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Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Great Men and Famous Women, Volume 4 is a biographical compendium that sketches the lives of more than two…

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Yanwu Gu

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899

Louis Creswicke

Louis Creswicke’s first volume of “South Africa and the Transvaal War” is a comprehensive historical study…

An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet

Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Arnold Henry Savage Landor’s work is a first‑person travelogue that doubles as a scientific expedition…

The history of magic: Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries

Éliphas Lévi

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical survey of occult theory, written by Alphonse Louis Constant under…

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery

Robert Means Lawrence

Robert Means Lawrence’s Primitive Psycho‑Therapy and Quackery is a scholarly survey of the ways in which…

Modern Persia

Mooshie G. Daniel

The work is a missionary‑focused survey of nineteenth‑century Persia, written by Daniel Mooshie G.

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

Edward Potts Cheyney

This work is a scholarly textbook designed for college and secondary‑school courses, presenting a systematic…

Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances.

Frank Cowan

Frank Cowan’s work is a sprawling compilation of the folklore, superstition and occasional practical uses…

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party

Martin Robison Delany

The work is an official record of the Niger Valley Exploring Party, authored by Martin Robison Delany, a…

Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.

Anonymous

The work presents itself as a sweeping survey of women across history and geography, framed as a moral and…

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Gu Ban

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899

Louis Creswicke

The Indian Question

Francis Amasa Walker

Francis A. Walker’s The Indian Question is a historical‑political study that opens with a sweeping, polemical…

The Care of Books

John Willis Clark

John Willis Clark’s The Care of Books is a scholarly essay that surveys the history of library architecture…

A Short History of the Fatimid Khalifate

De Lacy O'Leary

The work is a concise scholarly overview of the Fatimid caliphate, focusing on the line of Fatimid khalifs…

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay’s Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a sweeping survey of…

History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 4 (of 4)

W. S. Lindsay

This volume is the concluding part of a four‑book series that chronicles the evolution of commercial…

The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World

William W. Sanger

The book is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey of prostitution, begun in 1856 and hurried to press after a…

History for ready reference, Volume 4, Nicæa to Tunis

J. N. Larned

The volume is a reference work that strings together concise entries on a wide sweep of historical subjects,…

History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 1 (of 4)

W. S. Lindsay

This work is a scholarly survey of maritime commerce from the earliest rafts to the rise of steam navigation,…

The Common Law

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The work is a scholarly treatise on the development of the common law, opening with a methodical preface that…

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

Charles Eliot

The work is a scholarly survey of the spread of Hindu and Buddhist civilization across Asia, the third volume…

An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians

Edward William Lane

Edward William Lane’s work is a meticulous ethnographic account of Egyptian life as observed between 1833 and…