Works
- Voyage in Guiana and upon the Shores of the Orinoco during the Years 1835-'39 (London, 1840; translated into German by his brother Otto, under the title Reisen in Guiana und am Orinoco in den Jahren 1835-'39, Leipsig, 1841, with a preface by Alexander von Humboldt)
- Researches in Guiana, 1837-'39 (1840)
- Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical (London, 1840)
- Views in the Interior of Guiana (1840)
- Baubacenia Alexandrine et Alexandra imperatris (Brunswick, 1845), monograph on plants discovered in British Guiana
- Rapatea Frederici Augusti et Saxo-Frederici regalis (1845), monograph on plants discovered in British Guiana
- History of Barbadoes (London, 1847)
- The Discovery of the Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh (1848)
- Peter Rivière (ed.), The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835-1844, 2 vols (Aldershot: Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2006).
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