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The 2003 CIA World Factbook

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The 2003 CIA World Factbook is a government‑produced reference work that compiles concise statistical and…

The 2006 CIA World Factbook

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The 2006 CIA World Factbook is a comprehensive reference compendium produced by the United States Central…

Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q

Frederic Boase

Modern English Biography, Volume 2 (I‑Q) is a reference work compiled by Frederic Boase that gathers concise,…

Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary

Louis A. Flemming

Putnam’s Word Book is a systematic reference work that lists English words alphabetically, pairing each entry…

Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H

Frederic Boase

Frederic Boase’s Modern English Biography, volume 1 (A‑H) is a reference work rather than a narrative…

Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words

Grady Ward

Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words is a reference work compiled by Grady Ward that presents…

The field and garden vegetables of America: Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varieties; With Directions for Propagation, Culture, and Use.

Fearing Burr

The work is a comprehensive reference on American field and garden vegetables, cataloguing nearly eleven…

Woordenlijst voor de spelling der Nederlandsche Taal Met aanwijzing van de geslachten der naamwoorden en de vervoeging der werkwoorden

Vries, M. de (Matthias); Winkel, L. A. te

Dit werk is een systematische woordenlijst die de spelling, geslachten van zelfstandige naamwoorden en…

The Roll of Honour, Volume 1: A biographical record of all members of His Majesty's naval and military forces who have fallen in the war

Ruvigny et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue, marquis de

The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 is a solemn register of every British officer, non‑commissioned officer and…

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)

Chambers’s Twentieth‑Century Dictionary opens with a rapid succession of entries, beginning at “Agrestic” and…

Vollständiges Orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache: mit etymologischen Angaben, kurzen Sacherklärungen und Verdeutschungen der Fremdwörter

Konrad Duden

Dieses Werk ist ein umfassendes orthographisches Nachschlagewerk, das neben den amtlichen Rechtschreibregeln…

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol.

Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

Peter Mark Roget

Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases is a reference work that catalogues synonyms, antonyms, and…

A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580

Mayhew, A. L. (Anthony Lawson); Skeat, Walter W.

The work is a compact reference for Middle‑English, compiled by A. L.

The Nuttall encyclopædia: Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge

P. Austin Nuttall

The Nuttall encyclopædia, compiled by P. Austin Nuttall, is a reference work that aims to be both concise and…

Roget's Thesaurus

Peter Mark Roget

Roget’s Thesaurus is a systematic reference work that catalogues English words by concept rather than…

Novo dicionário da língua portuguesa

Cândido de Figueiredo

O Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, de Cândido de Figueiredo, apresenta‑se como uma obra lexicográfica…

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2, is a pre‑Linnaean geographic and ethnographic survey that begins with…

The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

W. H. Smyth

The Sailor’s Word‑Book is a nineteenth‑century reference that gathers, in alphabetical order, the myriad…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1

Various

The work is a segment of the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a nineteenth‑century reference…

The Elements of Style

William Strunk

The work is a concise manual on English composition, presented as a series of numbered rules that address the…

Enquire within upon everything The great Victorian-era domestic standby

Robert Kemp Philp

Enquire Within Upon Everything is a Victorian‑era handbook of wordplay, presenting a sprawling collection of…

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1, is a scholarly translation of the Roman encyclopaedist’s monumental…

A Complete Guide to Heraldry

Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Arthur Charles Fox‑Davis’s A Complete Guide to Heraldry is a scholarly reference that opens with a series of…