History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

The Mayflower Compact

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam

Ephraim Emerton

The work is a scholarly biography of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, written by Ephraim Emerton and…

History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3

Henry Thomas Buckle

History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12)

A. S. Rappoport

The work is a scholarly survey of Egyptian history from the late Hellenistic period through the medieval era,…

Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals

Alfred Marks

Alfred Marks’s Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals is a scholarly survey of England’s most infamous execution…

The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

The volume is a scholarly edition of the letters and biographical material of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, the…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 46, 1721-1739 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This volume is a scholarly compilation of historical documents covering the Philippines from 1721 to 1739,…

Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860

Henri Mouhot

This volume is a posthumous compilation of Henri Mouhot’s private letters, journal entries, and assorted…

English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 3: Queen Anne and the Georges

Donald Grant Mitchell

The volume is a scholarly survey of English literary and intellectual life during the reigns of Queen Anne…

The Life of Cervantes

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s The Life of Cervantes is a scholarly biography that opens with a sweeping tribute…

Privateers and Privateering

Edward Phillips Statham

English Travellers of the Renaissance

Clare Howard

Clare Howard’s English Travellers of the Renaissance is a scholarly essay that surveys the instructional…

A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River

Barlow Cumberland

This work is a detailed historical account of riverine transport on the Niagara River, concentrating on the…

A Cruising Voyage Around the World

Woodes Rogers

The work is a first‑person account of Captain Woodes Rogers’s 1708‑11 privateering cruise, presented as a…

The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596)

Gerrit de Veer

This work is a historical narrative that recounts the third Dutch expedition to the Arctic, focusing on the…

The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

George Cavendish

The work is a biographical narrative of Thomas Wolsey, the great cardinal and chief minister of Henry VIII,…

A History of Science — Volume 2

Williams, Henry Smith; Williams, Edward Huntington

This work is a scholarly survey of scientific development from the waning of the Roman world in the fifth…

A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217 to 1688

David Hannay

David Hannay’s work is a concise, scholarly survey of the Royal Navy from its embryonic stage under King John…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 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 meticulously compiled collection of ecclesiastical reports, official correspondence, and…

The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America

Thomas Jefferson

This work is the original proclamation of the United States of America, authored chiefly by Thomas Jefferson…

History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1

James MacCaffrey

James MacCaffrey’s work is a scholarly survey of the Catholic Church’s trajectory from the Renaissance…

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.

Robert Kerr

The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth. Volume 08 of 11.

Lingard, John; Belloc, Hilaire

The work is a comprehensive, chronologically arranged history of England that picks up the narrative where…

The Autobiography of Phineas Pett

Phineas Pett

The work is an autobiographical manuscript of Phineas Pett, a senior ship‑wright and naval commissioner who…