History - Modern (1750+)

Dealings with the Inquisition; Or, Papal Rome, Her Priests, and Her Jesuits

Giacinto Achilli

The work is a polemical memoir by Giacinto Achilli, a former prisoner of the Roman Inquisition, written…

The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)

J. Holland Rose

The work is a scholarly biography of Napoleon I that treats the emperor not merely as a military genius but…

Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages

Fulgence Marion

This work is a nineteenth‑century historical survey of ballooning, written by Fulgence Marion and first…

Some Problems of the Peace Conference

Haskins, Charles Homer; Lord, Robert Howard

The work is a scholarly collection of eight lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in early 1920, later…

History of the United States of America, Volume 7 (of 9): During the second administration of James Madison

Henry Adams

This volume is the seventh of Henry Adams’s nine‑part chronicle of United States history, concentrating on…

Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; Between 1793 and 1849

William O. S. Gilly

This volume is a meticulously compiled record of every Royal Navy shipwreck from 1793 to 1849, drawn from…

The Macedonian campaign

Luigi Villari

The book is a detailed military history of the Macedonian front in World War I, written by Luigi Villari, who…

A History of the Third French Republic

C. H. C. Wright

Charles Henry Conrad Wright’s work is a scholarly survey of France’s political and military trajectory from…

Manual of Ship Subsidies An Historical Summary of the Systems of All Nations

Edwin M. Bacon

This work is a compact reference on the evolution of ship‑subsidy systems among the world’s maritime powers,…

Turner's Sketches and Drawings

A. J. Finberg

The History of Cuba, vol. 2

Willis Fletcher Johnson

The work is a scholarly survey of Cuban history, the second volume of Willis Fletcher Johnson’s multi‑volume…

Modern Religious Cults and Movements

Gaius Glenn Atkins

The book is a scholarly survey of the religious cults and movements that have emerged since the late…

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 4 (of 8) From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree

Louis Creswicke

Allen's West London Street Directory, 1868

Samuel Allen

Allen’s West London Street Directory, 1868, is a Victorian‑era reference work that catalogues the commercial…

La vita in Palermo cento e più anni fa, Volume 1

Giuseppe Pitrè

Il volume è un’opera di storia sociale che raccoglie, sotto la guida di Giuseppe Pitrè, una serie di studi e…

The History of the First West India Regiment

A. B. Ellis

The work is a detailed military history of the First West India Regiment, compiled by Alfred Burdon Ellis, a…

The British Expedition to the Crimea

Sir William Howard Russell

The work is a first‑hand historical account of the British Crimean campaign, written by Sir William Howard…

The Conquest of New France; A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars

George McKinnon Wrong

George McKinnon Wrong’s The Conquest of New France is a sweeping historical narrative that traces the clash…

The Western Front Drawings by Muirhead Bone

The work is a wartime visual record, a collection of Muirhead Bone’s drawings that chronicle the British…

The Viceroys of Ireland

Charles Kingston

The Viceroys of Ireland is a comprehensive historical study that traces the succession of English…

The female-impersonators $b A sequel to the autobiography of an androgyne and an account of some of the author's experiences during his six years' career as instinctive female-impersonator in New York's underworld; Together with the Life Stories of Androgyne Associates and an Outline of His Subsequently Acquired Knowledge of Kindred Phenomena of Human Character and Psychology

Ralph Werther

The Surrender of Napoleon Being the narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th of August 1815

Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland

Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland’s Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte is a first‑hand account of the…

New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission

DeLancey M. Ellis

The work is a formal report of the New York State Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904,…

Worcestershire in the Nineteenth Century A Complete Digest of Facts Occuring in the County since the Commencement of the year 1800

T. C. Turberville

This work is a utilitarian chronicle of Worcestershire from 1800 to the mid‑nineteenth century, compiled by…