History - European

The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events

Leigh Hunt

The work is a sprawling, unabridged survey of London’s historic core, concentrating on the stretch between St…

Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Various Classes of Parisian Society

Alvan F. Sanborn

Alvan F. Sanborn’s Paris and the Social Revolution offers a systematic survey of the revolutionary currents…

Rambles in Rome An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the Campagna

S. Russell Forbes

Rambles in Rome is a scholarly guide that combines the author’s expertise as an archaeological lecturer with…

The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

The work is a personal memoir of Alexis de Tocqueville, written in the years following the February…

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle

The volume opens with an extended essay that frames Otto von Bismarck’s political life as an outgrowth of a…

History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6)

Heinrich Graetz

John Knox and the Reformation

Andrew Lang

This work is a scholarly biography that sets out to reassess John Knox by challenging the traditional view…

Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and Achievements

Thomas E. Watson

Thomas E. Watson’s “Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and Achievements” is a concise,…

A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age

Thatcher, Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph); McNeal, Edgar Holmes

This volume is a curated collection of translated primary documents meant to support the teaching of medieval…

French Book-plates

Walter Hamilton

Walter Hamilton’s work is a scholarly survey of French ex‑libris, the decorative book‑plates that signal…

Bismarck: some secret pages of his history (Vol. 1 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great Chancellor

Moritz Busch

This volume is the first of a three‑part diary kept by Dr Moritz Busch, who spent twenty‑five years in close…

The love-affairs of the Condés (1530-1740)

H. Noel Williams

The work is a scholarly survey of the Condé dynasty, tracing its principal figures from the early…

Seville: an historical and descriptive account of "the pearl of Andalusia"

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a richly illustrated guide that blends travel narrative, historical…

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915

Various

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Volume 1, Issue 4 (January 23 1915) presents a…

The history of the harlequinade, volume 1 (of 2)

Maurice Sand

Maurice Sand’s The History of the Harlequinade is a scholarly survey that traces the evolution of comic…

The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Luigi Lanzi

Luigi Lanzi’s The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 is a scholarly survey of the Roman School from the…

History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2)

Friedrich Bouterwek

The work is a scholarly survey of Spanish and Portuguese literature, translated from Friedrich Bouterwek’s…

French enterprise in Africa: the personal narrative of Lieut. Hourst of his exploration of the Niger

Hourst

The work is a first‑person account of Lieutenant Hour Hourst’s 1890s expedition along the Niger, presented as…

Goya, an account of his life and works

Albert Frederick Calvert

Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a scholarly survey of the Spanish master Francisco Goya, presented as a…

Dumas' Paris

M. F. Mansfield

The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2)

Florence May

Florence May’s second volume on the life of Johannes Brahma ns is a scholarly biography that begins by…

Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bd.1, Mitteldeutschland, 1914

Georg Dehio

Das vorliegende Werk ist ein systematisches Handbuch zur Erfassung und Beschreibung der Kunstdenkmäler…

A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language

Walter Simson

Walter Simson’s A History of the Gipsies is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey that sets out to document…

Gli eretici d'Italia, vol. II

Cesare Cantù

Il volume è un trattato storico‑teologico che indaga le eresie cristiane in Italia, con particolare…