Archaeology & Anthropology

Anthropoid apes

Robert Hartmann

The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea

Robert Wood Williamson

The book is a detailed ethnographic report on the Mafulu people of British New Guinea, assembled from the…

Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses

James Fergusson

James Fergusson’s work is a scholarly attempt to bring order to the chaotic field of megalithic studies.

Archæological Essays, Vol. 2

James Young Simpson

James Young Simpson’s Archaeological Essays, Vol. 2 is a scholarly survey that begins with a sweeping…

Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States

Cyrus Thomas

The work is a scholarly survey of the burial mounds erected by the mound‑building peoples of the United…

The Ghost World

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

The work is a scholarly survey of folk beliefs about the soul’s departure at death, assembled by Thomas…

The Play of Man

Karl Groos

The Play of Man is a scholarly treatise that extends Karl Groos’s earlier work on animal play to the human…

Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art

Henry Fairfield Osborn

The work is a scholarly survey of Europe’s Paleolithic record, written by Henry Fairfield Osborn, a noted…

A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228

Mindeleff, Victor; Mindeleff, Cosmos

This work is a scholarly survey of Pueblo architecture focused on the Tusayan and Cibola provinces, presented…

Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt

Lewis Spence

Lewis Spence’s Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt is a scholarly yet popular‑style survey that treats…

Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton’s “Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol.

The Human Race

Louis Figuier

Louis Figuier’s The Human Race is a nineteenth‑century encyclopedic study that sets out to catalogue humanity…

Memorials of Old Dorset

The volume is a scholarly survey of Dorset’s antiquities and history, assembled after the untimely death of…

Castles of Ireland: Some Fortress Histories and Legends

Constance Louisa Adams

Constance Louisa Adams’s Castles of Ireland is a reference work that pairs concise historical sketches with…

The heart of Africa, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Georg August Schweinfurth

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that blends geography, natural history and ethnography as Georg…

The Annals of the Cakchiquels

Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá

The Annals of the Cakchiquels is a scholarly edition that presents the original native manuscript of a…

The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain

George Borrow

The work is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic study of the Romani peoples of Spain, written by George Borrow,…

Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

The work is a Victorian travel memoir by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, an Englishwoman who spent several years in…

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16

Robert Kerr

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16, is a sprawling eighteenth‑century…

The Progress of the Century

The work is a scholarly survey of how the concept of evolution has been shaped from antiquity to the…

Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland

W. H. Davenport Adams

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of magic, alchemy, and witch‑craft in England and Scotland,…

The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science

Henry Alleyne Nicholson

The work presents a systematic survey of paleontology that is deliberately split into two complementary…

In Barbary: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and the Sahara

E. Alexander Powell

This work is a travel‑history of the French‑controlled North‑African lands that were once called Barbary.

History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States.

John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder

John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckel­werder’s work is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic record that combines…