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Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Sven Anders Hedin

The work is a first‑hand account of Sven Anders Hedin’s 1909 expedition across the Trans‑Himalayan plateau,…

Musical Instruments [1908]

Carl Engel

Carl Engel’s Musical Instruments is a scholarly survey that catalogues the diverse range of sound‑producing…

Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3)

Arthur Griffiths

Arthur Griffiths’s Mysteries of Police and Crime is a sweeping survey of criminality and its detection,…

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2

Rupert Hughes

The volume is a biographical sketch that treats the life of Franz Liszt as a series of romantic episodes,…

A History of Aeronautics

Vivian, Evelyn Charles; Marsh, W. Lockwood

This work is a scholarly survey of aeronautical development up to the early 1920s, compiled by Evelyn Charles…

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King.

Collins, David; King, Philip Gidley

The work is a detailed colonial report compiled by David Collins, a senior officer who lived through the…

The Venetian School of Painting

Evelyn March Phillipps

The book is a compact survey of the Venetian School of painting, written by Evelyn March Phillipps to fill…

A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

George Elliott Howard

This work is a scholarly survey of marriage and family institutions, written by George E. Howard in 1904.

Cover of The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700
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 Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 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 dense compilation of contemporary reports, letters, and chronicles that document the…

The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History

Brooks Adams

The work is a scholarly essay that treats the rise and fall of societies as a series of natural laws rather…

Cover of Narrative, of a five years' expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772 to 1777 ... Volume 2 (of 2)

Narrative, of a five years' expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772 to 1777 ... Volume 2 (of 2)

John Gabriel Stedman

This volume is the second half of John Gabriel Stedman’s sprawling narrative of a five‑year military campaign…

Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills

Virgil M. Harris

Virgil M. Harris’s Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills is a scholarly compilation that gathers together a…

The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398

James Mooney

The work is a scholarly compilation of Cherokee ritual texts drawn from manuscripts that James Mooney…

Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development

W. H. Matthews

The work is a scholarly survey of the many forms that labyrinths and mazes have taken from antiquity to the…

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation. Volume 1

Charles Roger

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical survey that sets out to trace Canada’s evolution from its…

History of Spanish Literature, vol. 3 (of 3)

George Ticknor

Cover of The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860
Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc.

The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc.

C. F. G. Clark

The end of the trail: The far west from New Mexico to British Columbia

E. Alexander Powell

The work is a sweeping travel‑essay that blends historical overview with first‑hand observation of the “Last…

Campfire and battlefield: an illustrated history of the campaigns and conflicts of the great Civil War

Johnson, Rossiter; Connor, Selden; Gordon, John Brown; Howard, Henry W. B. (Henry Ward Beecher); Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis); Morgan, John Tyler; Ridpath, John Clark

Campfire and Battlefield is an illustrated history that traces the political, economic, and military forces…

Among Congo cannibals

John H. Weeks

John H. Weeks presents a first‑hand ethnographic record of his three decades among the Boloki (also called…

The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song

John Oliver Wardrop

The book is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that sets out to acquaint English‑speaking readers with the…

The ivory king: A popular history of the elephant and its allies

Charles Frederick Holder

The work is a popular history of the elephant, written by Charles Frederick Holder and first issued in New…

The History of Court Fools

Dr. Doran

The work is a scholarly survey of the role of jesters, philosophers and poets who served as “licensed fools”…

The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women

Frederic Rowland Marvin

The work is a compendium of the final utterances, both historically documented and traditionally ascribed, of…