Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference

Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources

F. Edward Hulme

Proverb Lore is a scholarly survey of the world’s sayings, compiled by the antiquarian F. Edward Hulme.

The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

William James Harris

The work is a scholarly bibliography that sets out, in alphabetical order, the first English translations of…

Familiar Quotations

This volume is a compendium of familiar quotations drawn from a wide range of sources, beginning with an…

The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers (12th edition)

George P. Upton

The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers is a handbook that surveys the operas most…

The wonders of the world: A Complete Museum, Descriptive and Pictorial, of the Wonderful Phenomena and Results of Nature, Science and Art

John Loraine Abbott

The work is a nineteenth‑century compendium that sets out to catalogue the myriad “wonders” of nature,…

The 2007 CIA World Factbook

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The 2007 CIA World Factbook is a comprehensive reference work compiled by the United States Central…

How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General Index

Serviss, Garrett Putman; Selwyn-Brown, Arthur

The work is the concluding volume of the Popular Science Library, a sixteen‑part series that gathers the most…

Dictionary of Battles From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

Thomas Benfield Harbottle

The Dictionary of Battles is a reference work that catalogues engagements from antiquity to the early…

Motion pictures and filmstrips, 1972: Catalog of copyright entries, third series, volume 26, parts 12-13

Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The volume you hold is a bureaucratic record rather than a narrative, cataloguing every motion‑picture and…

A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age

Thatcher, Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph); McNeal, Edgar Holmes

This volume is a curated collection of translated primary documents meant to support the teaching of medieval…

Moby Part of Speech List

Grady Ward

The book is a reference work that catalogs English words and phrases together with their part‑of‑speech…

A collection of Latin maxims & rules, in law and equity: selected from the most eminent authors, on the civil, canon, feudal, English and Scots law, with an English translation, and an appendix of reference to the authorities from which the maxims are selected

Peter Halkerston

Peter Halkerston’s work is a systematic compilation of legal maxims drawn from the most eminent authorities…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Jack London

Jack London

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

The work is a scholarly reference rather than a narrative, presenting a catalogue of characters drawn from…

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992

The Jargon File, version 2.9.10 (dated 01 Jul 1992), is a self‑described “collection of slang terms used by…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

The work is a systematic catalogue of John Stuart Mill’s extensive writings on logic, scientific method, and…

Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes

Ludwig von Doederlein

Döderlein’s Hand‑book of Latin Synonymes is a compact reference drawn from Ludwig von Döderlein’s extensive…

Austral English: A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

Edward Ellis Morris

The work is a scholarly dictionary that gathers the distinctive words, phrases and usages that have entered…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Andros, Sir Edmund" to "Anise" Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

Various

The eleventh‑edition Encyclopaedia Britannica is a multi‑volume reference work that presents concise,…

Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bd.1, Mitteldeutschland, 1914

Georg Dehio

Das vorliegende Werk ist ein systematisches Handbuch zur Erfassung und Beschreibung der Kunstdenkmäler…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Joints" to "Justinian I." Volume 15, Slice 5

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition presents a scholarly survey of anatomy, beginning its “Joints” entry…

History for ready reference, Volume 6: Recent history - 1894-5 to 1901 A-Z

J. N. Larned

History for Ready Reference, Volume 6 presents a sweeping, alphabetically arranged compendium of the events…

A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia

J. G. Bartholomew

A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia is a reference work that combines cartographic detail with concise…

U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June

Library of Congress. Copyright Office

This volume is a comprehensive catalog of works whose U.S.