Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/Synoptic index, World
These pages contain a subject and place index (still under construction!) to the books scanned to create the British Library's Mechanical Curator collection of images.
Each entry in the index points to the images on Flickr which match the tag for the book. Additionally, when there are images from a book that have been copied over to Commons, this is shown with a green clickable (Book cat) link, which links to the relevant Commons category for the book.
A full list of the titles of the books that were scanned for the collection is also available, at
and succeeding pages, which may help browsing what is available.
The index is not (yet) complete. As of January 22, 2014 the titles in the detailed part of the index below accounted for about 40% of the images in the whole collection. A further 35% of images can be found through a more loosely organised set of "to do" pages constructed based on the books' class-marks, while a further 20% of images occur in books which are classed below as fiction, plays, verse or works. The focus of the indexing so far has been mostly geographical, with little development as yet of thematic classification.
The Commons main project page for the collection gives some further hints on searching; on how to upload the images to Commons, and on how to tag images on Flickr. If you do upload images to Commons, please create a Commons category for the book they were taken from, like those in Category:Books with images from the British Library Mechanical Curator collection, and include the images in it. The template {{HasBookCat}} can then be used to create a link to the category (on a green background) from the book's entry in this list.
Georeferencing campaign: For any titles below that have a to georef template, please click on that templated link to find the thumbnails and then the pages on Flickr for the relevant map and plan images, and follow the links in their image description sections to the BL/Klokan Georeferencer to place the images on a present-day map of the world. This in turn should allow the map images' ready upload to Wikimedia Commons with reasonably accurate automatic categorisation. See also: BL information page and overall progress page.
Synoptic index
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| UK and Ireland
| Americas
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Geographical
[edit]- See also: ./to do/geography;
./to do/Anthropology and Ethnology; ./to do/World voyages and travel
- A New Geographical Dictionary; containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states and provinces ... in the known world ... together with the population of the counties, cities and towns in England, Scotland, and Wales ... Illustrated with plates and maps, etc (1814; 30 images, 29 plates; no maps)
- The illustrated universal gazetteer (1860; 382 images; no maps)
- Beeton's Dictionary of Geography. A universal gazetteer. Illustrated by maps, etc (1868; 138 images, 126 plates; 13 maps to georef )
- The Imperial Gazetteer; a general dictionary of geography, physical, political, statistical and descriptive ... Edited by W. G. Blackie ... With ... illustrations, etc. (1874; 821 images, 41 plates; 187 maps to georef )
- A Supplement to the Imperial Gazetteer ... Edited by W. G. Blackie ... Illustrated, etc (1868; 79 images; 17 maps to georef )
- The World: historical and actual (1882; 800 images, 207 plates; 14 maps to georef )
- The Two Hemispheres: a popular account of the countries and peoples of the world (1885; 416 images, 93 plates; 38 maps to georef )
- The Australian Abroad (1885; 73 images, 12 plates; no maps) (various Asian countries)
- Longman's School Geography for India and Ceylon (1891; 64 images, 18 plates; 2 maps)
— Map books
[edit]- A New Gazetteer of the Eastern Continent; or a Geographical Dictionary: containing ... a description of all the countries, kingdoms, states ... &c. in Europe, Asia, Africa, and their adjacent Islands ... Illustrated with eighteen maps. Designed as a second volume, to the American Gazetteer (1802; 17 images, 17 plates; 17 maps to georef )
- A new and complete System of Universal Geography: or an authentic history of the whole world ... Illustrated by ... a new set of accurate maps, forming a ... complete atlas (1814; 86 images, 85 plates; 32 maps to georef )
- The Boston School Atlas. With elemental geography and astronomy, etc. (Fourth edition.) Maps, with explanatory text. (1831; 23 images, 16 plates; 15 maps )
- A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer, being a delineation of the present state of the World ... constituting a systematic Dictionary of Geography ... Illustrated by a series of maps, forming a complete Atlas and a selection of appropriate views (1834; 130 images, 129 plates; 77 maps to georef )
- Atlas (1839; 19 images, 19 plates; 19 maps )
- The New Universal Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary, etc (1842; 32 images, 28 plates; 32 maps to georef )
- A Cyclopædia of Geography, descriptive and physical, forming a new general gazetteer of the world and dictionary of pronunciation, etc (1856; 217 images, 1 plate; 2 maps); 1859 edition (226 images, 10 plates; 11 maps to georef ); 1862 edition (256 images, 40 plates; 21 maps to georef ); 1880 edition (91 images, 3 plates; 9 maps to georef )
- A Gazetteer of the World ... Edited by a member of the Royal Geographical Society, etc (1860; 261 images, 148 plates; 151 maps to georef )
- L'enseignement pratique de la géographie. Atlas, cartes, textes & questionnaires ... Cours móyen (1878; 64 images, 22 plates; 23 maps to georef )
- L'enseignement pratique de la géographie. Atlas, cartes, textes & questionnaires ... Cours élémentaire (1878; 44 images, 9 plates; 12 maps to georef )
