs with travel information

Orme, W., Remarkable passages in the life of William Kiffin (XXXX, 1823)
Papillon, A.F.W. (ed.), Memoirs of Thomas Papillon (Reading, 1887). Includes Appendix with ‘Selection from Letters of Jane Papillon, 1667-8’
Temple, Richard Carnac, Lavinia Mary Anstey (ed.), The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667 (London, 1936)
W, XX (ed.), Memoirs of Thomas Papillon (XXXX, 1897)
Verney, M.M., Memoirs of the Verney family during the Commonwealth, 1650-1660 (XXXX, 189X)
Verney, F.P.., Memoirs of the Verney family during the Civil War, 16XX-XX, vol. II (XXXX, 1892)

XXXX, Memoirs of George Whitehead (Philadelphia, XXXX)
XXXX, Memorials of the professional life and times of Sir William Penn, 1644-1670, vol. 1 (XXXX, XXXX)

Printed correspondence with travel information

Singer S.W. (ed.), The correspondence of Edward Hyde the Earl of Clarendon, 1687-1690, vol. 2 (London, 1828)

Travel guides

England

Blome, Richard , Britannia: or a Geographical description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the Isles and Territories thereto belonging (XXXX, 1687)
Brady, J.H., The Dover road sketch book or travellers pocket guide between London and Dover (XXXX, 1837)
Camden, William, Britannia (XXXX, 1594)
Smith, William, Particular description of England (XXXX, 1588, pub. 1879)

Continental Europe

Brererton, Sir William, ed. Edward Hawkins, Travels in Holland, The United Provinces, England, Scotland, and Ireland (XXXX, 1844)
Dallington, Robert, Method for travel (XXXX, 1606)
Sincerus, Jodocus, Itinerarium Galliae, Ita Accomodatum, Ut Ejus Ducti Medio Cri Tempore Tota Gallia Obiri, Anglia & Belgium (Amsterdam, 1655)

• The book is a travel guide intended for noble students. The author describes his journeys through France, part of England, Belgium and Holland before he took his degree in Basel, Switzerland.

Outside Europe

Linschoten, J.H.van, His Discours of Voyages into the East and West Indies. Translated out of the Dutch by William Philip (London, 1598)
Ovington, J, Rawlinson, HG (ed.), A voyage to Surat in the year 1689 (London, 1929)
Russell, Alexander, The natural history of Aleppo: containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood. Together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, vol. 1 (2nd edn., London, 1794)
Rycaut, Paul, The history of the Turkish Empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677
containing the reigns of the three last emperors, viz, Sultan Morat, or Amurat IV, Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV, his son, the thirteenth emperor, now reigning (London, 1687)