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41Title:  The American vade mecum: or, the companion of youth, and guide to college : a book of miscellanies    
 Creator:  Pate, Henry Clay, 1832-1864 
 Publication:  Morgan & Co, Cincinnati,1852. 
 Notes:  Illustration of the Lawn, University of Virginia, on cover. "The tale entitled Arthur Allen ... was published in one of the Cincinnati daily papers." 'Disappointed hopes' was also published in the same paper." p. ix. "To advocate the claims of the University of Virginia upon American fathers." Introd. 
 Call #:  F16U P295 
 Extent:  ix, [2], 13-182 p. : front. (port.) plates. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia | Virginia -- Social life and customs | Virginia -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Miscellanea | Ohio imprints
 
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42Title:  Historical collections of Virginia: containing a collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c., relating to its history and antiquities, together with geographical and statistical descriptions : to which is appended, an historical and descriptive sketch of the District of Columbia : illustrated by over 100 engravings, giving views of the principal towns, seats of eminent men, public buildings, relics of antiquity, historic localities, natural scenery, etc., etc    
 Creator:  Howe, Henry, 1816-1893 
 Publication:  Babcock & Co, Charleston, S.C,1845. 
 Notes:  Title vignette. Four variants of this title have been identified. See below for details. Variant 1: 1) t.p. vignette of Arms of Virginia, (featuring a woman holding a weapon in one hand, with the left arm extended) against abackground of agricultural and industrial scenes; 2) verso of t.p. is blank; 3) p. 108, last two lines, states that powder was removed on the "19th of April, 1775"; 4) p. 146 (Members of the Old Congress), details of Thomas Nelson's death are given as "died April 1833, aged 88"; 5) plate facing p. 304 has caption title "Richmond"; 6) 3 lines of errata on p. 544, 2 of which point out the errors on p. 108 and p. 146. Variant 2: 1) t.p. vignette of Arms of Virginia (featuring a woman holding a weapon in each hand, with left elbow bent) against a background of clouds; 2) verso of t.p. has copyright notice; 3) p. 108, last two lines, states that powder was removed on the "19th of April, 1775"; 4) p. 146 (Members of the Old Congress), details of Thomas Nelson's death are given as "died April 1833, aged 88"; 5) plate facing p. 304 has caption title "Richmond" followed by a line of descriptive text; 6) 3 lines of errata on p. 544, 2 of which point out the errors on p. 108 and p. 146. Variant 3: 1) t.p. vignette of Arms of Virginia (featuring a woman holding a weapon in each hand, with left elbow bent) against a background of clouds; 2) verso of t.p. blank; 3) p. 108, last two lines, states that powder was removed on the "20th of April, 1775"; 4) p. 146 (Members of the Old Congress), details of Thomas Nelson's death are given as "died Jan. 4, 1789, aged 50"; 5) plate facing p. 304 has caption title "Richmond" followed by a line of descriptive text; 6) 3 lines of errata on p. 544, although the 2 errors on p. 108 and 146 have been corrected. Variant 4: 1) t.p. vignette of Arms of Virginia (featuring a woman holding a weapon in each hand, with left elbow bent) against a background of clouds; 2) verso of t.p. has copyright notice; 3) p. 108, last two lines, states that powder was removed on the "20th of April, 1775"; 4) p. 146 (Members of the Old Congress), details of Thomas Nelson's death are given as "died April 1833, aged 88"; 5) plate facing p. 304 has caption title "Richmond" followed by a line of descriptive text; 6) 1 line of errata on p. 544, those referring to errors on p. 108 and 146 having been removed. Variant 3 has portraits of Thomas Jefferson (p. 167) and George Washington (p. 260) that are not present in the others. Do not know if this is another bibliographic point, or if the plates are wanting. Includes indexes. 
 Call #:  F16D H855 
 Extent:  544 p., [21] p. of plates : ill., fold. map ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Virginia -- History, Local | Virginia -- History | Virginia -- Description and travel | Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel
 
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43Title:  South-west Virginia and the Valley: historical and biographical    
 Creator:  Bruce, Thomas. 
 A.D. Smith & Co. (Roanoke, Va.)
 Publication:  Heritage Books, Inc, Bowie, Md,[1987?] 
 Notes:  "For much of the historical matter the publishers are under obligations to Mr. Thomas Bruce." --Pref. Reprint. Originally published: Roanoke, Va. : A.D. Smith & Co., 1892. Includes index. 
 Call #:  F16D S728 1987 
 Extent:  527 p. : ports. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Virginia -- Description and travel | Shenandoah Valley (Va.) -- History | Virginia -- Biography | Virginia -- History, Local | Shenandoah Valley (Va.) -- Biography
 
