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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

Antonio Pigafetta

The volume is a scholarly compilation that brings together Antonio Pig Pigafetta’s late‑16th‑century…

The Byzantine Empire

Charles Oman

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey of the Byzantine Empire, written by Charles Oman and first…

The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

H. Clay Trumbull

The work is a scholarly lecture series turned into a single volume, delivered by H.

Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro

Cato, Marcus Porcius; Varro, Marcus Terentius

The volume brings together the agricultural treatises of two Roman statesmen, Cato the Elder’s De re rustica…

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1

Edward Gibbon

The work is Edward Gibbon’s monumental survey of Rome from the late Republic through the early Byzantine…

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

Faxian

The work is a scholarly edition of the 5th‑century Chinese pilgrim’s own account of his journeys through…

Menexenus

Plato

The work is a scholarly discussion of the authenticity of Plato’s shorter dialogues, focusing especially on…

Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples

Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

The book is a scholarly survey of prehistoric peoples, presented as a translated and updated French work by…

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age

W. E. Gladstone

Niebuhr's lectures on Roman history, Vol. 1 (of 3)

Barthold Georg Niebuhr

Barthold Georg Niebuhr’s “Lectures on Roman History, Vol.

The Pharaohs and Their People: Scenes of old Egyptian life and history

E. Berkley

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey of Egyptian history, arranged in a series of illustrated…

Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

Mary Mills Patrick

The work is a scholarly treatise that sets out to give English‑speaking students a concise yet thoroughly…

Sweden

Victor Alfred Nilsson

Victor Alfred Nilsson’s work is a comprehensive survey of Sweden’s geography, natural resources, and early…

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3

Edward Gibbon

The third volume of Edward Gibbon’s monumental work continues his sweeping survey of Rome’s final centuries,…

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6)

Max Duncker

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient civilizations, written by Max Duncker as the fourth volume in a…

Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia Minor

W. S. W. Vaux

The work is a scholarly survey of the ancient Greek cities and islands that once dotted the coast and…

The Categories

Aristotle

Aristotle’s Categories is a systematic treatise on the ways in which things can be spoken about and thought…

The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books

Livy

The work is Livy’s concluding portion of his monumental History of Rome, comprising Books 37 through the…

The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2

Emperor of Rome Julian

The volume presents the second half of Emperor Julian’s collected orations, speeches, and addresses, rendered…

Memorials of Old London. Volume 1 (of 2)

Memorials of Old London, Volume 1 is a scholarly compendium that seeks to portray the capital’s long‑standing…

History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12)

George Grote

George Grote’s History of Greece is a scholarly survey that begins by distinguishing the mythic “Legendary…

A Student's History of England, v. 1: B.C. 55-A.D. 1509 From the Earliest Times to the Death of King Edward VII

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Samuel Rawson Gardiner’s A Student’s History of England is a comprehensive survey that traces the development…

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races

W. E. Gladstone

The work is a scholarly treatise that sets out to defend and deepen the study of Homer’s epic poems.

Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha

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