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56 Titles tagged with "Discovery and exploration"
  1. Annual report of Captain A.A. Humphreys, topographical engineers, in charge of Office of Explorations and Surveys, War Department, December, 1858.
    Publication Info: Washington1859.
    Contributed By: Library of Congress (archive.org)
    Tags: Animals  Colorado Exploring Expedition. [from old catalog]  Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)  Discovery and exploration  Nebraska  Pecos River (N.M. and Tex.)  Plants  West (U.S.)  
  2. Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878.
    Publication Info: Washington,Govt. Print. Off.,1867-83.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Discovery and exploration  Geology  United States  West (U.S.)  
  3. Antarctic fishes of the Scottish National Antarctic expedition.
    Publication Info: Edinburg,Robert Grant & Son,1913.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Antarctica  Discovery and exploration  Fishes  Scientific expeditions  Scottish  
  4. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux : being the narrative of an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862 / by Charles Francis Hall ...
    Publication Info: New York :Harper & Brothers,1865.
    Contributed By: University of Pittsburgh Library System (archive.org)
    Tags: 1786-1847  Arctic regions  Discovery and exploration  dn  Eskimos  Franklin, John,  Sir,  United States  
  5. Catalogue and index of the publications of the Hayden, King, Powell, and Wheeler surveys: namely, Geological and geographical survey of the territories, Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel by L. F. Schmeckebier.
    Publication Info: Washington,Govt. print. off.,1904.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Bibliography  Discovery and exploration  Geology  Surveys  United States  
  6. Die Dekapoden der Deutschen südpolar-expedition 1901-1903. Brachyuren und Macruren mit ausschluss der Sergestiden von H. Lenz und K. Strunck.
    Publication Info: Berlin,G. Reimer,1914.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Antarctica  Decapoda (Crustacea)  Discovery and exploration  German  
  7. Die Echinodermenlarven der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901- 1903 / von Th. Mortensen.
    Publication Info: Berlin :G. Reimer,[1913?]
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Antarctica  Discovery and exploration  Echinodermata  Fishes  German  Larvae  
  8. Die zweite Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt in den Jahren 1869 und 1870, unter Führung des Kapitän Karl Koldewey / herausgegeben von dem Verein für die deutsche Nordpolfahrt in Bremen.
    Publication Info: Leipzig :F.A. Brockhaus,1873-1874.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Arctic regions  Deutsche Nordpolar-Expedition, 1869-1870  Discovery and exploration  Geophysics  German  Koldewey, Karl, 1837-1908  Natural history  
  9. Die zweite Deutsche Nordpolfahrt in den Jahren 1869 und 1870, unter Führung des Kapitän Karl Koldewey / herausgegeben von dem Verein für die deutsche Nordpolfahrt in Bremen.
    Publication Info: Leipzig :F.A. Brockhaus,1873-1874.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: Arctic regions  Deutsche Nordpolar-Expedition, 1869-1870  Discovery and exploration  Geophysics  German  Koldewey, Karl, 1837-1908  Natural history  
  10. Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. Also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islan
    Publication Info: London :T. and W. Boone,1846.
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: Australia  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Natural history  
  11. The discovery of Australia / by G. Arnold Wood ; with illustrations.
    Publication Info: London :Macmillan,1922.
    Contributed By: Robarts - University of Toronto (archive.org)
    Tags: Australia  Discovery and exploration  
  12. Discovery of the North Pole : Dr. Frederick A. Cook's own story of how he reached the North Pole April 21st, 1908, and the story of Commander Robert E. Peary's discovery April 6th, 1909 / special introd. by A.W. Greely ; edited by J. Martin Miller.
    Publication Info: Philadelphia, Pa. :G.A. Parker,c1909.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: (Robert Edwin),  1856-1920  1865-1940  Arctic regions  Cook, Frederick Albert,  Discovery and exploration  North Pole (Alaska)  Peary, Robert E  
  13. Early Norse visits to North America, with ten plates, by William H. Babcock ...
    Publication Info: Washington,Smithsonian Institution,1913.
