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Addison, Joseph. 1726. Remarks on several parts of Italy, & c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. London: J. Tonson.
[Dedication signed: J. Addison. Initials, illustrations, historiated head and tailpieces throughout.]
DG424.A22 1726

_____. 1753. Remarks on several parts of Italy, & c.: in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. London: J. and R. Tonson.
[Initials, head and tailpieces throughout. Illustrations. Bears Elton bookplate.]
DG424.A22 1753

Alberti, Leandro. 1581. Descrittione di tvtta l"Italia & isole pertinenti ad essa. Venetia: Appresso G. B. Porta.
[Title vignette; initials. Head and tail pieces throughout. On title page: "Nella quale si contiene il sito di essa, l'origine, & le signorie delle città, & de' castelli; co i nomi antichi & moderni; i costumi de popoli, & le conditioni de paesi...Et di piu ripurgata da infiniti errori, & accresciuta d'altre additioni in margine, da M. Borgaruccio Borgarucci.. " Added title page: Isole appartenenti alla Italia. Includes index.]
DG423.A3 1581

Albrizzi, Giovanni Battista. 1771. L'etranger plainement instruit des choses les plus rares et curieuses, anciennes et modernes de la ville de Venise...Venice.
[Illustrations throughout]
DG673.A34 1771

Audigier, Louis Bailey. 1925. New views of old Rome. Milano, Roma: Bestetti & Tumminelli.
[41 plates.]
DG806.A8

Barbaro, Giosofat. 1873. Travels to Tana and Persia. Translated from the Italian by William Thomas, clerk of the Council to Edward VI, and by S.A. Roy, esq. And edited with an introduction, by Lord Stanley of Alderley. London: Printed for the Hakluyt society.
[Includes: Venice – Foreign Relations – Iran.]
G161.H2 series 1 v. 49

Baring, Thomas. 1817. A tour through Italy, Sicily, Istria, Carniola, the Tyrol, and Austria. London: Printed for Gale and Fenner.
[Color illustration.]
DG426.B3 1817

Barthélemy, Jean-Jacques. 1801. Voyage en Italie...imprimé sur ses lettres originales écrites au comte de Caylus. Paris: Chez F. Buisson.
[avec un appendice, où se trouvent des morceaux inédits de Winckelmann, du P. Jacquier, de l'abbé Zarillo, publié par A[ntonio] Sérieys. Imprint date on title page appears as: AN X (1801).]
DG425.B3 1801

Beckford, William. 1834. Italy: with sketches of Spain and Portugal. London: R. Bentley.
[2 volumes]
D974.B39 1834

Berrian, William. 1821. Travels in France and Italy, in 1817 and 1818. New York: Printed by T. and J. Swords.
DG426.B53

Boswell, James. 1928-34. Private papers of James Boswell from Maahide Castle; in the collection of Lt. Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham; prepared for the press by Geoffrey Scott and now first printed. Mount Vernon, NY: W.E. Rudge, private printing.
[18 volumes. Volume 5: Porzia Sansedoni: Love letters of James Boswell written in Italy, 1765, with other records of his Italian tour. Half title. Each volume has special title page. Issued in slipcases with slipcase spine title: Boswell papers.]
PR3325.A16

Bromley, William. 1702. Several years travels through Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark and the United Provinces. Performed by a gentleman. London: Printed for A Roper, etc.
[Bound in marble leather with covers stamped in gold with motto: "forward gang." Bears book-plate of William Stirling.]
D915.B86

Brydone, Patrick. 1773. A tour through Sicily and Malta. In a series of letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk; from P. Brydone, F.R..S. London: Printed for W. Strahan.
DG831.B7

_____. 1806. A tour through Sicily and Malta. In a series of letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk; from P. Brydone, F.R..S. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies.
[Fold-out maps, illustrations, facsimiles.]
DG831.B934 1806

Burnet, Gilbert. 1724. Some letters, containing an account of what seem'd most remarkable in travelling thro' Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, & c. in the years 1685 and 1686. London: Printed for J. Lacy.
[Head and tailpieces, historiated initials.]
D915.B96

