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South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Cyrus Townsend Brady’s South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure is a sprawling…

Cocoa and Chocolate: Their History from Plantation to Consumer

Arthur William Knapp

Arthur William Knapp’s work is a concise survey of cocoa and chocolate that aims to bridge the gap between…

The Naval Pioneers of Australia

Becke, Louis; Jeffery, Walter

The work is a scholarly compilation that sets out to rescue from obscurity the naval figures who prepared the…

Irish Plays and Playwrights

Cornelius Weygandt

Cornelius Weygandt’s Irish Plays and Playwrights is a scholarly survey of the Irish dramatic revival at the…

The Iroquois; or, the bright side of Indian character

Anna C. Johnson

The work is a nineteenth‑century ethnographic study that seeks to present the customs, government, religion…

西湖夢尋

Dai Zhang

The Great White North The story of polar exploration from the earliest times to the discovery of the pole

Helen S. Wright

Helen S. Wright’s The Great White North is a sweeping survey of Arctic exploration, compiled from a wide…

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…

Woman Triumphant: The story of her struggles for freedom, education and political rights. Dedicated to all noble-minded women by an appreciative member of the other sex.

Rudolf Cronau

Rudolf Cronau’s Woman Triumphant is a sweeping historical survey that frames the struggle for women’s rights…

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,…

The Story of Assisi

Lina Duff Gordon

The Story of Assisi is a richly illustrated historical survey that traces the town’s evolution from its…

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…

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 book of witches

Oliver Madox Hueffer

Oliver Madox Hueffer’s The Book of Witches is a polemical essay rather than a scholarly compendium.

The Philippine Islands

Ramon Reyes Lala

The work is a comprehensive survey of the Philippine Islands, written by Ramon Reyes Lala, a Filipino-born…

An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South.

Thomas Lindsay Buick

Thomas Lindsay Buick’s work is a nineteenth‑century biography that seeks to give a fuller picture of Te…

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…

History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12)

A. S. Rappoport

The work is a scholarly survey of Egyptian history from the late Hellenistic period through the medieval era,…

Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland Collected Entirely from Oral Sources

John Gregorson Campbell

This volume, compiled by Rev. J. Gregorson Campbell and issued in August 1900, presents a systematic survey…

Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants

W. Pridden

The work is a nineteenth‑century survey of Australia and Tasmania, written by the Rev.

Shipbuilding from its beginnings. Vol. 1 (of 3)

E. van Konijnenburg

This work is a scholarly survey of the origins and evolution of shipbuilding, written by Emile van…

Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate

C. A. W. Monckton

The work is a first‑person memoir by Charles Arthur Whitmore Monckton, a British resident magistrate who…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 46, 1721-1739 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 scholarly compilation of historical documents covering the Philippines from 1721 to 1739,…

Dimasalang Kalendariong Tagalog (1922)

Honorio López

The work is a 1922 Tagalog calendar compiled by Honorio Lopez, a former revolutionary officer, agronomist,…