History - Ancient

The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs.

W. G. Wood-Martin

The work is a scholarly survey of Ireland’s ancient lake‑dwelling sites, known as crannogs, compiled by…

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 Book of the Dead

Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge

The work is a scholarly survey of the ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead,” a loose collection of spells,…

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4)

Plutarch

Plutarch’s fourth volume of Lives presents a series of biographical sketches that intertwine moral reflection…

This Country of Ours

H. E. Marshall

This work is a sweeping survey of American history, organized as a series of numbered “stories” that trace…

Illustrated history of ancient literature, oriental and classical

John D. Quackenbos

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient literature, presented as a single, compact textbook.

Jewellery

H. Clifford Smith

Harold Clifford Smith’s Jewellery is a scholarly survey of ornamental metalwork that begins with a meticulous…

Great Astronomers

Robert S. Ball

Great Astronomers is a scholarly survey of the men who shaped the science of the heavens, written by Robert…

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

George Rawlinson

The volume is a scholarly survey of the ancient Assyrian empire, positioned as the second installment in…

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.

Robert F. Pennell

Robert F. Pennell’s Ancient Rome offers a sweeping geographic and ethnographic survey of the Italian…

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson

Kerr, Robert; Stevenson, William

This work is a scholarly survey that combines a historical narrative of global discovery with an accompanying…

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…

夢溪筆談, Volume 01-26

Kuo Shen

Egyptian Art: Studies

G. Maspero

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

Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae (Complete)

Jennie Hall

This volume is a hybrid of travelogue, illustrated guide, and narrative adventure, assembled by Jennie Hall…

The Myths of Mexico & Peru

Lewis Spence

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

History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 8 (of 12)

G. Maspero

The volume is a scholarly survey of the ancient Near East, concentrating on the political and military…

Dio's Rome, Volume 1 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form

Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals

E. Norman Gardiner

E. Norman Gardiner’s Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals is a scholarly survey that treats the history of…

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

Max Duncker

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6, by Max Duncker is a scholarly survey of the late‑Iron‑Age Near East,…

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…

History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 2 of 2

Emperor of the French Napoleon III

The work is a scholarly continuation of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars, presented as Volume II of a two‑part…

Primitive Man

Louis Figuier

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

Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

Frank B. Goodrich