MRP: Travel diaries
C17th Travel bibliography
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Printed texts
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 (London, XXXX-1889; reissued BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009)
- Hedges, William, The diary of William Hedges, esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges) during his agency in Bengal as well as his voyage out and return overland (1681-1687), vol. 3 (London, 1889)
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 (London, 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)
Verney, Francis P., Memoirs of the Verney family during the Civil War, vol 1 (London, 1892)
Verney, Francis P., Memoirs of the Verney family during the Civil War, vol. 2 (London, 1892)
Verney, Margaret M., Memoirs of the Verney family during the Commonwealth, 1650-1660, vol. 3 (London, 1894)
Verney, Margaret M., Memoirs of the Verney family from the Restoration to the Revolution, 1660 to 1696, vol. 4 (London, 1899)
Tuke, Samuel, Memoirs of George Whitehead, vol. 1 (Philadelphia, 1830)
Tuke, Samuel, Memoirs of George Whitehead, vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1830)
Penn, Granville, Memorials of the professional life and times of Sir William Penn, 1644-1670, vol. 1 (London, 1833)
Penn, Granville, Memorials of the professional life and times of Sir William Penn, 1644-1670, vol. 2 (London, 1833)
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)
Norden, John, An intended guyde for English travailers (XXXX, 1626)
Saint-Constant, Jean-L. Ferri de, Londres et les anglais (?Paris, 1804)
Smith, William, Particular description of England (XXXX, 1588, pub. 1879)
Samuel Sorbière, A voyage to England: containing many things relating to the state of learning, religion, and other curiosities of that kingdom (London, 1709)
- Originally published in 1663
- Contains good quotations on Kent and Canterbuy, together with observations on travel times by horse and wagon
Box, E.G., 'Kent in early road books', Archaelogia Cantiania, xliv (XXXX, 1932)
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)
Manuscript sources
Sir Thomas Browne & family
BL, Sloane. 1745, Account of Thomas Browne's journey from Bourdeaux to Paris, 1662. ff. 22-29
- Thomas Browne Jnr is son of Dr Browne who corresponded with Dr Escaliot
BL, Sloane. 1745, Journal of Thomas Browne on board the Mary Rose from the Thames to Falmouth, leaving 29 Nov. ff. 31-37
- Thomas Browne Jnr is son of Dr Browne who corresponded with Dr Escaliot)
BL, Sloane. 1906, Journal kept by him [Dr. Edward Browne], from 18 December 1663, to Friday the 15th August following. He was at Norwich until the end of March, when he quitted England for Paris. The journal contains many medical receipts and anatomical observations. ff. 1-159
BL, Sloane. 1886, Note-book and Journal kept by Dr. Edward Browne, in his travels in France and Italy, in the years 1664, 1665 — containing among other miscellaneous matter, descriptions of paintings, medical receipts and memoranda, and exercises in the French and Italian languages. ff. 1-88
BL, Sloane. 1908, Journals of his travels in Germany between the 8th of August 1668 and the 20th of July 1667. ff. 4-86. Introduced into the Account of several Travels through a great part of Germany; by Edwd. Browne, M. D. London, 1677.'
BL, Sloane. 1855, Observations made by Dr. Edward Browne in his Travels, from Vienna, through Austria, Bohemia, etc., 1669, copied in the handwriting of his father Sir Thomas Browne. ff. 2-54.
BL, Sloane. 1899, Account of Dr. Thomas Browne's journey into Kent with Dr. Plott, August 1693. ff. 3-22, 32-23
- Printed in Wilkin's edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Works, vol. IV. p. 457.
