History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

The General Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles (Vol. I) Together with the True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar

John Smith

The work is a sprawling seventeenth‑century chronicle that blends a history of Virginia, New England and the…

The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River Missisippi

Le Page du Pratz

Le Page du Pratz’s work is a sprawling eighteenth‑century chronicle that blends personal memoir with natural…

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 Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760

Myra Reynolds

Myra Reynolds’s scholarly work surveys the status and accomplishments of learned women in England from the…

A Student's History of England, v. 2: 1509-1689 From the Earliest Times to the Death of King Edward VII

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

The Cotton Kingdom, volume 2 (of 2): A traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American Slave States

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted’s second volume of The Cotton Kingdom is a travelogue that doubles as a socioeconomic…

Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3

Henry Hallam

This three‑volume work, Constitutional History of England, by the 19th‑century historian Henry Hallam, is a…

The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter, Being a Proof, with Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together with Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes

Henry Spink

The work is a scholarly treatise by Henry Hawkes Spink, a junior solicitor, that sets out to prove, with what…

Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760

William H. Atherton

A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth; Mourt's Relation: A Relation or Journal of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth in New England, by Certain English adventurers both merchants and others

This volume is a facsimile of Mourt’s Relation, the earliest published account of the Plymouth settlement,…

A Short History of Italy (476-1900)

Henry Dwight Sedgwick

Henry Dwight Sedgwick’s A Short History of Italy is a concise, outline‑style survey that spans from the…

The Discovery of Guiana

Walter Raleigh

The work is a first‑person account of Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1595 expedition to the “large, rich and beautiful…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700 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

This volume continues the Dominican Order’s chronicle of its missionary activity in the Philippines, drawing…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6

François Guizot

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II

Richard Hakluyt

The volume is a segment of Richard Hakluyt’s monumental compilation of English seafaring narratives, the…

Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 2

George Daniel

Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 2 is a sprawling anthology of early‑modern English folklore, ballads,…

The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career

Vespucci, Amerigo; Casas, Bartolomé de las; Columbus, Christopher

The volume is a scholarly collection that brings together the surviving letters of Amerigo Vespucci, the…

Brief Lives, Vol. 2

John Aubrey

Brief Lives, Vol. 2 is a collection of biographical sketches assembled by the 17th‑century antiquary John…

A narrative of travels in northern Africa in the years 1818, 19, and 20; accompanied by geographical notices of Soudan and of the course of the Niger

G. F. Lyon

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that records a British naval officer’s expedition across the…

The Lyon in Mourning, Vol. 1 or a collection of speeches, letters, journals, etc. relative to the affairs of Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Robert Forbes

Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries

John Timbs

John Timbs’s two‑volume work is a meticulously compiled survey of London’s club, coffee‑house and tavern…

Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Thomas J. Wertenbaker’s Give Me Liberty is a scholarly narrative that traces Virginia’s political evolution…

The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763

Reginald W. Jeffery

The work is a compact scholarly survey of the political development of the Thirteen English colonies from the…

A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217-1815. Volume II, 1689-1815

David Hannay

David Hannay’s A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217‑1815, Volume II, covering 1689‑1815, offers a concise,…