History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings

Giorgio Vasari

The life of Poggio Bracciolini

William Shepherd

The work is a scholarly biography of Poggio Bracciolini, the fifteenth‑century Italian humanist whose efforts…

A voyage to the South Sea: Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies

William Bligh

The work is a first‑person account of a Royal Navy expedition commissioned by King George III to transport…

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 13 America, Part II

Richard Hakluyt

The volume is a 17th‑century compilation of English voyages, and this section begins with a transcription…

Old Taverns of New York

W. Harrison Bayles

Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784

W. O. Raymond

This work is a scholarly chronicle of the Saint John River region from its first European sighting in 1604…

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3 (of 8) English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689

Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

The volume gathers the sermons of Jonathan Edwards, the eighteenth‑century Congregational minister whose life…

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 1 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy

Edward Luther Stevenson

Edward Luther Stevenson’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, Volume I is a scholarly survey of the development…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

The volume gathers a series of contemporary letters, reports, and maps that document the first decade of…

A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria

Joseph Grego

This work is a detailed historical survey of British parliamentary elections from the Stuart era to the reign…

History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6)

Heinrich Graetz

The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

P. L. Jacob

The work is a scholarly survey of visual culture from the fourth through the sixteenth centuries, presented…

Andreas Vesalius, the Reformer of Anatomy

James Moores Ball

The work is a scholarly biography of Andreas Vesalius, the sixteenth‑century anatomist hailed as “the Luther…

Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, Taken from Original Sources

John Ashton

John Ashton’s work is a meticulously compiled social history of Britain under Queen Anne, drawn entirely from…

History of English Literature Volume 2 (of 3)

Hippolyte Taine

This volume is a scholarly survey of English literary development, written by the French critic Hippolyte…

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

John William Draper

John William Draper’s History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science is a sweeping, argumentative study…

English Painters, with a Chapter on American Painters

Wilmot-Buxton, H. J. (Harry John); Koehler, S. R.

This work is a scholarly survey of English painting, supplemented by a concise chapter on American artists.

The history of the harlequinade, volume 1 (of 2)

Maurice Sand

Maurice Sand’s The History of the Harlequinade is a scholarly survey that traces the evolution of comic…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a volume of critical and historical essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, assembled with a…

Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535

Roger Bigelow Merriman

This volume is a scholarly attempt to portray Thomas Cromwell as a statesman whose actions were driven by…

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.

Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys’s diary is a first‑person chronicle of a London civil servant’s daily life in the early…

Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X.

Martin Luther

The work is a polemical treatise by Martin Luther, written in the early sixteenth‑century German Reformation…

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)

James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude’s three‑volume Reign of Henry the Eighth is a scholarly narrative that situates the…