History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630.

James Dennistoun

History of the United States of America, Volume 1 (of 9): During the first administration of Thomas Jefferson

Henry Adams

This volume, the first of Henry Adams’s nine‑part survey of the United States, concentrates on the…

Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

Maud Stepney Rawson

The work is a biographical study of Elizabeth Hardwick, better known as Bess of Hardwick, placed firmly…

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8) French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 5 (of 8) The English and French in North America 1689-1763

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s A Popular History of Ireland is a sweeping nineteenth‑century survey that traces Irish…

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them.

Bartolomé de las Casas

This work is a polemical chronicle written by Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican‑turned‑bishop who witnessed…

The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting

Edward, of Norwich; Gaston III Phoebus, count of Foix

Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida

Washington Irving

The work is a sprawling chronicle of the final phase of the Spanish conquest of Granada, assembled from the…

Marie Antoinette

Hilaire Belloc

The book is a scholarly biography that treats Marie Antoinette not as a collection of anecdotes but as a…

A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 1 (of 6)

Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke’s work is a scholarly survey of English history with a special focus on the seventeenth…

History of Central America, Volume 1, 1501-1530 The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 6

Hubert Howe Bancroft

History of Central America, Volume 1, 1501‑1530 is the first part of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s expansive…

The Smalcald Articles

Martin Luther

The Smalcald Articles is a polemical theological treatise by Martin Luther, composed in the early…

The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants

Thomas Longueville

Thomas Longueville’s work is a biographical study that intertwines the life of Sir Everard Digby with the…

The reformation in Poland: Some social and economic aspects

Paul Fox

Paul Fox’s study, The Reformation in Poland: Some Social and Economic Aspects, is a scholarly monograph that…

The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.

Zebulon Montgomery Pike

The work is a meticulous account of Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s 1805‑1807 expeditions, presented in three…

The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts

John Dee

The volume presents two distinct but complementary documents drawn from the original manuscripts of the…

Staffordshire pottery and its history

Josiah C. Wedgwood

Josiah C. Wedgwood’s Staffordshire pottery and its history is a scholarly account of the pot‑making industry…

Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; Criticisms on His Genius and Writings; A New Chronology of His Plays; A Disquisition on the on the Object of His Sonnets; And a History of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry, and Elegant Literature of His Age

Nathan Drake

The work is a scholarly compendium that treats William Shakespeare not merely as a playwright but as a focal…

English Economic History: Select Documents

This volume is a curated anthology of primary documents intended for use in courses on English economic…

Annals of the persecution in Scotland: From the Restoration to the Revolution

James Aikman

The work is a historical chronicle of the Scottish Reformation’s darker side, tracing the persecution of…

Women of 'Ninety-Eight

Mrs. Thomas Concannon

The work is a historical tribute that foregrounds the women who lived through, suffered, and helped shape the…

Chronicles of the house of Borgia

Frederick Rolfe

Frederick Rolfe’s Chronicles of the House of Borgia is a sweeping historical essay that treats the rise and…

Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

George Francis Dow

George Francis Dow’s “Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony” is a modestly scholarly compilation…