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: America  Discovery and exploration  Norse  
  14. Estudios españoles. Los trabajos geográficos de la Casa de contratación por Manuel de la Puente y Olea.
    Publication Info: Sevilla :Escuela tipográfica y Librería Salesianas,1900.
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: America  Botany  Cartography  Casa de Contratación (Spain)  Discovery and exploration  History  Latin America  Spanish  Zoology  
  15. Fate of Sir John Franklin : the voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic seas in search of Franklin and his companions / by Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock.
    Publication Info: London :John Murray,1869.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: 1786-1847  1819-1907  Arctic regions  British  Discovery and exploration  Fox (Ship)  Franklin, John,  Geophysics  M'Clintock, Francis Leopold,  Sir,  
  16. Grønland-Expedition der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, 1891-1893 / unter Leitung von Erich von Drygalski.
    Publication Info: Berlin :W.H. Kühl,1897.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: Discovery and exploration  Geophysics  Greenland  Natural history  
  17. Histoire des découvertes et conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau monde ... par le r.p. Joseph François Lafitau ...
    Publication Info: Paris,Saugrain pere [etc.]1733.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: America  Colonies  Discovery and exploration  History  Period of discoveries, 1385-1580  Portugal  Portuguese  
  18. Historia general de las Indias /[...capitan Honçalo Hernandez de Ouiedo y Valdez ...].
    Publication Info: [Seville] :[La qual de acabo y imprimio enla muy leal cihdago de Sevilla, en la empré ta de Juam Cromberger ...,1535].
    Contributed By: Missouri Botanical Garden
    Tags: America  Central America  Discovery and exploration  Early accounts to 1600  Natural history  Pre-Linnean works  Spanish  West Indies  
  19. Historia general y natural de las Indias,
    Publication Info: Madrid,Impr. de la Real academia de la historia,1851-55.
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: America  Central America  Colonies  Discoveries in geography  Discovery and exploration  Early accounts to 1600  Indians  Natural history  Shipwrecks  Spain  West Indies  
  20. Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra-firme del mar oceano, por el capitan Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, primer cronista del Nueva mundo. Publícala la Real academia de la historia, cotejada con el códice original, enriquecida con las enmiendas y adi
    Publication Info: Madrid,Impr. de la Real academia de la historia,1851-55.
    Contributed By: New York Botanical Garden
    Tags: America  Central America  Colonies  Discoveries in geography  Discovery and exploration  Early accounts to 1600  Indians  Natural history  Shipwrecks  Spain  Spanish  West Indies  
  21. Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierrafirme del mar océano /por el capitan Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, primer cronista del Nueva mundo. Publícala la Real academia de la historia, cotejada con el códice original, enriquecida con las enmiendas y adiciones del autor, é ilustrada con la vida y el juicio de las obras del mismo por D. José Amador de los Rios ...
    Publication Info: Madrid :Impr. de la Real Academia de la Historia,1851-55.
    Contributed By: Missouri Botanical Garden
    Tags: America  Central America  Colonies  Discoveries in geography  Discovery and exploration  Early accounts to 1600  Indians  Natural history  Shipwrecks  Spain  West Indies  
  22. In northern mists; Arctic exploration in early times, by Fridtjof Nansen ... tr. by Arthur G. Chater ... with frontispieces in color, and over one hundred and fifty illustrations in black-and-white ....
    Publication Info: New York,Frederick A. Stokes co.,1911.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: America  Arctic regions  Discoveries in geography  Discovery and exploration  Norse  Scandinavian  
  23. Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, etc. / edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker.
    Publication Info: London :Macmillan,1896.
    Contributed By: Robarts - University of Toronto (archive.org)
    Tags: 1743-1820  Banks, Joseph,  Discovery and exploration  Endeavour (Ship)  Natural history  Oceania  Sir,  Voyages around the world  
  24. The melancholy fate of Sir John Franklin and his party, as disclosed in Dr. Rae"s report; together with the despatches and letters of Captain M'Clure, and other officers employed in the Arctic expeditions.
    Publication Info: London :John Betts,1854.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: 1786-1847  Arctic regions  Discovery and exploration  Franklin, John,  Sir,  
  25. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819-20-21-22 /by John Franklin.
    Publication Info: London :J. Murray,1824.
    Contributed By: Missouri Botanical Garden
    Tags: Arctic regions  British  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Natural history  Northwest, Canadian  Scientific expeditions  
  26. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 /by John Franklin ... ; with an appendix on various subjects relating to science and natural history ; illustrated by numerous plates and maps.
    Publication Info: London :John Murray,1823.
    Contributed By: Missouri Botanical Garden
    Tags: Arctic regions  British  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Natural history  Northwest, Canadian  Scientific expeditions  
  27. Narrative of discovery and adventure in Africa, from the earliest ages to the present time: with illustrations of the geology, mineralogy, and zoology. By Professor Jameson, James Wilson, and Hugh Murray.
    Publication Info: New York :Harper & Brothers,1840.
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: Africa  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Natural history  
  28. Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's river, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c., performed in the year 1823, ... under the command of Stephen H. Long. Compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, and Calhoun, by William H. Keating.
    Publication Info: Philadelphia,H. C. Carey & I. Lea,1824.
    Contributed By: New York Botanical Garden
    Tags: Discovery and exploration  Northwest Territories  Plants  Winnipeg, Lake, Region (Man.)  
  29. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 / by Captain Back, R.N., commander of the expedition ; illustrated by a map and plates.
    Publication Info: London :John Murray ...,1836
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: 1796-1878  Arctic regions  Back, George,  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Northwest, Canadian  Scientific expeditions  Sir,  
  30. Narrative of the second Arctic expedition made by Charles F. Hall: his voyage to Repulse bay, sledge journeys to the straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William's land, and residence among the Eskimos, during the years 1864-'69. Edited under the orders of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, by Prof. J. E. Nourse, U.S.N. U.S. Naval Observatory, 1879.
    Publication Info: Washington :Govt. Print. Off.,1879.
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: 1786-1847  American  Arctic regions  Discoveries in geography  Discovery and exploration  Eskimos  Franklin, John,  Sir,  United States  
  31. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 / by Charles Wilkes.
    Publication Info: Philadelphia :Lea and Blanchard,1845.
    Contributed By: Gerstein - University of Toronto (archive.org)
    Tags: (1838-1842)  Antarctica  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Hawaii  Oceania  Oregon  South America  United States Exploring Expedition  
  32. Narrative of the United States' exploring expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 / by Charles Wilkes.
    Publication Info: London :Whittaker,[1845]
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: (1838-1842)  Antarctica  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Hawaii  Oceania  Oregon  South America  United States Exploring Expedition  
  33. Northmost Australia : three centuries of exploration, discovery, and adventure in and around the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland : with a study of the narratives of all explorers by sea and land in the light of modern char by Robert Logan Jack.
    Publication Info: London :Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent,1921.
    Contributed By: Robarts - University of Toronto (archive.org)
    Tags: Australia  Cape York Peninsula (Qld.)  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  
  34. Preliminary report of explorations in Nebraska and Dakota, in the years 1855-'56-'57, by Lieut. G.K. Warren, Topographical Engineers ...
    Publication Info: Washington,Govt. Print. Off.,1875.
    Contributed By: Library of Congress (archive.org)
    Tags: Dakota Territory  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Geology  Natural history  Nebraska  United States  
  35. Report intended to illustrate a map of the hydrographical basin of the upper Mississippi river / made by I.N. Nicollet, while in employ under the Bureau of the Corps of Topographical Engineers.
