Edinburgh Cabinet Library

Arctic animals, illustration from Volume 1 of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library

The Edinburgh Cabinet Library was a series of 38 books, mostly geographical, published from 1830 to 1844, and edited by Dionysius Lardner. The original price was 5 shillings for a volume; a later reissue of 30 of the volumes was at half that price. The publishers were Oliver and Boyd in Edinburgh, and Simpkin & Marshall in London.

Number Year Author Title
1 1830 Sir John Leslie and Hugh Murray Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions
2 1830 Murray, Robert Jameson and James Wilson Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with illustrations of the geology, mineralogy, and zoology
3 1831 Michael Russell Ancient and Modern Egypt
4 1831 Russell Palestine
5 1831 Christian Isobel Johnstone Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier, including a History of the Buccaneers
6, 7, 8 1832 Hugh Murray Historical and Descriptive Account of British India
10 1832 William MacGillivray Travels of A. von Humboldt
11 1833 Patrick Fraser Tytler Life of Walter Raleigh
12 1833 Russell Nubia and Abyssinia
13, 14 1833 Andrew Crichton History of Arabia
15 1834 James Baillie Fraser An Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia
16 1834 MacGillivray Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus
17 1835 Russell The Barbary States
18, 19, 20 1836 Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn, William Wallace, and Gilbert Thomas Burnett An Historical and Descriptive Account of China
21 1836 Anonymous Circumnavigation: Magellan to Cook
22 1837 Tytler Life of Henry the Eighth
23, 24 1838 Crichton with Henry Wheaton Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern
25, 26, 27 1839 Murray, Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Thomas Stewart Traill An Historical and Descriptive Account of British America
28 1840 Anonymous (James Nicol according to the 1844 edition) An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Isles
29, 30, 31 1841 William Spalding Italy and the Italian Islands
32 1841 Fraser Mesopotamia and Assyria
33 1842 Russell Polynesia
34 1843 Anonymous Voyages around the World
35, 36, 37 1844 Murray, natural history by James Nicol United States
38 1844 Murray Travels of Marco Polo