- Oliver and Boyd's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World, descriptive and statistical, with etymological notices, etc. (1880; 65 images, 64 plates; 64 maps to georef ); 1881 edition (65 images, 64 plates; 64 maps to georef ); 1883 edition (65 images, 64 plates; 64 maps to georef )
Exploration
[edit]- Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages ... Nouvelle édition, etc (1820; 28 images; no maps)
- Histoire universelle des Voyages. Relation succincte et pittoresque des navigations et des découvertes les plus intéressantes faits dans les temps les plus reculés par les Egyptiens, les Carthagenois et les Grecs; dans le moyen âge par les Portugais, les Espagnols et les Venetiens: dans les temps modernes par C. Colomb. Magellan, Mendoce et Mindana; ... et de nos jours, par Levaillant, Krusenstern, Kotzebue ... Ouvrage orné de gravures (1860; 20 images, 8 plates; no maps)
- Histoire générale des grands voyages et des grands voyageurs. Les Voyageurs du XIXe Siècle ... 51 Dessins par L. Benett, etc (1880; 110 images, 109 plates; 17 maps to georef )
- Nouvelle histoire des voyages et des grandes découvertes géographiques ... Ouvrage illustré ... d'après les dessins de Sahib, etc (1883; 138 images, 58 plates; no maps)
- Histoire des Voyages. Les Explorateurs contemporains. Livingstone. Stanley. Nordenskiold. Crevaux. Savorgnan de Brazza (1888; 39 images, 19 plates; no maps)
British Empire
[edit]- The British Colonies; their history, extent, condition, and resources (1851; 262 images, 242 plates; 79 maps to georef )
- Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867 ... With maps and illustrations. With plates. (1868; 20 images, 8 plates; 6 maps)
- Forty Thousand Miles over Land and Water. The Journal of a tour through the British Empire and America ... With ... illustrations ... Second edition (1886; 33 images, 19 plates; 1 map)
- Round the Globe through Greater Britain ... Edited by W. C. Procter. With ... illustrations (1887; 186 images, 33 plates; no maps)
- (Book cat) A Historical Geography of the British Colonies (of the British Empire) (1888; 26 images, 22 plates; 22 maps to georef )
- The British Empire: its geography, resources, commerce, land-ways and water-ways (1891; 48 images, 5 plates; 36 maps to georef )
- La Maison John Bull et Cie. John Bull & Co. The Great Colonial Branches of the Firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (1894; 62 images, 5 plates; no maps)
Arctic
[edit]- See also: ./to do/Arctic
- Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 ... Illustrated by a map and plates (1836; 26 images, 16 plates; 2 maps to georef )
- Arctic Searching Expedition: a journal of a boat-voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in search of the discovery ships under the command of Sir John Franklin (1851; 18 images, 10 plates; no maps)
- The Doomed Ship; or, the Wreck of the Arctic Regions. (1856; 17 images, 16 plates; no maps)
- The eventful voyage of H.M. Discovery Ship “Resolute” to the Arctic Regions in search of Sir J. Franklin. ... To which is added an account of her being fallen in with by an American Whaler after her abandonment ... and of her presentation to Queen Victoria by the Government of the United States (1857; 35 images, 10 plates; 1 map to georef )
- The Voyage of the “Fox” in the Arctic Seas. A narrative of the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions. With maps and illustrations and a preface by Sir R. I. Murchison (1859; 24 images, 12 plates; 4 maps to georef )
- The Open Polar Sea: a narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North Pole, in the Schooner “United States.” With illustrations. (1867; 39 images, 9 plates; 3 maps to georef )
- Arctic Experiences: containing Capt. George E. Tyson's ... drift on the ice-floe, a history of the Polaris expedition, the cruise of the Tigress, and rescue of the Polaris survivors ... Edited by E. V. Blake. With plates. (1874; 79 images, 18 plates; 2 maps)
- Arctic Expeditions from British and foreign shores from the earliest to the Expedition of 1875 (76) ... Numerous coloured illustrations, maps (1875; 25 images, 25 plates; 1 map)
- Yachting in the Arctic Seas, or, notes of five voyages ... in the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zembya ... Edited and illustrated by W. Livesay (1876; 29 images, 22 plates; 2 maps)
- The Great Frozen Sea. A personal narrative of the voyage of the “Alert” during the Arctic Expedition of 1875, 6 (1878; 40 images, 12 plates; 2 maps)
- (Book cat (100%)) Lapland Life; or, summer adventures in the Arctic Regions. ... Second edition (1878; 38 images, 13 plates; 1 map)
- The Arctic Voyages of A. E. Nordenskiöld. 1858-1879. With illustrations and maps (1879; 48 images, 8 plates; 4 maps )
- Un Voyage à la Mer Polaire ... suivi de notes sur l'histoire naturelle par W. H. Feilden. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglais ... par F. Bernard, et contenant 62 gravures, etc (1880; 65 images, 30 plates; 2 maps )
- L'Expédition de la Jeannette au Pole Nord, racontée par tous les membres de l'expédition. Ouvrage composé des documents reçus par le “New York Herald” de 1878 à 1882, traduits par J. Geslin. Avec ... illustrations (1883; 42 images, 29 plates; 8 maps to georef )
- Nimrod in the North, or hunting and fishing adventures in the Arctic regions (1885; 76 images, 49 plates; no maps)
- In Arctic Seas. The voyage of the “Kite” with the Peary expedition together with a transcript of the log of the “Kite” ... Illustrated, etc (1893; 121 images, 34 plates; maps)
- The Arctic Problem and Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1893; 16 images, 3 plates; maps)
- (Book cat) From Franklin to Nansen: tales of Arctic Adventure ... With numerous illustrations (1899; 38 images, 16 plates; maps)
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