History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

The Mystery of Mary Stuart

Andrew Lang

The work is a scholarly investigation into the long‑standing controversy surrounding Mary, Queen of Scots,…

History of the Conquest of Mexico; Vol. 2/4

William Hickling Prescott

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Samuel Rawson Gardiner’s work is a scholarly survey of the Thirty Years’ War, presented as part of the…

玉壺淸話

active 11th century Wenying

Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676

Lord John Lauder Fountainhall

The volume presents the edited journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, a Scottish judge who kept…

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell

David Hume

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

The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors

Bence Jones

The work is a scholarly biography that traces the origins and early development of the Royal Institution of…

The History of Cuba, vol. 1

Willis Fletcher Johnson

Willis Fletcher Johnson’s first volume presents a sweeping survey of Cuba’s past, beginning with a…

天工開物

Yingxing Song

Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. 2 (of 2)

John Fiske

Notes on witchcraft

George Lyman Kittredge

George Lyman Kittredge’s Notes on Witchcraft is a scholarly essay that opens with a reflective meditation on…

What Gunpowder Plot Was

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Samuel Rawson Gardiner’s work is a scholarly rebuttal that engages directly with the arguments of Father John…

The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts.

Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

The work is a scholarly history of the Moluccan and Philippine archipelagos, written by the learned cleric…

The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West

Anderson, Robert E. (Robert Edward), M.A., F.A.S.

The work is a scholarly survey of how ancient and medieval peoples imagined a western continent that lay…

The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624

Wesley Frank Craven

The work is a scholarly narrative of the Virginia Company of London, covering the brief but consequential…

King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855

E. Keble Chatterton

The work is a meticulously researched historical study of British smuggling and the Royal Customs’ “King’s…

The century of Columbus

James J. Walsh

James J. Walsh’s The Century of Columbus is a sweeping survey of the Renaissance, framed as a “general…

James VI and the Gowrie Mystery

Andrew Lang

The work is a scholarly investigation of the Gowrie Conspiracy of 1600, written by Andrew Lang and presented…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 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 early Spanish sources that trace the Philippines from the first…

Handbuch der Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst. Erster Teil Erfindung. Verbreitung. Blüte. Verfall. 1450-1750.

Carl Berendt Lorck

Das Werk ist ein umfassendes Handbuch zur Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst von ihrer Erfindung im mittleren…

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

Juan González de Mendoza

The work is a sprawling seventeenth‑century chronicle that blends missionary report, diplomatic observation,…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13

The volume presents a sweeping survey of eighteenth‑century world history, beginning with a vivid description…

A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges

John Lord

John Lord’s “A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon” is a concise survey of…

Women of Modern France

Hugo P. Thieme

The work is a scholarly survey of French women’s influence from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century,…