History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The work is a historical‑political treatise that traces the life of Niccolò Machiavelli against the turbulent…

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is a foundational treatise of political science that opens with a personal…

The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

George Gillespie

The volume presents a scholarly re‑edition of the collected works of George Gillespie, a leading 17th‑century…

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke

John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government is a foundational work of political philosophy that argues against…

Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources

Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The volume presents, for the first time, a complete collection of Napoleon I’s letters to his wife Joséphine,…

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

Lucy Aikin

Lucy Aikin’s “Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth” is a detailed chronicle of the early years of…

The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes

King of England Henry VIII

This volume presents the surviving love‑letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, compiled from early print…

Essays on the Latin Orient

William Miller

This volume is a scholarly collection of articles and monographs that trace the history of Greece and the…

The Governments of Europe

Frederic Austin Ogg

Frederic Austin Ogg’s The Governments of Europe offers a scholarly survey of political structures, beginning…

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is a systematic treatise on how…

Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration

Joseph Quincy Adams

Shakespearean Playhouses is a scholarly survey of London’s early modern theatres, tracing their origins from…

Royal Palaces and Parks of France

M. F. Mansfield

Royal Palaces and Parks of France is a guide‑book‑style survey that blends travel narrative with…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi

Giorgio Vasari

The volume is the first of Giorgio Vasari’s ten‑part “Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and…

The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)

Emperor of Hindustan Babur

The Bābur‑nāma is the autobiographical memoir of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, written in the…

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist is a seventeenth‑century scientific tract that reads more like a series…

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497

Julia Cartwright

The work is a scholarly biography of Beatrice d’Este, Duchess of Milan, set against the intricate web of…

The Book of the Courtier

Baldassarre Castiglione

The Book of the Courtier is a Renaissance dialogue that records a series of conversations held in the palace…

The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765

J. E. Heeres

The work is a scholarly compilation that gathers and annotates primary documents relating to Dutch…

The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 2

E. K. Chambers

The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 2 is a scholarly reference work that catalogues every theatrical company that…

History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660

John Richard Green

History of the English People, Volume V, Puritan England, 1603‑1660, by John Richard Green, is a scholarly…

France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s third volume in the “France and England in North America” series offers a detailed…

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli’s History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is a dense political chronicle that…

Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)

Elizabeth W. Champney

The work is a richly illustrated survey of the great Renaissance villas that once served as the sumptuous…

Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 1 of 2)

Alfred von Reumont

Alfred von Reumont’s work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly biography of Lorenzo de’ Medici, the…