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Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day

Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day

Mrs. Lanaghan

Mrs. Lanaghan’s work is a nineteenth‑century compilation of history, travelogue, and personal memoir that…

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Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches

T. L. Pennell

The work is a first‑person memoir by Theodore Leighton Pennell, a British doctor‑missionary who spent sixteen…

The World's Progress, Vol. 01 (of 10) With Illustrative texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature

The World's Progress, Vol. 01 (of 10) With Illustrative texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature

Delphian Society

The World’s Progress, Vol. 01 is a sweeping survey of human civilization that begins with a description of a…

Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia

Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia

David Wynford Carnegie

David Wynford Carnegie’s “Spinifex and Sand” is a first‑person account of five years spent prospecting,…

Cover of Costume: Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical

Costume: Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical

Mrs. Aria

Cover of Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations

Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations

John Francis Arundell Arundell of Wardour

Lord John Francis Arundell’s Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations is a…

A History of Science — Volume 2

A History of Science — Volume 2

Williams, Henry Smith; Williams, Edward Huntington

This work is a scholarly survey of scientific development from the waning of the Roman world in the fifth…

Cover of Old and rare Scottish tartans: With Historical Introduction and Descriptive Notices

Old and rare Scottish tartans: With Historical Introduction and Descriptive Notices

Donald William Stewart

The work is a scholarly catalogue of old and rare Scottish tartans, compiled by Donald William Stewart in…

Cover of Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J. Its History, Legends and Ghost Stories Gathered from the Records and the Older Inhabitants Now Living

Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J. Its History, Legends and Ghost Stories Gathered from the Records and the Older Inhabitants Now Living

C. G. Hine

Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J. is a locally focused historical narrative that blends factual records…

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The Book of the Ocean

Ernest Ingersoll

The Book of the Ocean is a sweeping survey of the world’s seas, beginning with a geographic framing that…

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Mechanics: The Science of Machinery

A. Russell Bond

Mechanics: The Science of Machinery is a broad‑sweeping survey of humanity’s relationship with machines,…

Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod

Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod

Péter Vay

The work is a sprawling travel memoir that blends personal observation with a survey of the political and…

Cover of The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 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 36, 1649-1666 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 meticulously compiled collection of ecclesiastical reports, official correspondence, and…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914)

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914)

The volume is a scholarly survey of the years 1910‑1914, presented by a collective of noted historians who…

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3

Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay’s Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions is a sweeping survey of the ways human…

The Story of Ireland

The Story of Ireland

Emily Lawless

Emily Lawless’s The Story of Ireland is a sweeping historical survey that begins with a reflective preface on…

An Introduction to the History of Science

An Introduction to the History of Science

Walter Libby

Walter Libby’s An Introduction to the History of Science is a concise survey that seeks to show how…

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Epidemics Resulting from Wars

Friedrich Prinzing

This work is a scholarly monograph that investigates how wars have repeatedly generated devastating epidemics…

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Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-West

Mrs. John H. Kinzie

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British and Foreign Arms & Armour

Charles Henry Ashdown

The work is a scholarly survey of arms and armour that spans from prehistoric stone implements through the…

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Lightships and Lighthouses

Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

Frederick A. Talbot’s Lightships and Lighthouses is a comprehensive technical guide to the structures and…

Cover of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614

The volume gathers a series of reports, letters, and narrative excerpts that document the early Jesuit…

Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign

Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign

John Ashton

John Ashton’s work is a sprawling compilation of anecdotes, news items and illustrations that aim to preserve…

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

Watkin Tench

Watkin Tench’s work is a first‑hand chronicle of the early years of the British settlement at Port Jackson,…

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