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Originally written in the second century CE, Pausanias' Description of Greece is shown here in a fifteenth century manuscript, and tells the cultural geography of Greece from a Roman perspective.

This is a photograph and excerpt from British travel writer Ella Constance Sykes's 1898 travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle'

This item is a lettter of marque from Captain Antoine Bollo, conceded on February 27, 1809 by Mr. Dominique Malfino of Gênes, owner of the ship "Furet", a corsair (pirate ship) weighing fifteen 15 tons.

The item is a drawing of the entrance to the Kipling Room, featured as part of an article for the the Dalhousie Review Vol. 26 No. 2

Scrapbook contains Rudyard Kipling’s early works in the Pioneer Mail. Compiled by Sir William Garth (1854-1923), a British lawyer and advocate serving in Kolkata, India from 1885-1913, then acquired by Kipling collector Ellis Ames Ballard…

This image is a watercolour print taken from William Gilpin's 1782 book Observations on the River Wye.

This is an image of the title page to William Gilpin's book Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales, published in 1782.

This image shows Abraham Ortelius's rendering of the imagined nation in Thomas More's Utopia.

This is a 1750 painting of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews painted by Thomas Gainsborough, showing the recently married landed gentry couple standing before their newly acquired picturesque property.

Illustrations of locations from Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque.