The Edinburgh Cabinet Library was a series of 38 books, mostly geographical, published from 1830 to 1844, and edited by Dionysius Lardner. [1] [2] The original price was 5 shillings for a volume; a later reissue of 30 of the volumes was at half that price. [3] The publishers were Oliver and Boyd in Edinburgh, and Simpkin & Marshall in London. [4]
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 [5] |
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 [6] | Life of Walter Raleigh [1] |
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 [7] |
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 [8] | An Historical and Descriptive Account of China |
21 | 1836 [9] | Anonymous [9] | Circumnavigation: Magellan to Cook [1] |
22 | 1837 | Tytler [10] | Life of Henry the Eighth [1] |
23, 24 | 1838 | Crichton with Henry Wheaton [4] | Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern |
25, 26, 27 | 1839 [11] | Murray, Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Thomas Stewart Traill [11] | An Historical and Descriptive Account of British America [1] |
28 | 1840 [12] | Anonymous ( James Nicol according to the 1844 edition) [12] [13] | An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Isles |
29, 30, 31 | 1841 | William Spalding | Italy and the Italian Islands [14] |
32 | 1841 | Fraser [15] | Mesopotamia and Assyria [1] |
33 | 1842 | Russell [16] | Polynesia [1] |
34 | 1843 [17] | Anonymous [17] | Voyages around the World [1] |
35, 36, 37 | 1844 [18] | Murray, natural history by James Nicol [18] [19] | United States [1] |
38 | 1844 | Murray [20] | Travels of Marco Polo [1] |