History - Ancient

The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Alfred William Benn

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 5 (of 6)

Max Duncker

The work is a scholarly survey of the Iranian plateau and its surrounding regions, presented as the fifth…

History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12)

George Grote

The volume is the eighth in George Grote’s twelve‑part History of Greece, a scholarly chronicle that traces…

Shipbuilding from its beginnings. Vol. 1 (of 3)

E. van Konijnenburg

This work is a scholarly survey of the origins and evolution of shipbuilding, written by Emile van…

The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882

Désiré Charnay

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue and scholarly treatise by French explorer Désiré Charnay, written…

北夢瑣言

Guangxian Sun

The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus

John Stuart Hay

The work is a scholarly attempt to rescue the reputation of the short‑lived Roman ruler known as Elagabalus,…

The lost Atlantis, and other ethnographic studies

Sir Daniel Wilson

The work is a scholarly miscellany assembled by Daniel Wilson Sir after his death in 1892, presented as his…

Hadrian's Wall

Jessie Mothersole

The work is a detailed antiquarian account of Hadrian’s Wall, written by Jessie Mothersole and anchored in…

Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

John Stewart Milne

The work is a scholarly monograph that sets out to catalogue every surgical implement known to ancient Greek…

History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12)

G. Maspero

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient Near Eastern history, written by the French Egyptologist Gaston…

The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1

Theodor Mommsen

The work is a scholarly survey of the Roman Empire’s provincial system from Caesar’s conquest to Diocletian’s…

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

Robert Kerr

Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of Augustus

Emperor of Rome Augustus

The work is a scholarly edition of the Monumentum Ancyranum, the famed inscription that records Augustus’s…

The World's Progress, Vol. 01 (of 10) With Illustrative texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature

Delphian Society

The World’s Progress, Vol. 01 is a sweeping survey of human civilization that begins with a description of a…

A History of Science — Volume 2

Williams, Henry Smith; Williams, Edward Huntington

This work is a scholarly survey of scientific development from the waning of the Roman world in the fifth…

The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition

W. Y. Sellar

The Roman Poets of the Republic, second edition, is a scholarly survey of Latin verse from the earliest Roman…

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)

G. Maspero

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, written by the…

Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2)

John Addington Symonds

This work is a scholarly survey of Greek poetry, assembled by John Addington Symonds from two earlier English…

An Introduction to the History of Science

Walter Libby

Walter Libby’s An Introduction to the History of Science is a concise survey that seeks to show how…

Philo-Judæus of Alexandria

Norman Bentwich

Norman Bentwich’s work is a scholarly study that seeks to restore Philo‑Judæus to his rightful place within…

History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12)

G. Maspero

The volume is a scholarly survey of the later Assyrian and Babylonian periods, written by the French…

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)

Shearjashub Spooner

The work is a sweeping compendium of historical anecdotes that links the great artists of the Western world…

The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth. Volume 08 of 11.

Lingard, John; Belloc, Hilaire

The work is a comprehensive, chronologically arranged history of England that picks up the narrative where…