Archaeology & Anthropology

History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII.

Philip Ainsworth Means

This volume is a scholarly compilation produced by the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology…

The legend of Perseus, Volume 3 (of 3): Andromeda. Medusa.

Edwin Sidney Hartland

Hartland’s third volume continues the scholarly survey begun in the earlier parts of his three‑volume work on…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3

Humboldt, Alexander von; Bonpland, Aimé

The work is a scientific travelogue by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, documenting their expedition…

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The work is a Victorian‑era travelogue that blends personal narrative with ethnographic observation of…

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6)

Jacob Bryant

Jacob Bryant’s A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology is a scholarly treatise that seeks to strip…

Stirring scenes in savage lands: An account of the manners, customs, habits and recreations, peaceful and warlike, of the uncivilised world

James Greenwood

Stirring Scenes in Savage Lands is an expansive ethnographic travelogue that strings together a series of…

Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—Konkan

A. M. T. Jackson

Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II, Konkan is a scholarly survey of the myriad religious customs that animate village…

Visits to Fields of Battle, in England, of the Fifteenth Century to which are added, some miscellaneous tracts and papers upon archæological subjects

Richard Brooke

Richard Brooke’s work is a detailed survey of fifteenth‑century English battlefields, beginning with a…

Egyptian Art: Studies

G. Maspero

The work is a collection of scholarly essays by Gaston Maspero that span more than three decades, originally…

The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton, chronicling his expedition…

The Myths of Mexico & Peru

Lewis Spence

The work is a scholarly survey of pre‑Columbian mythology and archaeology, concentrating on the peoples of…

Ifugao Law (In American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 15, No. 1)

Roy Franklin Barton

Ifugao Law is a scholarly ethnographic study that treats the customary legal system of the Ifugao people as a…

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Part 1 (of 2)

Herndon, William Lewis; Gibbon, Lardner

The work is a formal naval report by Lieutenant William Lewis Herndon, written with Lieutenant Lardner…

Primitive Love and Love-Stories

Henry T. Finck

The work is a scholarly survey that treats love as an evolutionary and cultural phenomenon, beginning with a…

A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.

Roger Williams

This work is a seventeenth‑century linguistic manual and ethnographic sketch compiled by Roger Williams, the…

A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life

British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

The guide is a museum catalogue that explains how the British Museum’s Greek and Roman Antiquities department…

Primitive Man

Louis Figuier

Louis Figuier’s Primitive Man is a nineteenth‑century survey of prehistoric archaeology, written to bring the…

Mythical Monsters

Charles Gould

The work is a scholarly survey that treats legendary beasts as subjects of natural history rather than mere…

Indian Linguistic Families of America, North of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142

John Wesley Powell

The work is a scholarly report issued by the Bureau of Ethnology in 1891, presenting the seventh annual…

Cleopatra's needle: with brief notes on Egypt and Egyptian obelisks

Sir Erasmus Wilson

Erasmus Wilson’s work is a scholarly pamphlet that serves as a concise guide to the Egyptian monument known…

Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: Their Location and the Probable Meaning of Some of Them.

Edward Manning Ruttenber

Edward Manning Ruttenber’s work is a scholarly survey of the Indian place‑names that once marked the valleys…

Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present

John Timbs

The work is a sweeping survey of English social history, arranged as a series of condensed essays that draw…

The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind

Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

The work is a nineteenth‑century treatise that seeks to map the “moral and intellectual diversity of races”…

The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The volume brings together three of Sir Richard Francis Burton’s unpublished manuscripts, each devoted to a…