History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding period

M. Oppenheim

Michael Oppenheim’s work is a scholarly survey of the civil machinery that underpinned the Royal Navy and its…

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete

Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

The work is a sprawling memoir that blends personal grief with courtly reportage.

The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics

Alexander F. Mitchell

The work is a scholarly collection of lectures on the Scottish Reformation, assembled after the death of its…

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume

David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding begins with a sweeping comparison of two kinds of…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi

Giorgio Vasari

Dante and the early astronomers

M. A. Orr

Dante and the Early Astronomers is a scholarly study that intertwines the history of ancient and medieval…

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2)

Charles Morris

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality, Volume 02, is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that frames…

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.

Mrs. A. T. Thomson

The work is a two‑volume collective biography of the Jacobite participants in the uprisings of 1715 and 1745,…

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents

This volume is a scholarly compilation of primary sources that illuminate the intertwined worlds of…

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

René Descartes

René Descartes’s Discourse on the Method is a philosophical memoir in which the author sets out, from the…

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

Jasper Danckaerts

The volume presents the 1679‑1680 journal of Jasper Danckaerts, a Dutch‑born Labadist envoy, together with…

Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 A study of the evolution of the northwestern frontier, together with a history of Fort Dearborn

Milo Milton Quaife

Milo Milton Quaife’s work is a scholarly history of Chicago’s earliest years, tracing the region’s…

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

A. T. Mahan

The work is a scholarly survey that sets out to demonstrate how control of the seas shaped the political and…

Soldan's Geschichte der Hexenprozesse. Zweiter Band

Wilhelm Gottlieb Soldan

Der zweite Band von Wilhelm Gottlieb Soldans „Geschichte der Hexenprozesse“ ist ein historisch‑juristisches…

Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 1

Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme

This volume presents Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbé de Brantôme’s Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies, rendered into…

Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay

Immanuel Kant

Perpetual Peace is Immanuel Kant’s philosophical essay, first published in 1795 and presented here in a…

The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Jacob Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy is a scholarly survey that treats the Italian…

Histoire de France 1724-1759 (Volume 18/19)

Jules Michelet

Ce volume, tiré de la série « Histoire de France » de Jules Michelet, couvre la période 1724‑1759, soit la…

Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England

Frederic William Maitland

Frederic William Maitland’s work is a scholarly collection of three essays that trace the development of…

Der Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit.

Iwan Bloch

Der vorliegende Band ist eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Monographie über den Marquis de Sade und das 18.

A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague

Charles Creighton

Charles Creighton’s A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 covers the span from A.D.

The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley Rector of Epworth and father of the Revs. John and Charles Wesley, the founders of the Methodists

L. Tyerman

Luke Tyerman’s work is a scholarly biography of Samuel Wesley, the 17th‑century rector of Epworth and father…

State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 1 (of 2)

The work is a curated anthology of historic British state trials, assembled by H. L.

History of the English People, Volume IV

John Richard Green

History of the English People, Volume IV is a scholarly survey that traces the tumultuous transformations of…