History - European

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700 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

The volume is a scholarly compilation of ecclesiastical and civil documents that trace the political,…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)

The volume is a sweeping survey of European history from the reign of Charlemagne to the rise of Frederick…

Tyrol and Its People

Clive Holland

Clive Holland’s Tyrol and Its People is a travel‑history hybrid that opens with a detailed preface outlining…

Hong Kong

Gene Gleason

The book is a sweeping historical study of Hong Kong, written by Gene Gleason, that opens with a vivid…

Cleopatra's needle: with brief notes on Egypt and Egyptian obelisks

Sir Erasmus Wilson

Erasmus Wilson’s work is a scholarly pamphlet that serves as a concise guide to the Egyptian monument known…

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

Edward Gibbon

The fourth volume of Edward Gibbon’s monumental History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire continues…

The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2

Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

The work is a two‑volume collection of the letters and memoirs of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, the 16th‑century…

The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Luigi Lanzi

The work is a scholarly survey of Italian painting, focusing on the Venetian school from its earliest traces…

Belgium

George W. T. Omond

An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland

Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae’s work is a scholarly survey of Scandinavian influence on the British Isles,…

Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4

Wolfgang Menzel

Wolfgang Menzel’s Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 is a sweeping survey of German cultural history,…

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)

Robert S. Rait

Robert S. Rait’s An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500‑1707) is a scholarly survey…

Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic Paris

Orlo Williams

The work is a nonfiction study that opens with a sweeping meditation on the power of language, especially the…

History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814, vol. 6

William Francis Patrick Napier

Volume VI concludes William F. P. Napier’s six‑part chronicle of the Peninsular and southern‑French campaigns…

Illustrations of the author of Waverley: Being Notices and Anecdotes of Real Characters, Scenes, and Incidents Supposed to Be Described in His Works

Robert Chambers

The work is a nineteenth‑century compendium of notes, anecdotes and “interesting details” that link the real…

Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens

John Ruskin

The work is a historical essay by John Ruskin that blends travel narrative, cultural commentary, and a modest…

English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsula. Extracted from his 'Peninsula War'.

William Francis Patrick Napier

This work is a detailed military chronicle of the Peninsular War, compiled by William Francis Patrick Napier…

Memories of the Kaiser's Court

Anne Topham

The work is a first‑person memoir by Anne Topham, an Englishwoman thrust into the world of Wilhelm II’s court…

The life of the emperor Francis Joseph

Francis Henry Gribble

The work is a scholarly biography of Francis Joseph I, the long‑reigning emperor of Austria, written by…

The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

The work is the second volume of François‑René Chateaubriand’s sprawling autobiographical series, Mémoires…

The Early History of the Scottish Union Question Bi-Centenary Edition

George W. T. Omond

The work is a scholarly survey of the many diplomatic and military overtures that preceded the formal union…

Love affairs of the Courts of Europe

Thornton Hall

Hall’s Love affairs of the Courts of Europe is a biographical narrative that traces the astonishing rise of…

Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11

Buchanan’s Journal of Man, December 1887, Volume 1, Number 11 is a periodical that blends scientific…

Historia de América desde sus tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días, tomo I

Juan Ortega Rubio

Este tomo I es una crónica histórica que pretende abarcar la evolución de América desde sus orígenes hasta la…