History - European

British Campaigns in Flanders 1690-1794 Being Extracts from "A History of the British Army"

Sir J. W. (John William) Fortescue

The work is a scholarly survey of Britain’s military involvement in the Low Countries from the late…

The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals

E. P. Evans

The work is a scholarly survey of a little‑known facet of legal history: the formal prosecution and execution…

The Life of Cesare Borgia

Rafael Sabatini

The work is a historical study of Cesare Borgia, the flamboyant son of Pope Alexander VI, set against the…

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

James Dennistoun

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809: From the treaty of Fontainbleau to the battle of Corunna

Charles Oman

This volume is Charles Oman’s first installment of a comprehensive history of the Peninsular War, covering…

Salve Venetia, gleanings from Venetian history; vol. I

F. Marion Crawford

The Tournament—Its Periods and Phases

R. Coltman Clephan

The work is a scholarly survey of medieval tournament practice, written by the antiquarian R.

Ireland: The People's History of Ireland, Volume 1 (of 2)

John F. Finerty

Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times

Various

Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 is a contemporary news‑magazine produced by the New York Times…

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

Memories of an Old Etonian, 1860-1912

G. Greville Moore

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Jacobites" to "Japan" (part) Volume 15, Slice 2

Various

The volume presents a segment of the 11th‑edition Encyclopaedia Britannica, covering entries from “Jacobites”…

My past and thoughts, vol. 1 (of 6): The memoirs of Alexander Herzen

Aleksandr Herzen

The work is the first volume of Alexander Herzen’s six‑part memoir, a sprawling autobiographical record that…

My Year of the Great War

Frederick Palmer

Frederick Palmer’s My Year of the Great War is a first‑hand account by an American correspondent who spent…

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…

The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time

John S. C. Abbott

The work is a sweeping survey of Russian history, presented as a single‑volume “empire” narrative that moves…

Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs)

John Leighton

John Leighton’s work is a sprawling illustrated chronicle of the Paris Commune of 1871, presented as a…

Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)

Edward Gibbon

The volume presents the private correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the eighteenth‑century English historian…

Life of Mozart, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Otto Jahn

Otto Jahn’s second volume of “Life of Mozart” is a scholarly biography that blends documentary correspondence…

The pillars of Hercules: or, A narrative of travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848; Vol. 1

David Urquhart

David Urquhart’s The Pillars of Hercules is a travel narrative that sets out from the Strait of Gibraltar,…

Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Complete Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe

Du Hausset, Mme.; Lamballe, Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan, princesse de

The work is a collection of secret memoirs attributed to Madame du Hausset, the lady’s‑maid of Madame de…

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…

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx

The work is Karl Marx’s analytical essay on the French political upheavals of 1848‑1851, using the February…