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The Honey-Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology and Management

Edward Bevan

The Honey‑Bee is a nineteenth‑century treatise that blends natural history, physiology and practical…

Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata Their Present State, Trade, and Debt

Sir Woodbine Parish

This work is a scholarly survey of the Argentine Republic and its surrounding territories in the early…

History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12)

G. Maspero

The volume is a scholarly survey of the later Assyrian and Babylonian periods, written by the French…

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia

Paul T. Gilbert

The work is a travel‑memoir by Paul T. Gilbert, written in December 1903, that records his personal…

Lost ships and lonely seas

Ralph Delahaye Paine

Lost Ships and Lonely Seas is a maritime adventure that reads like a living museum of…

A history of the colonization of Africa by alien races

Harry Johnston

This work is a scholarly survey of Africa’s encounters with external powers from antiquity to the early…

Indian Unrest

Sir Valentine Chirol

The work is a collected edition of Sir Valentine Chirol’s series of articles for The Times, assembled to give…

A History of Freedom of Thought

J. B. Bury

A History of Freedom of Thought is a scholarly survey that traces the long‑run struggle between authority and…

Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New 3rd ed.

Walter Crane

Walter Crane’s Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New is a scholarly survey of book…

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 01: Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia

The Historians’ History of the World in Twenty‑Five Volumes, Volume 01, opens with a sweeping “Prolegomena”…

Eccentricities of the Animal Creation.

John Timbs

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 5, Oct. 1811-Aug. 31, 1812: Valencia, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Madrid

Charles Oman

This fifth volume of Charles Oman’s exhaustive history of the Peninsular War picks up the narrative where the…

Ten Days That Shook the World

John Reed

John Reed’s Ten Days That Shook the World is a first‑hand chronicle of the November 1917 Revolution, written…

Mexico

Susan Hale

Brazilian Literature

Isaac Goldberg

Isaac Goldberg’s work is a scholarly survey of Brazilian literature, written to mark the centenary of…

The Niagara River

Archer Butler Hulbert

The work is a scholarly survey of the Niagara River and its surrounding region, presented as a single‑volume…

Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens

George T. Ferris

The volume is a biographical compendium that surveys the most celebrated opera singers from the early…

Fairs, past and present: A chapter in the history of commerce

Cornelius Walford

The work is a scholarly survey of fairs, tracing their evolution from ancient religious gatherings to the…

A History of Bohemian Literature

Lützow, Francis, hrabe

This work is a scholarly survey of Bohemian literary development, written by Francis Lützow and first issued…

Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic

Andrew Stephenson

The work is a scholarly monograph that sets out to chart the evolution of Rome’s public lands from the city’s…

Spanish Life in Town and Country

Higgin, L.; Street, Eugène E.

Spanish Life in Town and Country is a comprehensive survey of Iberian society written at the turn of the…

Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1868

Ella Lonn

This work is a scholarly dissertation by Ella Lonn, completed for a Ph.D.

Angola and the River Congo, vol. 2

Joachim John Monteiro

Monteiro’s second volume is a first‑hand travelogue that blends geographic description with ethnographic…

The Pearl, its story, its charm, and its value

Wallis Richard Cattelle

The work is a comprehensive treatise on the pearl, beginning with a sweeping description of its birth beneath…