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44Title:  A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia    
 Creator:  Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621 
 Publication:  Dodd, Mead, & Company, New York,1903. 
 Notes:  From the copy of the original edition in the possession of Mr. E.D. Church of New York; reprinted from the Bibliographer, v. 1. "Limited to five hundred and twenty copies, of which twenty are on Japan paper." 
 Call #:  F16DA H312B 
 Extent:  xiii p., 24 Á. (facsim. sig. A to F, in fours) illus. (1 wdct.) 23 x 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Virginia | Roanoke Colony (N.C.) | Virginia -- Description and travel | Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
 
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45Title:  A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia: Sir Walter Raleigh's colony of MDLXXXV    
 Creator:  Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621 
 Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886
 Publication:  Privately print, London,1900. 
 Notes:  Introduction signed "Outis, secretary" [i.e. pseud. of Henry Stevens] Title within ornamental border. Cover title: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia by Thomas Hariot ... Ed. by Henry Stevens of Vermont. Colophon: Reprinted by C. Whittingham, 1877. Reprint of the original English ed., 1588, from the copy in the Grenville Library, British Museum. Privately printed for H. N. Stevens. "One hundred and fifty copies only printed on small paper, and thirty-three copies only on large paper, of which this is small paper no. 32. H. N. S." The biography and bibliography of Hariot, which was at first intended to form part of the introduction, is issued as "a separate and distinct volume" but uniform with the Briefe report, as a companion volume. cf. Introduction: p. xi. "The two volumes, Hariot's Virginia and the Life of Hariot, were practically complete ... fourteen years ago" [i.e. in 1886]--H. N. Stevens, Explan. note prefixed to the life of Hariot. 
 Call #:  F16DA H312B1 
 Extent:  xvii, 84 p. illus. 16 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Virginia | Roanoke Colony (N.C.) | Virginia -- Description and travel | Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
 
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46Title:  Notes on the state of Virginia    
 Creator:  Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 
 Publication:  J.W. Randolph, Richmond, Va,1853. 
 Notes:  "Printed from President Jefferson's own copy of Stockdale's edition [1787] containing many additions and corrections."--Sabin, Bibl. amer. 
 Call #:  F16J J45N 1853 
 Extent:  275 p., [6] p. of plates : 1 ill., maps (some fold.) 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Logan, James, -- d. 1780 | Slavery -- Virginia | Virginia | Virginia -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Social life and customs
 
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47Title:  Chesapeake Bay and Tidewater    
 Creator:  Bodine, A. Aubrey, 1906-1970 
 Publication:  Hastings House, New York],[1954] 
 Call #:  F13X C524B 
 Extent:  144 p. (chiefly illus.) map (on lining papers) 32 cm. 
 Subjects:  Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) | Maryland -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Description and travel | Delaware -- Description and travel
 
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48Title:  The first explorations of the Trans-Allegheny region by the Virginians, 1650-1674    
 Creator:  Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 1868-1928 
 Bidgood, Lee, 1884-1963
 Publication:  Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland,1912. 
 Notes:  Includes index. Bibliography: p. [251]-258. 
 Call #:  F15J A476 
 Extent:  275 p., [1] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Southern States -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Description and travel | Allegheny Mountains | Cleveland imprints 1912
 
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49Title:  Notes on a journey in America: from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois    
 Creator:  Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825 
 Publication:  Printed by Severn & Co., for James Ridgway, London,1819. 
 Call #:  F36J B619N2 
 Extent:  iv, 156 p. fold. col. map. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | United States -- Description and travel | Northwest, Old | Edwards County (Ill.) | Virginia -- Description and travel
 
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50Title:  Rambles in the path of the steam-horse: an off-hand olla podrida, embracing a general historical and descriptive view of the scenery, agricultural and mineral resources, and prominent features of the travelled route from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, Cumberland, Wheeling, Cincinnati, and Louisville    
 Creator:  Bowen, Eli, b. 1824 
 Publication:  Wm. Bromwell and Wm. W. Smith, Philadelphia,1855, c1854. 
 Notes:  Added t.-p., illustrations in colors: Baltimore & Ohio R. road. Includes index. 
 Call #:  E166 B78 
 Extent:  v-viii, 432 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company | Maryland -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Description and travel | Ohio -- Description and travel
 
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51Title:  William Byrd's histories of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina    
 Creator:  Byrd, William, 1674-1744 
 Boyd, William Kenneth, 1879-1938
 Publication:  North Carolina Historical Commission, Raleigh,1929. 
 Notes:  The author's "History of the dividing line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina," and his hitherto unpublished "Secret history of the line," which is another version of the same subject matter, are here printed on opposite pages. 
 Call #:  F16DA B995B 
 Extent:  xxvii, 341 p. maps (1 fold.) facsims. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Virginia -- Boundaries -- North Carolina | North Carolina -- Boundaries -- Virginia | Virginia -- Description and travel | North Carolina -- Description and travel
 
