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 | |
| 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 | Circumnavigation: Magellan to Cook | |
| 22 | 1837 | Tytler[10] | Life of Henry the Eighth | |
| 23, 24 | 1838 | Crichton with Henry Wheaton | Scandinavia, Ancient and Modern | |
| 25, 26, 27 | 1839[11] | Murray, Wilson, Robert Kaye Greville, Thomas Stewart Traill | An Historical and Descriptive Account of British America | |
| 28 | 1840[12] | Anonymous (James Nicol according to the 1844 edition)[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 | |
| 33 | 1842 | Russell[16] | Polynesia | |
| 34 | 1843[17] | Anonymous | Voyages around the World | |
| 35, 36, 37 | 1844[18] | Murray, natural history by James Nicol[19] | United States | |
| 38 | 1844 | Murray[20] | Travels of Marco Polo |