History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees

Mary Caroline Crawford

The work is a collection of concise, illustrated sketches that aim to supply a readable compendium of the…

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)

Jean Calvin

This work is the second volume of Jean Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, a systematic…

Economisti del cinque e seicento

Montanari, Geminiano; Scaruffi, Gasparo; Serra, Antonio, active 1613

Il volume è un trattato tecnico‑economico del primo Seicento, scritto da Geminiano Montanari, Gasparo…

Raleigh

Edmund Gosse

The work is a scholarly biography of Sir Walter Raleigh that situates his life apart from the broader…

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) The Catholic Reaction

John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds’s final two volumes of Renaissance in Italy turn from the political narrative of the…

Henry VIII.

A. F. Pollard

The work is a scholarly attempt to give a concise yet comprehensive portrait of Henry VIII, the Tudor monarch…

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots

John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds’s Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1: The Age of the Despots is a scholarly survey that…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay’s fourth volume of The History of England continues his sweeping chronicle of the…

The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler

David Brewster

David Brewster’s work is a nineteenth‑century biographical study that groups together the lives of three…

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

Edward Potts Cheyney

This work is a scholarly textbook designed for college and secondary‑school courses, presenting a systematic…

The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic.

Nicholas Culpeper

The Complete Herbal is a seventeenth‑century compendium that sets out the virtues of England’s common herbs,…

The Dance of Death

Corrozet, Gilles; Vauzelles, Jean de

The work is a richly illustrated early‑modern treatise on the “Dance of Death,” first issued in Lyon in 1538…

Early Theories of Translation

Flora Ross Amos

Flora Ross Amos’s Early Theories of Translation is a scholarly survey that maps the evolution of English…

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)

Jean Calvin

The work is a nineteenth‑century English edition of Jean Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, the…

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

Mary Francis Cusack

An illustrated history of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800, authored by Mary Francis Cusack, presents a sweeping…

Daemonologie.

King of England James I

James I’s Daemonologie is a polemical treatise that sets out, in three structured books, a systematic…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macauley’s second volume of The History of England, from the Accession of James II is a…

A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy

George Saintsbury

George Saint‑Sburry’s second volume of A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe is a scholarly…

Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.

Doctrina Christiana is a bilingual catechetical handbook printed in Manila in 1593, making it the first book…

Lives of the early Medici: As told in their correspondence

The volume presents a meticulously edited collection of private letters written by the early Medici, Cosimo,…

Origins of the 'Forty-five: And Other Papers Relating to That Rising

This volume is a scholarly compilation of primary documents and contemporary narratives surrounding the…

The Superstitions of Witchcraft

Howard Williams

Howard Williams’s work is a scholarly survey of witch‑craft as a product of superstition, opening with a…

De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556

Georg Agricola

The work is a scholarly translation of Georg Agricola’s 1556 treatise on mining, metallurgy and mineralogy,…

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 11: France, 843-1715

The work is a scholarly survey of French history from the collapse of Carolingian authority in 843 to the…