History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Vermont: A Study of Independence

Rowland Evans Robinson

Rowland Evans Robinson’s Vermont: A Study of Independence is a historical survey that opens with a vivid…

Orígenes de la novela, Tomo III

Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo

Esta obra es el tercer tomo de la serie Orígenes de la novela dirigida por Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo,…

The Book of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1891

Trinity College

The volume is a commemorative history of Trinity College Dublin, produced for the tercentenary celebrations…

The sidereal messenger of Galileo Galilei: and a part of the preface to Kepler's Dioptrics containing the original account of Galileo's astronomical discoveries

Galilei, Galileo; Kepler, Johannes

The work is a nineteenth‑century translation of Galileo’s 1610 pamphlet Sidereus Nuncius together with a…

Toleration and other essays

Voltaire

This volume gathers a selection of Voltaire’s later anti‑clerical writings, framed by an introductory essay…

The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2)

Juan González de Mendoza

The work is a scholarly re‑edition of Juan González de Mendoza’s early seventeenth‑century account of China,…

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America

Edmund Burke

This volume presents Edmund Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America” together with a substantial…

Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3)

Richard Bagwell

Richard Bagwell’s Ireland under the Tudors is a scholarly narrative of sixteenth‑century Irish history,…

Historia de América desde sus tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días, tomo II

Juan Ortega Rubio

Este tomo II de Historia de América desde sus tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días de Juan Ortega Rubio es…

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.

James Anthony Froude

Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance

Francesco Petrarca

This volume assembles a selection of Petrarch’s letters to Boccaccio and other contemporaries, presented as a…

The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 1

Sir Thomas Browne

The volume gathers the principal writings of Sir Thomas Browne, the seventeenth‑century physician‑philosopher…

Travels into North America, Volume 2 (of 3)

Pehr Kalm

Pehr Kalm’s Travels into North America, Volume 2, continues the Swedish naturalist’s detailed survey of the…

Cassell's History of England, Vol. 4 (of 8) From the Fall of Marlborough to the Peninsular War

Anonymous

The Life, Times, and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester To which is added a reprint of his Century of Inventions, 1663, with a Commentary thereon.

Henry Dircks

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly memoir that seeks to assemble, for the first time, a coherent…

Old times: A picture of social life at the end of the eighteenth century

John Ashton

John Ashton’s work is a social‑history collage built from the daily newspapers of late eighteenth‑century…

Giorgione

Herbert Frederick Cook

Herbert Frederick Cook’s monograph on Giorgiri­one is a scholarly survey that opens with a candid appraisal…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 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.

The volume is a dense compilation of contemporary reports, letters, and chronicles that document the…

On the Improvement of the Understanding

Benedictus de Spinoza

This work is a philosophical treatise in which Spinoza, Benedictus de, sets out to improve the human…

The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century

Charles John Ffoulkes

Charles John Ffoulkes’s work is a scholarly reference that gathers English documentary evidence on the making…

Chantilly in History and Art

Luise Richter

The book is a scholarly survey of Chantilly’s history and its artistic treasures, written by Louise M.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S.

Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a meticulously edited record of the 17th‑century English civil servant’s daily…

This Country of Ours

H. E. Marshall

This work is a sweeping survey of American history, organized as a series of numbered “stories” that trace…

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.

David Hume

David Hume’s The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.