History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499

This volume presents the original journal of Vasco da Gama’s first voyage to India, 1497‑1499, together with…

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 2 (of 8) Spanish Explorations and Settlements in America from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century

Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609

Bernard Beckerman

Bernard Beckerman’s scholarly work is a detailed study of the Globe playhouse during its most vibrant decade,…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 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

Antonio Pigafetta

This volume is a scholarly compilation of primary documents that chart the early European encounter with the…

A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2)

Thomas M. Lindsay

Thomas M. Lindsay’s two‑volume History of the Reformation is a scholarly survey that draws exclusively on…

History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3

J. H. Merle d'Aubigné

The work is a scholarly history of the sixteenth‑century Reformation written by the French‑Swiss historian…

Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 1 (of 2)

Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers presents a wide‑ranging survey of Scotland’s “domestic annals” from the Reformation onward,…

Colonial Records of Virginia

Various

The volume is a compiled set of colonial‑era documents concerning Virginia’s early history, drawn from copies…

The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530

Philipp Melanchthon

The Augsburg Confession, authored by Philipp Melanchthon, is a systematic statement of Lutheran doctrine…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847

Various

The volume is a scholarly periodical from the April 1847 issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, devoted to…

The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II

James Westfall Thompson

James Westfall Thompson’s work is a scholarly survey of the French Wars of Religion from 1559 to 1576,…

Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues

John Parkinson

John Parkinson’s work is a comprehensive early‑modern manual that sets out, in three parts, a “garden of all…

Narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Abyssinia during the years 1520-1527

Francisco Alvares

This work is a detailed account of the Portuguese diplomatic mission to Abyssinia between 1520 and 1527,…

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The work is a political treatise that sets out, in a systematic fashion, the various forms of government and…

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

Annie Lash Jester

An extensive historical study, Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century presents a detailed…

History of Central America, Volume 2, 1530-1800 The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 7

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Records of the Kirk of Scotland containing the Acts and Proceedings of the General Assemblies from 1638 downwards, as authenticated by the clerks of assembly.

Church of Scotland. General Assembly

The work is a meticulously compiled record of the Church of Scotland’s General Assemblies, beginning with a…

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 09: Italy

The ninth volume of The Historians’ History of the World presents a sweeping survey of Italian history,…

The Library of William Congreve

William Congreve

The work before you is a scholarly edition of the private catalogue compiled by the dramatist William…

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

The volume is a scholarly compilation assembled under the auspices of the American Historical Association in…

Brief Lives, Vol. 1

John Aubrey

The work is a scholarly anthology of brief biographies compiled by the 17th‑century antiquarian John Aubrey,…

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II

Gomes Eannes de Zurara

The work is a scholarly edition of the second volume of Gomes Eannes de Zurara’s Chronicle of Guinea, the…

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1

John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds presents his “Renaissance in Italy” as an analytical inquiry rather than a…

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 5 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 2

John Addington Symonds

The volume is a scholarly survey of Italian literature from the medieval period through the Renaissance,…