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The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896
William Arthur Shaw
The work is a scholarly survey of European metallic money from the medieval period through the nineteenth…
History of Holland
George Edmundson
The work is a scholarly survey of Dutch history, presented as one volume in a larger series that aims to…
ReadThe Holy Roman Empire
James Bryce
The work is a scholarly treatise by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce, that sets out to explain the Holy Roman…
ReadPicturesque Germany First Series
Anonymous
Picturesque Germany First Series is a visual compendium that celebrates the nation’s architectural and…
ReadThe Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 2 (of 2) By His Wife, Isabel Burton
Lady Isabel Burton
The work is a biographical memoir of the explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton, written by his wife Isabel…
ReadLorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2)
Alfred von Reumont
Alfred von Reumont’s second volume on Lorenzo de’ Medici is a comprehensive historical study that begins with…
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
John Henry Newman
The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly compilation by John Henry Newman, who first delivered the material…
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4)
William Milligan Sloane
The fourth volume of William Milligan Sloane’s four‑part “Life of Napoleon Bonaparte” is a dense…
ReadHistory of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great.
John S. C. Abbott
The work is a concise, single‑volume synthesis of John S. C.
France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol 1: A Half-Century of Conflict
Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman’s France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol.
ReadMy Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821
Alexandre Dumas
ReadA history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 3, Sep. 1809-Dec. 1810: Ocaña, Cadiz, Bussaco, Torres Vedras
Charles Oman
The third volume of Charles Oman’s History of the Peninsular War picks up where the first two left off,…
ReadThe Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9), Now Commonly Known as the Black Death
Francis Aidan Gasquet
This work is a scholarly history of the Black Death as it unfolded in England, written by Francis Aidan…
ReadEurope in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History
A. H. Johnson
Arthur Henry Johnson’s Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494‑1598 is a scholarly handbook that forms the…
ReadThe Champlain tercentenary: Final report of the New York Lake Champlain tercentenary commission
Henry Wayland New York (State). Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission; Hill
ReadProofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies.
John Robison
Robison’s work is a polemical treatise that sets out to expose what he perceives as a coordinated effort by…
ReadThe Last Days of the Romanovs
N. Sokolov
The work is a historical compilation that brings together official depositions and a contemporary narrative…
ReadA Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools Including by Special Permission Notes Collected from the Works of John Ruskin
This work is a scholarly guide to the National Gallery’s foreign‑school paintings, first issued in 1888 and…
ReadHarper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851
Various
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII (October 1851) is a nineteenth‑century periodical anthology…
ReadChristina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590
Julia Cartwright
The work is a scholarly biography of Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, written by Julia…
ReadThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 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
The volume is a scholarly compilation that brings together Antonio Pig Pigafetta’s late‑16th‑century…
ReadRobert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
Charles W. David
The work is a scholarly biography of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror, placed firmly…
ReadSouth Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901
Louis Creswicke
Louis Creswicke’s sixth volume in his eight‑part series on the South African and Transvaal War is a detailed…
Ireland as it is, and as it would be under Home Rule
Robert John Buckley
Robert John Buckley’s Ireland as it is, and as it would be under Home Rule is a contemporary report by the…