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.[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
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]
^ abcdefghijHenry A. Homes (1856). Catalogue of the New York State Library, 1855-1856: General Library, compiled by Henry A. Homes. C. Van Benthuysen, Printer. p. 243. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Lardner, Dionysius" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review. Curry. 1847. p. 390. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^ abThe Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 1838. p. 66. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Johnstone, Christian Isobel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^Hugh James Rose; Samuel Roffey Maitland (1833). The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, Etc. J. Petheram. pp. 586–. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Fraser, James Baillie" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 20. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^James Nicol (1840). An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands: With Illustrations of Their Natural History. Oliver & Boyd. pp. 419–. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^ abThe Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia. Allen. 1836. pp. 243–. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^Leigh Hunt (1837). The Monthly Repository. C. Fox. p. 255. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^ abThe Dublin University Magazine. William Curry, Jun., and Company. 1840. p. 93. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^ abJames Nicol (1840). An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands: With Illustrations of Their Natural History. Oliver & Boyd. pp. 3–. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Isles (1844), title page.
^Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Spalding, William" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 53. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^James Baillie Fraser (1841). Mesopotamia and Assyria, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Oliver. p. 4. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^John Alexander Ferguson (1976). Bibliography of Australia. National Library Australia. p. 522. ISBN 978-0-642-99046-4. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^ abVoyages Round the World: From the Death of Captain Cook to the Present Time : Including Remarks on the Social Condition of the Inhabitants in the Recently Discovered Countries, Their Progress in the Arts, and More Especially Their Advancement in Religious Knowledge. Oliver & Boyd. 1843. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^ abA list of the books of reference in the reading room of the British Museum. Woodfall and Kinder. 1871. p. 178. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^Hugh Murray; James Nicol (1844). The United States of America: Their History from the Earliest Period; Their Industry, Commerce, Banking Transactions, and National Works; Their Institutions and Character, Political, Social, and Literary: with a Survey of the Territory, and Remarks on the Prospects and Plans of Emigrants. Oliver & Boyd. pp. 3–. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
^Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Murray, Hugh" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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