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The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The work is a sweeping survey of world history presented as a single narrative, beginning with a vivid,…

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1

Charles Eliot

This work is a scholarly survey of the development and spread of Hinduism and Buddhism, written by Charles…

The literature of the Celts

Magnus Maclean

Magnus Maclean’s The Literature of the Celts offers a scholarly survey of Celtic literary heritage, framed as…

The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The book is a scholarly exposition of Sun Yat‑sen’s political thought, focusing on his chief treatise, the…

Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 1 of 2) The Russian Provinces

H. F. B. Lynch

The work is a two‑part travelogue by H. F. B. Lynch, chronicling two separate expeditions to Armenia between…

The Problem of the Rupee, Its Origin and Its Solution

B. R. Ambedkar

The work is a scholarly treatise on the Indian rupee, written by B. R.

The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain

Jennie J. Young

The book is a scholarly compendium that seeks to answer the principal questions surrounding the history and…

The Oera Linda Book, from a Manuscript of the Thirteenth Century

The Oera Linda Book is presented here as an English translation of a manuscript that has long sparked…

A History of Sanskrit Literature

Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Arthur Anthony Macdonell’s A History of Sanskrit Literature is a scholarly survey that seeks to fill a gap in…

Kabuki: The popular stage of Japan

Zoë Kincaid

Zoë Kincaid’s Kabuki: The Popular Stage of Japan is a scholarly survey of the art form, first published in…

History of the Philippine Islands

Antonio de Morga

This volume offers the opening segment of Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, a systematic…

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce

E. R. Billings

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey of tobacco, written by E. R.

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The volume is a scholarly survey of South‑Indian castes and tribes, compiled by the early‑20th‑century…

A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day

Douglas Hyde

The work is a scholarly survey of Irish‑language literature, deliberately excluding the English‑language…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" Volume 13, Slice 4

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition presents a scholarly overview of the term “hero,” beginning with a…

Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe

John J. McLaurin

John J. McLaurin’s Sketches in Crude‑oil is a self‑styled “collection of anecdotes and incidents” that offers…

The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe

Fay-Cooper Cole

Cole’s study is a scholarly ethnography that situates the Tinguian within a broader sweep of Philippine…

The history of the Jews: From the war with Rome to the present time

H. C. Adams

The work is a nineteenth‑century popular history by Henry Cadwallader Adams, intended to trace the fortunes…

Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.

Clara Erskine Clement Waters

This work is a scholarly survey of women artists from antiquity through the twentieth century, beginning with…

The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5

Hubert Howe Bancroft

The work is the concluding volume of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s extensive survey of the indigenous peoples of the…

The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions

Andrew Battell

The work is a seventeenth‑century travel narrative that records the experiences of Andrew Battell, an English…

A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art

Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright’s A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art is a scholarly survey that traces…

Medical symbolism in connection with historical studies in the arts of healing and hygiene

Thomas S. Sozinskey

Thomas S. Sozinskey’s “Medical Symbolism in Connection with Historical Studies in the Arts of Healing and…

Lives of alchemystical philosophers To which is added a bibliography of alchemy and hermetic philosophy

Waite, Arthur Edward; Barrett, Francis

The work is a scholarly compilation that updates the 1815 anonymous volume “The Lives of Alchemystical…