Archaeology & Anthropology

The religions of ancient Egypt and Babylonia

A. H. Sayce

The work is a scholarly survey of the religious systems of ancient Egypt and Babylonia, presented as the text…

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea.

John Lort Stokes

The work is a comprehensive, multi‑volume account of the Royal Navy’s surveying voyages along the Australian…

The Inhabitants of the Philippines

Frederic H. Sawyer

Frederic H. Sawyer’s work is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic survey that sets out to counter the prevailing…

The Lhota Nagas

J. P. Mills

The work is an ethnographic monograph by James Philip Mills, written after three years as Assistant…

The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer; Vol. 4, July-Dec 1884

Various

The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer, Vol. 4 (July‑December 1884), is a scholarly periodical devoted to…

Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia and the peninsula of Sinai, in the years 1842-1845, during the mission sent out by his majesty, Frederick William IV of Prussia.

Richard Lepsius

Richard Lepsius’s work is a sprawling record of the Prussian scientific expedition of 1842‑1845, dispatched…

A thousand miles on an elephant in the Shan States

Holt S. Hallett

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that doubles as a geopolitical survey of the Siamese Shan States…

Bantu Beliefs and Magic With particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya Colony; together with some reflections on East Africa after the war

C. W. Hobley

This work is a scholarly ethnographic study by C. W. Hobley, a long‑serving provincial commissioner in…

The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; vol. 2 of 2 Being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics

J. G. Wood

The work is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic survey that sets out to catalogue the customs, illnesses and…

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter

J. Conway Walter

The work is a sprawling compendium of local knowledge about Woodhall Spa, assembled by J.

An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs

Sylvanus Griswold Morley

Sylvanus Griswold Morley’s An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs is a scholarly primer that…

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The volume is a scholarly survey of a single South Indian community, the Palli or Vanniyan caste, presented…

Pompeii, Its Life and Art

August Mau

August Mau’s Pompeii, Its Life and Art is a scholarly survey of the Campanian city, first issued in English…

Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.

James Croston

James Croston’s “Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire” is a companion volume to his earlier “Nooks and…

The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2)

William Crooke

The work is a scholarly survey of the everyday religious practices that animate the lives of peasants in…

Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1

Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that chronicles Prince Maximilian of Wied‑Neuwied’s…

Old Indian trails

Walter McClintock

Walter McClintock’s Old Indian Trails is a first‑person memoir that blends natural history, ethnography, and…

Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy.

Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific and travel narrative documenting the Austrian frigate Novara’s…

The science of fairy tales: An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology

Edwin Sidney Hartland

The Science of Fairy Tales is a scholarly investigation that seeks to apply the methods of folklore research…

The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1

The volume is a scholarly compilation that seeks to preserve “rude specimens of literature” produced by Maya…

The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest

John Fiske

John Fiske’s “The Discovery of America” is a scholarly synthesis that intertwines two expansive themes: the…

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The volume is a scholarly survey of South‑Indian castes and tribes, compiled by the early‑20th‑century…

Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization

Edward B. Tylor

Edward B. Tylor’s Anthropology presents itself as a broad‑sweeping introduction to the study of man and…

The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe

Fay-Cooper Cole

Cole’s study is a scholarly ethnography that situates the Tinguian within a broader sweep of Philippine…