Cadell, William Archibald. 1820. A journey in Carniola, Italy, and France, in the years 1817, 1818: containing remarks relating to language, geography, history, antiquities, natural history, science, painting, sculpture, architecture, agriculture, the mechanical arts and manufacturers. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. [by George Ramsey and Company] and Hurst, Robinson and Co.
[2 volumes. Title page with engravings. Dedication: "To the Right Honorable Sir Joseph Banks..."Table of contents in v. 2 p. 281. Last page of v. 1: "printed by George Ramsey and Company Edinburgh, 1819."; Last page of v. 2: "printed by George Ramsey and Company Edinburgh, 1820." Maps on folded leaves.]
DG426.C12

Callcott, Maria Lady. 1820. Three months passed in the mountains east of Rome, during the year 1819. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; etc.
[Illustrations and plates throughout.]
DG793.C15

Cambiagi, Gaetano. 1790. Guida al forestiero per osservare con metodo le rarità e belleze della città di Firenze. Firenze: Per Gaetano Cambiagi stamp. Granducale.
[Title vignette; initials. Head and tailpieces throughout.]
DG732.C3 1790

Carducci, Giosuè. 1916. Italy, from the poems of Joshua Carducci, translated by E.A.. Tribe. Florence: G. Giannini
[Illustrated.]
PQ4685.A2 1916

Cassa di risparmio di Roma. 1961. Via del Corso. Roma: [s.n.]
[Illustrated end papers. English, French and German "translation of text accompanying figures." 18 leaves of plates, 360 illustrations (some color).]
DG815.9.V5C3

Chateaubriand, Vicomte de. 1828. Travels in America and Italy. London: H. Colburn.
[2 volumes. Translated from the French.]
E164.C50

Cramer, John Anthony. 1826. A geographical and historical description of ancient Italy; with a map and plan of Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
[2 volumes. Map of Italy, in two parts (in pocket).]
DG30.C8

Dana, William Coombs. 1845. A transatlantic tour: comprising travels in Great Britian, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy...Philadelphia: Perkins & Purves, Chestnut Street. Charleston, S.C., M'Carther & Allen.
[Published anonymously.]
D919.D17

Douglas, Norman. 1930. Capri: materials for a description of the island. Florence: G. Orioli.
[525 copies of this edition have been printed. This is copy number 247, signed by the author. Title vignette; illustrations throughout. Includes bibliographies.]
DG975.C2D25

Duppa, Richard. 1825. Miscellaneous observations and opinions on the continent, by the author of "The life of Michel'Angelo," and "The subversion of the papal government"...London: Printed by J. M'Creery, and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green.
[Illustrations throughout.]
D919.D8

Eaton, Charlotte Anne. 1852. Rome, in the nineteenth century; containing a complete account of the ruins of the ancient city, the remains of the middle ages, and the monuments of modern times. London: H.G. Bohn.
[2 volumes. Plates and plans throughout.]
DG806.E3 1852

Eustace, John Chetwode. 1815. A classical tour through Italy. London: J. Mawman.
[4 volumes. 3rd. edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated with a map of Italy, plans of churches, and index, etc.]
DG425.E9 1815

_____. 1821. A classical tour through Italy. London: J. Mawman.
[4 volumes. 6th edition with an additional preface, and translations of the various quotations from ancient and modern authors. Illustrated with a map of Italy, plans of churches, an index, etc.]
DG425.E91

Fisk, Wilbur. 1838. Travels in Europe, viz., in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. New York: Harper and Brothers.
[Special Collections owns 2 copies of this book.]
D919.F54 1838

_____. 1839. Travels in Europe, viz, in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. New York: Harper and Brothers.
D919.F54 1839

Gilly, William Stephen. 1827. Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piedmont, in the year MDCCCXXIII; and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses. London: C. and J. Rivington.
[Illustrations, fold-out maps, and letters throughout.]
DG613.G48 1927

Greeley, Horace. 1851. Glances at Europe: in a series of letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, & c. during the summer of 1851. Including notices of the Great Exhibition, or World’s Fair. New York: Dewitt & Davenport.
[Written originally for the New York Tribune.]
D919.G79

