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 |
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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 |