    Publication Info: Washington :Blair and Rives, printers,1843.
    Contributed By: Library of Congress (archive.org)
    Tags: Botany  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  History  Minnesota  Mississippi River Valley  Northwestern States  Paleontology  Saint Louis (Mo.)  United States  West (U.S.)  
  36. Report of the Brown-Harvard Expedition to Nachvak, Labrador, 1900 / by E.B. Delabarre.
    Publication Info: Providence, R.I. :Preston & Rounds Co.,1902.
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: Birds  Botany  Discovery and exploration  Geology  Labrador  Labrador (N.L.)  Newfoundland and Labrador  Scientific expeditions  
  37. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition. 1913-1918 / [leaders: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson, northern party; R. M. Anderson, southern party.] ; general editor: R. M. Anderson.
    Publication Info: Ottawa :F. A. Acland,1919-1946.
    Contributed By: NCSU Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: (1913-1918)  Arctic regions  Canada  Canadian  Canadian Arctic Expedition  Discovery and exploration  Eskimos  Natural history  Scientific expeditions  
  38. Report of the Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel made by order of the Secretary of War according to acts of Congress of March 2, 1867, and March 3, 1869, under the direction of ... A.A. Humphreys, chief of engineers, by Clarence King, U.S. geologist
    Publication Info: [Washington :Govt. Print. Off.,1870-80]
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Birds  Botany  Comstock Lode (Nev.)  Discovery and exploration  Geology  Mines and mineral resources  Paleontology  United States  West (U.S.)  
  39. Report on icthyology.
    Publication Info: Washington,Government Printing Office,1876.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Discovery and exploration  Fishes  United States  Utah  
  40. Report on the Dominion Government expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic islands on board the D.G.S. Neptune, 1903-1904 / by A.P. Low.
    Publication Info: Ottawa :Govt. Print. Bureau,1906.
    Contributed By: Robarts - University of Toronto (archive.org)
    Tags: 1906  Arctic regions  Birds  Botany  canimp  Discovery and exploration  Geology  Hudson Bay  Inuit  Meteorology  Neptune (Steamship)  
  41. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior, by William H. Emory, major First Cavalry, and United States commissioner.
    Publication Info: Washington :C. Wendell, printer,1857-59.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Botany  Boundaries  Discovery and exploration  Geology  Mexico  Rio Grande  Southwest, New  United States  Zoology  
  42. Report upon United States Geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian, in charge of First Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler [...] under the direction of the chief of engineers, U.S. Army. Published by authority of [...] the secretary of war in accordance with acts of Congress of June 23, 1874, and February 15, 1875. In seven volumes and one supplement, accompanied by one topographic and one geologic atlas [...]
    Publication Info: Washington :Govt. print. off.,1875-89.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Surveys  United States  West (U.S.)  
  43. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean. Made under the direction of the secretary of war, in 1853-[b]...
    Publication Info: Washington :A. O. P. Nicholson, printer [etc.],1855-60.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Exploration and surveys  Indians of North America  Natural history  Pacific railroads  United States  West (U.S.)  
  44. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals, strange peoples and countries found in the co By Frederick William Unger, the famous ...
    Publication Info: [Philadelphia?, PA.],c1909.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: 1858-1919  Africa  Africa, Central  Discovery and exploration  Game and game-birds  Roosevelt, Theodore,  