Grosley, Pierre Jean. 1769. New observations on Italy and its inhabitants. London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers.
[2 volumes. Written in French by two Swedish Gentlemen; translated into English by Thomas Nugent. Translation of the author's Nouveaux memoires, ou Observatuins sur l"Italie et sur les Italiens. Comparative history of Italian and French music: v. 2, p. (364)- includes index.]
DG424.G85 1769

Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert. 1875. Days near Rome. Philadelphia: Porter.
[2 volumes. Title in red and black. Printer's mark. Illustrations]
DG806.H27 1875

Harff, Arnold Ritter von. 1946. The pilgrimage of Arnold von Harff, knight, from Cologne through Italy, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia, Nubia, Paletine, Turkey, France, and Spain, which he accomplished in the years 1496 to 1499. Translated from the German and ed. with notes and introduction by Malcolm Letts. London.
[Translated from Groote’s edition of 1860. Bibliography: 309-316.]
G161.H2 series 2, vol. 94

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. 1872. Passages from the French and Italian note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: James R. Osgood, late Ticknor and Fields: and Fields, Osgood.
[2 volumes. First American edition.]
PS1867.A1 1872

Hoare, Richard Colt, Sir. 1819. A classical tour through Italy and Sicily; tending to illustrate seom districts, which have not been described by Mr. Eustace, in his classical tour. London: J. Mawman.
[2 volumes. map]
DG426.H67 1819

Howells, William Dean. 1867. Italian journeys. New York: Hurd and Houghton.
[Printer's mark.]
DG427.H85

_____. 1908. Roman holidays and others. New York, London: Harper & Brothers.
[Illustrations throughout.]
DG428.H8

_____. 1886. Tuscan cities. Boston: Ticknor.
[With illustrations from drawings and etchings by Joseph Pennell and others. Printer's mark. Head and tailpieces]
DG734.H85

Hughes, Thomas Smart. 1820. Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania. London: J. Mawman.
[2 volumes. Illustrated with engravings of maps, scenery, plans & c.]
DF723.H89

James, Henry. 1909. Italian Hours. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin company.
[First edition. Initials. With color illustrations by Joseph Pennell. "The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few exceptions already been collected."--Pref.]
DG428.J3

_____. 1909. Italian Hours. London: William Heinemann.
[Initials. With color illustrations by Joseph Pennell. "The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few exceptions already been collected."--Pref.]
DG428.J35

_____. 1875. Transatlantic Sketches. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.
[First edition. Subjects include: A Roman holiday, Roman rides, Roman neighborhoods, the after season in Rome, The autumn in Florence, Ravenna...]
D919.J28

Jameson, Mrs. Anna. 1860. The diary of an ennuyée; from the last London ed. Boston: Ticknor.
DG426.J31

Kemble, Fanny. 1847. A year of consolation. By Mrs. Butler, late Fanny Kemble. New York: Wiley & Putnam.
[2 volumes. Publisher's advertisements: 8 pages (at end)]
DG426.K4 1847

Lassels, Richard. 1698. Italian voyage, or A compleat journey through Italy. In two parts. With the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towns, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries, pallaces, villa's gardens, pictures, statues and antiquities. As also, of the internal government, riches, force, & c., of all the princes. With instruction concerning travel. London: Printed for R. Wellington, and are to be sold by P. Gilbourne.
[Illustrations, fold-out map. Part two has special title page and separate paging. First published 1670 under the title: The voyage of Italy, or A compleat journey through Italy.]
DG424.L35

Lemaistre, John Gustavus. 1806. Travels after the peace of Ameins, through parts of France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. London: Printed for J. Johnson.
[3 volumes.]
D919.L54

Letts, Malcolm Henry Ikin. 1957. The travels of Leo of Rozmital through Germany, Flanders, England, France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. 1465-1467. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press.
[Contains folded maps, coat of arms, and facsimilies. Translation of Tetzel’s German record of the travels, supplemented by passages translated from the Latin edition of Schaseck’s account, originally written in Czech. The German and Latin texts were published together in 1843. Includes bibliography.]
G161.H2 series 2, v. 108

Lowell, James Russell. 1864. Fireside travels. Boston: Ticknor and Fields.
[Includes: Italy, description and travel.]
PS2318.A1 1864

Lucas, Edward Verrall. 1913. A wanderer in Florence. London: Methuen & Co.
[Embossed leather binding with leather clasps. With sixteen color illustrations by Harry Morley and thirty-eight photographs from painting and sculpture.]
DG734.L8 1913

