History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Machiavelli, Volume I

Niccolò Machiavelli

The work opens with a vivid self‑portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli as a country dweller, describing a day spent…

Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide, Arranged Alphabetically

Harman, Thomas T.; Showell, Walter

Showell’s Dictionary of Birmingham is a sprawling alphabetical guide that treats the city as a series of…

Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker’s Virginia under the Stuarts is a scholarly history of Virginia’s colonial era,…

Heroes of the Middle West: The French

Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Mary Hartwell Catherwood’s Heroes of the Middle West: The French is a historical narrative that traces French…

A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull. Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.

Vermigli, Pietro Martire; Bullinger, Heinrich

This work is a polemical theological treatise, jointly attributed to Pietro Martire Vermigli and Heinrich…

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Francis Grose

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, compiled by Francis Grose, is a reference work that catalogues the…

The story of the first trans-continental railroad: Its Projectors, Construction, and History

William Francis Bailey

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical account that traces the conception, promotion, and ultimate…

Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 1 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630.

James Dennistoun

The work is a scholarly yet conversational survey of the Montefeltro and Della Rovere dynasties that ruled…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Drama" to "Dublin" Volume 8, Slice 7

Various

The entry is a scholarly overview taken from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, covering the letters…

The early English cotton industry

George W. Daniels

George W. Daniels’ work is a scholarly survey of the English cotton trade, concentrating on the period from…

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 17: Switzerland (concluded), Russia and Poland

This volume of the “Historians’ History of the World” is a scholarly compendium that treats Swiss, Russian,…

Maritime enterprise, 1485-1558

James A. Williamson

The book is a scholarly survey of English maritime activity from the accession of Henry VII in 1485 to the…

The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More

Frederic Seebohm

Frederic Seebohm’s work is a scholarly study of the intertwined careers of John Colet, Desiderius Erasmus,…

History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521

Hubert Howe Bancroft

This volume is the first part of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s sweeping five‑volume survey of Mexican history,…

Religion and the rise of capitalism: A historical study

R. H. Tawney

This work is a scholarly survey that follows the evolution of Christian thought on social and economic…

Travels to Tana and Persia: A narrative of Italian travels in Persia, in the 15th and 16th centuries

Barbaro, Giosofat; Contarini, Ambrogio

The volume is a scholarly collection of six first‑hand accounts by Italian envoys who travelled through…

King and commonwealth: A history of Charles I. and the great rebellion

Gardiner, Bertha Meriton; Phillpotts, J. Surtees

King and Commonwealth is a scholarly history of the English Civil War and its aftermath, written jointly by…

The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon

The work before you is Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning, a seventeenth‑century treatise that opens…

The nightless city; or, The "history of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku"

J. E. De Becker

Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)

J. H. Kurtz

Church History, Volume 3 is a scholarly reference that maps the development of Christianity from the early…

History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2

William Hickling Prescott

William H. Prescott’s two‑volume work is a scholarly history of Philip II, king of Spain from 1556 to 1598,…

The Planters of Colonial Virginia

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

The work is a scholarly survey of Virginia’s colonial economy, written by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker in the…

Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3)

Richard Bagwell

Richard Bagwell’s Ireland under the Tudors is a scholarly survey of Irish history from the early medieval…

Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757. Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.

Various; Royal Society

Philosophical Transactions, Vol. L, Part I (1757) is a bound collection of scientific papers presented to the…