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A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

M. B. Synge

A Book of Discovery is a sweeping historical survey that traces humanity’s urge to chart the unknown from…

The Mongols: A history

Jeremiah Curtin

Jeremiah Curtin’s “The Mongols: A History” opens with a personal dedication to Theodore Roosevelt, written in…

The Truth about the Titanic

Archibald Gracie

The work is a first‑person memoir of Archibald Gracie, a passenger who survived the sinking of the Titanic on…

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators

George Hart

The work is a scholarly reference on the violin, its historic development, and the lives of its most…

The natives of British Central Africa

Alice Werner

History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River, Volume 1 (of 2) Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge

Hiram Martin Chittenden

The work is a biographical history that began in the summer of 1896 when H. M.

The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

Alfred Biese

Alfred Biese’s work is a scholarly survey that traces how humanity’s emotional relationship with the natural…

The art of music. Vol. 01 (of 14): The pre-Classic periods

The work is a scholarly, multi‑volume survey of music history, beginning with a detailed introduction to the…

The Story of Eclipses

George F. Chambers

The work is a popular‑science guide to solar and lunar eclipses, written as a sequel to George F.

The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making

R. W. Sindall

The Manufacture of Paper is a technical handbook written by Robert Walter Sindall, a consulting chemist and…

Incwadi Yami; or, twenty years' personal experience in South Africa

J. W. Matthews

Incwadi Yami is a first‑person memoir that chronicles Dr J. W.

The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6)

Max Duncker

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient civilizations, written by Max Duncker as the fourth volume in a…

清代野记

Zuoguanlaoren

Woman's Work in Music

Arthur Elson

Arthur Elson’s Woman’s Work in Music is a scholarly survey that traces the presence of women in musical life…

The Bontoc Igorot

Albert Ernest Jenks

The work is an early‑twentieth‑century ethnographic monograph that records Albert Ernest Jenks’s five‑month…

The origin of the family, private property, and the state

Friedrich Engels

The work is a scholarly synthesis that brings together the research of 19th‑century thinkers such as Lewis…

The Russian Opera

Rosa Newmarch

The work is a scholarly survey of Russian opera, assembled from a series of five lectures delivered to the…

Jewels and the woman: The romance, magic and art of feminine adornment

Marianne Ostier

Marianne Ostier’s Jewels and the Woman is a comprehensive reference work that treats jewelry as both cultural…

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The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature

C.-F. Volney

Volney’s The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature is an…

A history of the Brazil: Comprising Its Geography, Commerce, Colonization, Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c. &c. &c.

James Henderson

James Henderson’s work is a sprawling reference on Brazil as it existed up to 1822, organized province by…

History of the Fan

G. Woolliscroft Rhead

The work is a scholarly survey of the fan as an object of art, ritual, and fashion, presented as the first…

The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire

Charles Morris

The work is a sober, documentary‑style chronicle of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the conflagration…

The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2)

Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

The Tuzuk‑i‑Jahangiri, or Memoirs of Jahangir, is a royal autobiography of the Mughal emperor who ruled India…