Treasures of the Library: Titles and Authors

Below is a small selection of books, Treasures of the Library, some of which were bequeathed to Plymouth Library by Alfred Edward Moxon in 1930, and some of which were donated following the destruction of the Central Library in the early Summer of 1941.

Birds   |   Butterflies   |   Fish   |   Natural history   |   Anthropology
Naval   |   Exploration and travel   |   Various

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Birds

Aplin, OV: The Birds of Oxfordshire (1889)

Balston, RJ: Notes on the Birds of Kent (1907)

Bolam, George: Birds of Northumberland and the Eastern Borders (1912)

Broinowski, Gracius J: The Birds of Australia (6 volumes) (1891)

Chapman, Abel: Bird-Life of the Borders (1907)

Christy, Miller: The Birds of Essex (1890)

Cory, Charles: The Birds of the Bahama Islands (1880)

Cory, Charles: The Birds of the West Indies (1889)

Dresser, Henry E: A History of the Birds of Europe (9 volumes) (1881 to 1896)

Dresser, Henry E: Eggs of the Birds of Europe (2 volumes) (1910)

Hachisuka, Masa U: Birds of Japan and the British Isles (1925)

Gould, John: The Birds of Great Britain (1873) (5 volumes)

Gregory M Mathews: The Birds of Australia (12 volumes) (1910 to 1927)

Layard, Edgar Leopold: The Birds of South Africa (1884)

Seebohm, Henry: The Birds of Siberia (1901)

Stuart Baker, EC: Indian Pigeons and Doves (1913)

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Butterflies

Frohawk, FW: Natural History of British Butterflies (2 volumes) (1914)

Lang, Henry: The Butterflies of Europe: described and figured (2 volumes) (1884)

Morris, Francis Orpen: A History of British Butterflies (1870)

Wilson, Owen: The Larve of the British Lepidoptera and their Food Plants (1880)

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Fish

Bloch, Marc Éliéser: Ichtyologie ou Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des poissons (3 volumes) (1785 to 1787)

Houghton, William: British Fresh-Water Fishes (1879)

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Natural history

Borlase, William: Natural History of Cornwall (1758)

Goldsmith, Oliver: A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (2 volumes) (circa 1850)

Moseley, HN: Notes by a Naturalist on the ‘Challenger’ (1879)

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Anthropology

Brett, WH: Indian Tribes of Guiana (1868)

Catlin, George: North American Indians (2 volumes) (1876)

Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon: Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa, with notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros, &c. (2 volumes) (1850)

Prescott, William H: History of the Conquest of Peru with a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas (2 volumes) (1847)

Schoolcraft, Henry R: Indian Tribes of the United States (6 volumes) (1852 to 1860)
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Naval

Allen, Joseph: Battles of the British Navy: from AD 1000 to 1840 (2 volumes) (1842)

Berkley, George: Naval History of Britain: from the earliest periods (1756)

Burchett, Josiah: A Complete History of the most remarkable transactions at sea from the earliest accounts of time (1720)

Cowley, J: The Sailor's Companion, and Merchantman's Convoy: shewing the military power of the Lord High-Admiral, and the duty and conduct of all superior and inferior officers of the Royal Navy of Great Britain ... (1740)

Entick, John: A New Naval History: or complete view of the British marine, including the Royal Navy and merchant’s service (1757)

Falck, ND: A Philosophical Dissertation on the Diving Vessel, projected by Mr Day, and Sunk in Plymouth Sound (1775)

Falconer, William: An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: or, A copious explanation of the technical terms and phrases employed in the construction, equipment, furniture, machinery, movements and military operations of a ship (1771) and (1780)

Knowles, John: The Elements and Practice of Naval Architecture (3 volumes) (1817 to 1820)

Russel, J Scott: The Modern System of Naval Architecture (3 volumes) (1865)

Vocabulaire des termes de marine Anglois et Francois (1777)

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Exploration and travel

Barth, Henry: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa: journal of an expedition on the years 1849 to 1855 (5 volumes ) (1857)

Bennett, Frederick Debell: Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Around the Globe (2 volumes) (1840)

Carne, John: Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, etc. illustrated with views drawn from nature (1836)

Collins, Lt. Col.: An Account of the English Colony of New South Wales (1804)

Collinson, Richard: Journal of HMS Enterprise: on the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin's ships (1889)

Collinson, Richard: The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher (1867)

Cook, James: A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, performed....in the years 1772 to 1775 (2 volumes) (1777)

Cook, James: A voyage to the Pacific Ocean....for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere (2 volumes) (1785)

Cook, James: The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World (7 volumes) (1821 to 1822)

Cooke, Edward: A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, Perform'd in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711 (1712)

Dampier, William: A New Voyage Round the World (1697)

Darwin, Charles, Fitzroy, Robert and King, Philip Barker: Narrative Of The Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle (3 volumes and appendix) (1839)

Erskine, John Elphinstone: Journal of a Cruise Among the Islands of the Western Pacific (1853)

Franklin, John: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21 and 22 (1823)

Franklin, John: Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1825, 1826 and 1827 (1828)

Maxwell, Marius: Stalking Big Game With a Camera in Equatorial Africa (1925)

Pallas, PS: Travels Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794 (2 volumes) (1802 to 1803)

Pitton de Tournefort, Joseph: A Voyage into the Levant (1718)

Storch, Henry: Picture of Petersburg (1801)

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Various subjects

Alighieri, Dante: La divina commedia (1791)

Bacon, Francis: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England (10 volumes) (1819)

Bayley, Harold: The Lost Language of Symbolism: an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies (2 volumes) (1912)

Borlase, William: Antiquities, Historical and Monumental in the County of Cornwall (1769)

Breasted, James Henry: Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt (1924)

Brunton, Winifred: Great Ones of Ancient Egypt: illustrated by Winifred Brunton (1924)

Culpeper, Nicholas: The Complete Herbal (1835)

Descartes, Renes: Tractatus de homine et de formatione foetus (1677)

Foulston, John: The Public Buildings Erected in the West Country by John Foulston (1838)

Gilbert, Charles Sandoe: Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall (3 volumes) (1817 to 1820)

Latham, Charles: In English Homes: the internal character, furniture and adornments of some of the most notable houses of England historically depicted from photographs (1904)

Lysons, Daniel and Lysons, Samuel: A Topographical History of Devonshire (5 volumes) (1867)

Milton Thomas: The Chimney-Piece Maker’s Daily Assistant (1766)

Searle, Mark: Turnpikes and Toll-Bars (2 volumes) (1930)

Johnson, Samuel: A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers: to which are prefixed, a history of the language, an English grammar (1786)

Johnson, Samuel: A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings (1813)

Mudge, Thomas: A Narrative of Facts Relating to Some Time-Keepers (1792)

Ralegh, Walter: History of the World (1687)

The New Cheats of London Exposed (1792)

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