Magness, Edgar. 1895. Tramp tales of Europe, through the Tyrolean and Swiss Alps andthe Italian Lake region. Buffalo: C.W. Moulton.
[Printer's mark; illustration.]
D919.M21

Mills, Charles. 1822. The travels of Theodore Ducas in various countries in Europe at the revival of letters and art. Part the first. Italy. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
[2 volumes. An imaginary voyage written in imitation of the "Travels of Anacharais" Only the first part, comprising Italy, was published. cf. Dict. Nat. Biog.]
DG426.M65

Misson, Maximillien. 1691. Nouveau voyage d'Italie, fait en l'année 1688. Avec un memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. La Haye: Henri van Bulderen
[2 volumes in 1. Illustrations, plates, folded plates.]
DG424.M48 1691

_____. 1717. Nouveau voyage d'Italie, avec un memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. La Haye: Henri van Bulderen.
[3 volumes. Title in red and black; title vignette. Initials, head and tail pieces. Illustrations throughout.]
DG424.M5

Morgan, Lady Sydney. 1821. Italy. London: Henry Colburn & Co.
[2 volumes in 1. "The notes on law, statistics, and on literary disputes, together with appendix on the state of medicine, have...been contributed by Morgan" --Advertisement. Other authors: Sir Thomas Charles Morgan.]
DG426.M84 1821

Mortoft, Francis. 1925. Francis Mortoft: his book, being his travels through France and Italy, 1658-1659. Edited by Malcolm Letts. London: Printed for the Hayluyt Society.
[Includes plates and maps. Bibliography: p. 109-195.]
G161.H2 series 2, vol. 57

Peale, Rembrandt. 1831. Notes on Italy. Written during a tour in the years 1829 and 1830. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea.
[First edition. Paper label on spine.]
DG426.P35

Pilati, Carlo Antonio. 1777. Voyages en differens pays de l'Europe en 1774, 1775, & 1776; ou lettres escrites de l'Allemagne, de la Suisse, de l'Italie, de Sicile, et de Paris. La Haye: C. Plaat.
[2 volumes. Title vignette; head and tailpieces throughout.]
D917.V69

Piozzi, Hester Lynch. [1967]. Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany, by Hester Lynch Piozzi. Edited by Herbert Barrows. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
[2 volumes.]
D917.P5 1967

ca. 1880. Pompei; a photographic album.
[23 photographs. Library copy imperfect. Eleven plates and title page wanting.]
DG70.P7P6

1838. Records of Travel. Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Company.
[Errata (2 lines) on p. 8. Subject matter: Mediterranean Sea and Italy.]
DG426.R4

Repetti, Emanuele. 1841. Notizie e guida di Firenze e de' suoi contorni. Firenze: G. Piatti.
[Printer's mark. Tables and map.]
DG732.T5 1841

Reynolds, James. [1954]. Pageant of Italy. New York: Putnam.
[Illustrations throughout.]
DG429.R42

Riedesel, Johann Hermann von. 1773. Travels through Sicily and that part of Italy formerly called Magna Græcia. And a tour through Egypt, with an accurate description of its cities, and the modern state of the country. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly.
[First part is a translation of Riedesel's Reise durch Sicilien und Grossgreichenland.]
DG863.R5 1773

Roberts, Hubert. 1930. La Rome d’Hvbert Robert; quatre-vingt-dix sanquines choisies et commentées par G. K. Loukomski, avec une étude de Pierre de Nolhac. Paris: Vincent, Freal & c.
[Issued in portfolio. 90 mounted plates. Bibliography.]
xNC248.R5L6

Roscoe, Thomas. 1832. The tourist in Italy...Illustrated from drawings by J.D. Harding. London: Jennings and Chaplin.
[Added title page, engraved: The landscape annual for 1832. Roscoe's work began in the Annual for 1831 and was concluded in the Annual for 1833. Bound in green leather; stamped in gold and blind, all edges gilt, coated endpapers. Fore-edge painting.]
DG30.R65 1832

Rose, William Stewart. 1819. Letters from the north of Italy. Addressed to Henry Hallam, esq. London: J. Murray.
[2 volumes. Published anonymously.]
DG601.R79

Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th earl of. 1799. A voyage performed by the late Earl of Sandwich round the Mediterranean in the years 1738 and 1739. Written by himself...which are prefixed, memoirs of the noble author's life. London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies.
[Other authors: John Cooke. Portraits, 1 fold-out map.]
D973.S22

Sandys, George. 1615. A relation of a journey begun An: Dom: 1610. Fovre bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adioyning. London: Printed for W. Barrett.
[Plates, illustrations, folded maps and plans. Dedication signed: George Sandys. Illustrated title page, engraved, illustrations engraved, head and tailpieces, initials.]
DS47.S2 1615

Sansom, Joseph. 1805. Letters from Europe, during a tour through Switzerland and Italy, in the years 1801 and 1802. Written by a native of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Printed for the author by A. Bartram and sold by T. Dobson.
[2 volumes]
D919.S22

Semple, Robert. 1808. Observations on a journey through Spain and Italy to Naples; and thence to Smyrna and Constantinople: comprising a description of the principal places in that route, and remarks on the present natural and political state of those countries. London: C. and R. Baldwin.
[2 volumes. 1 fold-out map.]
D950.S47 1808

Smollett, Tobias George. 1772. Travels through France and Italy: containing observations on character, customs, religion...with a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice...Dublin: Printed for J. Exshaw, etc.
[2 volumes. Second edition. Head and tailpieces.]
D917.S66 1772

Summers, Thomas, Osmond, ed. 1855. Venice past and present. Nashville, TN: E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
DG677.V46 1855

Swinburne, Henry. 1783-85. Travels in the two Sicilies...in the years 1778, 1779, and 1780...London: P. Elmsly.
[2 volumes. Plates, foldout maps, genealogical tables included. With this is bound the author’s Supplement to Mr. Swinburne's Travel through Spain. Being a journey from Bayonne to Marseilles. London, 1787.]
DG821.S938

Symond, John Addington. 1883.Italian byways. London: Smith, Elder, & Co.
[Some subjects include: autumn wanderings, Montepulciano, May in Umbria, The Gondolier's wedding, etc.]
DG427.S96

Thompson, Charles. 1744. The travels of the late Charles Thompson, esq: containing his observations on France, Italy, Turkey and Europe, The holy land, Arabia, Egypt, and many other parts of the world. Reading England: Printed by J. Newbery and C Micklewright.
[3 volumes with illustrations and maps.]
DS47.T45 1744

Tuckerman, Henry Theodore. 1837. Italian sketch book. Boston: Light and Stearns.
[Illustration.]
DG426.T885 1837

_____. 1839. Isabel; or Sicily. A pilgrimage...Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard.
DG863.T87

n.d. Verona. Verona: O. Onestinghel.
[Portfolio of postcard sized folded plates depicting Verona's historic sites, architecture, and art. Library copy donated in 1932 from the Eleanor Deane Swan Audigier Memorial Foundation.]
DG975.V49V4

Warner, Charles Dudley. 1904. The complete writings of Charles Dudley Warner. Hartford, Conn.: American publishing group.
[15 volumes. Each volume has an engraved title page. A manuscript page in Dudleys hand precedes front of volume 1. Plates, portraits and facsimilies. Volume 10: Our Italy.]
PS3150.A2 1904a

_____. 1883. A roundabout journey. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin.
[Deals chiefly with France, Italy, and Spain.]
D974.W25

Wharton, Edith. 1904. Italian villas and their gardens. New York: The Century Co.
[Illustrated with pictures by Maxfield Parrish. Plates and illustrations throughout]
DG420.W55

Willis, Nathaniel Parker. 1844. Pencilling by the way: written during some years in residence and travel in France, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Turkey, and England. New York: Morris & Willis.
[1st completed edition.]
PS3324.P4 1844

_____. c1853. Summer cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate. New York: C. Scribner.
[Subject areas include: Naples, Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius, Sicily etc.]
D972.W73

Wordsworth, Chr[istopher] Bp. of Lincoln. 1863. Journal of a tour in Italy, with reflections on the present condition and prospects of religion in that country. London: Rivingtons.
[2 volumes.]
DG427.W92


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