History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790

Archibald Henderson

The work is a sweeping historical narrative that treats the eighteenth‑century migration into Virginia, the…

Gli eretici d'Italia, vol. II

Cesare Cantù

Il volume è un trattato storico‑teologico che indaga le eresie cristiane in Italia, con particolare…

Witch Stories

E. Lynn Linton

The work is a nineteenth‑century compilation of Scottish witch narratives assembled by E.

Florentine villas

Janet Ross

The work is a scholarly travel‑guide to the villas that crown the hills around Florence, a subject the author…

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World

Various

The first volume of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1666) is a collective report of…

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day

Ferdinand Gregorovius

This volume is a scholarly reconstruction of Lucrezia Borgia’s life drawn from the very documents and letters…

Orlando Furioso

Lodovico Ariosto

Il poema è un poema cavalleresco del Rinascimento, incentrato sui conflitti amorosi e militari tra i paladini…

The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton with Introductory Matter and Notes

Thomas Morton

The New English Canaan is a 19th‑century scholarly edition of Thomas Morton’s 17th‑century narrative of early…

The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West

W. H. Hamilton Rogers

The work is a Victorian‑era historical survey that weaves together a vivid description of a bustling railway…

Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle’s 1664 work is a modestly sized treatise that sets out to record a series of colour experiments…

Airopaidia: Containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage; hints on the improvement of balloons ... To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain; with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aërial navigation.

Thomas Baldwin

The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century

Charles Bastide

Charles Bastide’s work is a scholarly comparative‑literature study that examines the tangled cultural and…

Early Carriages and Roads

Sir Walter Gilbey

The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People

Edward Eggleston

Edward Eggleston’s The Beginners of a Nation is a scholarly survey of the English colonizing effort from the…

Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603

John Manningham

The work is a scholarly edition of a seventeenth‑century diary kept by John Manningham, a barrister of the…

Queens of the French Stage

H. Noel Williams

The work is a scholarly biography of the French actresses of the seventeenth‑century stage, focusing on the…

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs

E. Hamilton Currey

Sea‑Wolves of the Mediterranean is a historical study that chronicles the rise and deeds of the Muslim…

Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543. The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. The Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando De Soto by the Gentleman of Elvas

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century; Castañeda de Nájera, Pedro de, active 16th century; Knight of Elvas

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened

Kenelm Digby

The work is a seventeenth‑century compilation of recipes and domestic advice that bears the name of Sir…

History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 2 (of 4)

W. S. Lindsay

The work is a sprawling historical survey of English merchant shipping and its commercial context from the…

The place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe

Lynn Thorndike

The work is a scholarly essay that traces how belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology permeated European…

History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times

Gustavus Myers

Gustavus Myers’ History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol.

History of the Conquest of Mexico; Vol. 1/4

William Hickling Prescott

William Hickling Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico is a nineteenth‑century scholarly narrative…

The Invention of Printing. A Collection of Facts and Opinions, Descriptive of Early Prints and Playing Cards, the Block-Books of the Fifteenth Century, the Legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, and the Work of John Gutenberg and His Associates

Theodore Low De Vinne

The work is a scholarly survey of early printing, assembled by Theodore Low De Vinne and published in 1876.