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52Title:  The Chesapeake bay country    
 Creator:  Earle, Swepson. 
 Publication:  Thomsen-Ellis company, Baltimore, Md,1923. 
 Notes:  "Books ... consulted and quoted": p. 16. 
 Call #:  F13X C524E 
 Extent:  510, [2] p. incl. col. front., plates (part col.) ports., map (facsim.) col. fold. map. 26 cm. 
 Subjects:  Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) | Virginia -- Description and travel | Maryland -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Historic houses, etc | Maryland -- Historic houses, etc
 
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53Title:  The Chesapeake Bay country    
 Creator:  Earle, Swepson. 
 Publication:  Thomsen-Ellis company, Baltimore, Md,1929. 
 Notes:  "Books ... consulted and quoted": p. 16. 
 Call #:  F13X C524E 1929 
 Extent:  5 p. Á., [13]-520 p. incl. plates (part col.) ports., map (facsim.) col. front., ports., fold. map. 26 cm. 
 Subjects:  Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) | Virginia -- Description and travel | Maryland -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Historic houses, etc | Maryland -- Historic houses, etc
 
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54Title:  Christopher Gist's journals: with historical, geographical and ethnological notes and biographies of his contemporaries by William M. Darlington    
 Creator:  Gist, Christopher, d. 1759 
 Darlington, William M. (William McCullough), 1815-1889
 Publication:  J. R. Weldin & Co, Pittsburg,1893. 
 Notes:  The first and second expeditions were made in the interests of the Ohio Company ; the third in company with Maj. George Washington, to deliver a letter from the Virginia government to the commander of the French forts. 
 Call #:  F36J G535 
 Extent:  296 p. : maps ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ohio Company (1747-1779) | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Description and travel | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763
 
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55Title:  On horseback: a tour in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee ; with notes of travel in Mexico and California    
 Creator:  Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 
 Publication:  Houghton, Mifflin and company, Boston, New York,1894, c1888. 
 Call #:  F15J W279 
 Extent:  331 p. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Virginia -- Description and travel | North Carolina -- Description and travel | Tennessee -- Description and travel | Mexico -- Description and travel | California -- Description and travel
 
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56Title:  Washington and the West: being George Washington's diary of September, 1784, kept during his journey into the Ohio basin in the interest of a commercial union between the Great Lakes and the Potomac River    
 Creator:  Washington, George, 1732-1799 
 Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933
 Publication:  The Century Co, New York,1905. 
 Notes:  The diary is reproduced from the original ms. preserved in the Library of Congress. 
 Call #:  E312.8 1784a 
 Extent:  6 p. Á., 3-217 p. front., 1 illus. (plan) maps (part fold.) 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Inland navigation -- United States | Virginia -- Description and travel | West Virginia -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- History -- To 1795
 
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57Title:  Tidewater Virginia    
 Creator:  Wilstach, Paul, 1870-1952 
 Publication:  The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis,[c1929] 
 Notes:  "First edition." 
 Call #:  F16J W754 
 Extent:  326 p. incl. front. plates, ports., double map. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Virginia -- Historic houses, etc | Virginia -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Social life and customs -- To 1775 | Northern Neck (Va.)
 
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58Title:  Narrative of the first English plantation of Virginia    
 Creator:  Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621 
 Publication:  B. Quaritch, London,1893. 
 Notes:  Includes facsimile of t.-p. of 1590 edition. 
 Call #:  F16DA H312 
 Extent:  111 p. illus. 23 x 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Virginia | Roanoke Colony (N.C.) | Virginia -- Description and travel | Virginia -- History -- Colonial period -- Sources
 
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59Title:  To the Shenandoah and beyond: the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching their scencery, noting their legends, portraying social and material progress, and explaining routes of travel    
 Creator:  Ingersol, Ernest, 1852- 
 Publication:  Leve & Alden Printing Company, New York,1885. 
 Notes:  "Winter excursions by the Shenandoah Valley and Kennesaw routes to Jacksonville, Fla.": p. [117]-125. 
 Call #:  F16J I47 
 Extent:  3 p.l., [5]-125, [1] p. front. (fold. plan) illus. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Railroads -- Southern States | Shenandoah Valley -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Description and travel | Tennessee -- Description and travel
 
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60Title:  Notes on the state of Virginia: With an appendix relative to the murder of Logan's family    
 Creator:  Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 
 Publication:  Printed by Wilson & Blackwell, July 12, Trenton,1803. 
 Notes:  List of subscribers names: p. [357]-363. 
 Call #:  F16J J45N 1803 
 Extent:  363 p. fold. tab. 16 cm. 
 Subjects:  Logan, James, -- d. 1780 | Slavery -- Virginia | Virginia -- Description and travel | Virginia -- Social life and customs | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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