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The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

David Livingstone

The work is a posthumous compilation of David Livingstone’s own field notes taken during his final African…

The Funny Side of Physic Or, The Mysteries of Medicine, Presenting the Humorous and Serious Sides of Medical Practice. An Exposé of Medical Humbugs, Quacks, and Charlatans in All Ages and All Countries.

Addison Darre Crabtre

The work is a sprawling, nineteenth‑century survey of medical practice that blends earnest health advice with…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55, 1683-1690 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

This volume is a meticulously compiled anthology of primary sources that illuminate the Philippines between…

Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899: a narrative of the voyage of the "Belgica" among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the south pole

Frederick Albert Cook

Frederick A. Cook’s account is a first‑hand narrative of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897‑99, the…

The Annals of the Cakchiquels

Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá

The Annals of the Cakchiquels is a scholarly edition that presents the original native manuscript of a…

The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain

George Borrow

The work is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic study of the Romani peoples of Spain, written by George Borrow,…

Memorials of Human Superstition being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne

Jean Louis de Lolme

The work is a scholarly paraphrase and commentary on the Abbé Boileau’s twelve‑volume Historia Flagellantium,…

Superstition and Force Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture

Henry Charles Lea

Superstition and Force is a scholarly survey of the ancient legal customs that once settled disputes through…

The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2)

Juan González de Mendoza

The work is a scholarly re‑edition of Juan González de Mendoza’s early seventeenth‑century account of China,…

The Story of Great Inventions

Elmer Ellsworth Burns

Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s

George H. Ham

Reminiscences of a Raconteur is an autobiographical memoir by George H.

Devonshire Characters and Strange Events

S. Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring‑Gould’s Devonshire Characters and Strange Events is a Victorian‑era compendium of local…

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria

Louis Creswicke

The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery

John R. Wise

John R. Wise’s “The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery” is a nineteenth‑century topographical study that…

History of Human Society

Frank W. Blackmar

Frank W. Blackmar’s History of Human Society is a sweeping survey of civilization that begins by outlining…

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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 2 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that Country from the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

Brantz Mayer

The work is a sweeping reference on Mexico that blends geography, geology, statistics, and political history…

The quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. 4, March, 1903-December, 1903

Oregon Historical Society

Argentina

W. A. Hirst

The work is a comprehensive survey of Argentina written by William Alfred Hirst, an Englishman who frames the…

Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a series of critical and historical essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, assembled under…

South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time

Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson

The work is a first‑person memoir by Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson, written in 1909, that chronicles her…

Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day

The volume is an illustrated survey of women painters from the early sixteenth‑century Italian masters…

Native Life in South Africa Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion

Sol. T. Plaatje

Native Life in South Africa is a politically charged account by Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, written in 1916 as…

Dawn in darkest Africa

John H. Harris

The work is a lengthy, polemical study of European involvement in West‑African territories, written by John…