  45. S.O.S. v Arktike : ekspeditsiia "Krasina" / R.L. Samoilovich.
    Publication Info: Berlin :Petropolis,[1930]
    Contributed By: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (archive.org)
    Tags: Arctic regions  Discovery and exploration  Italia (Airship)  Krasin (Ship)  Russian  Scientific expeditions  
  46. Scientific reports. series A
    Publication Info: Sydney :Govt. Printer,1918-1943
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: (1911-1914)  1882-1958  Antarctica  Aurora (Ship)  Australasian Antarctic Expedition  Australian  Discovery and exploration  Geology  Mawson, Douglas,  Oceanography  Scientific expeditions  Sir,  
  47. Scott's last expedition ... Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O. Vol II. Being the reports of the journeys and the scientific work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expediti
    Publication Info: New York,Dodd, Mead and Co.,1913.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: (1910-1913)  Antarctica  British  British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition  Discovery and exploration  South Pole  Terra Nova (Ship)  
  48. Summary narrative of an exploratory expedition to the sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820: resumed and completed, by the discovery of its origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832. By authority of the United States. With appendices, comprising ... all of the official reports and scientific papers of b By Henry R. Schoolcraft.
    Publication Info: Philadelphia,Lippincott, Grambo, and co.,1855.
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Geology  Great Lakes (North America)  Indians of North America  Mississippi River  Mississippi River Valley  Natural history  New York (State)  Northwest, Old  Ojibwa language  Sources  United States  
  49. Three expeditions into the interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales, by Major T. L. Mitchell.
    Publication Info: London :T. & W. Boone,1839.
    Contributed By: University of California Libraries (archive.org)
    Tags: Australia  Discovery and exploration  Natural history  New South Wales  Victoria  
  50. The three voyages of Captain James Cook round the world ...
    Publication Info: London :Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ...,1821.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: 1728-1779  Biography  Cook, James,  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Great Britain  Journeys  Oceania  Officers  Pacific Coast (South America)  Royal Navy  Voyages around the world  
  51. Three voyages of a naturalist : being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla" R.Y.S. / by M. J. Nicoll ; with an introduction by the Earl of Crawford.
    Publication Info: London :Witherby & Co.,1908.
    Contributed By: New York Botanical Garden
    Tags: Birds  Discovery and exploration  Scientific expeditions  Valhalla (Yacht)  Voyages and travels  Voyages around the world  West Indies  
  52. Unter Pinguinen und Seehunden : Erinnerungen von der Schwedischen Südploexpedition 1901-1903 / von S.A. Duse ; einzig autorisierte Übersetzung von Emil Engel.
    Publication Info: Berlin :Wilhelm Baensch,1905.
    Contributed By: American Museum of Natural History Library
    Tags: (1901-1903)  1869-1928  59.84,4S  Antarctica  Discovery and exploration  Natural history  Nordenskjöld, Otto,  Svenska sydpolarexpeditionen  Swedish  
  53. Vitus Bering: the discoverer of Bering Strait. By Peter Lauridsen ... Rev. by the author, and tr. from the Danish by Julius E. Olson ... With an introduction to the American edition by Frederick Schwatka ...
    Publication Info: Chicago,S.C. Griggs & Company,1889.
    Contributed By: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    Tags: 1681-1741  Bering Island  Bering Strait  Bering, Vitus Jonassen,  Discovery and exploration  Kamchatskaia ekspeditsiia  
  54. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 / sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville.
    Publication Info: Paris :J. Tastu,1830-1834.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: (1826-1829)  Astrolabe Expedition  Discovery and exploration  Oceania  
  55. Voyage of the U.S. exploring squadron : commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Navy, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842 : together with explorations and discoveries made by Admiral D'Urville, Captain Ross, and other navi by John S. Jenkins.
    Publication Info: Detroit :Kerr, Doughty, & Laphamn,1853.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: (1838-1842)  Description and travel  Discovery and exploration  Oceania  Palestine  South America  United States Exploring Expedition  
  56. 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 pr Vol. I and II written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III by Captain James King, L.L.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts ... with
    Publication Info: London,Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol, & T. Cadell,1784.
    Contributed By: MBLWHOI Library
    Tags: 1741-1779  Clerke, Charles,  d. 1790  Discovery and exploration  Gore, John,  Northeast Passage  Northwest Passage  Oceania  Pacific Coast  Voyages around the world