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Early Quaker education in Pennsylvania

Thomas Woody

Thomas W. Woody’s dissertation, “Early Quaker Education in Pennsylvania,” is a scholarly study that draws on…

Il Comento alla Divina Commedia, e gli altri scritti intorno a Dante, vol. 1

Giovanni Boccaccio

Il volume è una raccolta di commenti e scritti di Giovanni Boccaccio dedicati a Dante Alighieri, con…

臺灣外紀

Jiang, Risheng, active 1692

The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind

H. G. Wells

The Outline of History is H. G. Wells’s ambitious attempt to compress the entire story of life and humanity…

The hero of the Filipinos: The story of José Rizal, poet, patriot and martyr

Russell, Charles Edward; Rodriguez, Eulogio Balan

The work is a scholarly biography that seeks to bring together the scattered sources on José Rizal for an…

The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day

Larwood, Jacob; Hotten, John Camden

The work is a scholarly survey of English inn signs and other commercial signboards from antiquity to the…

Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896

Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen’s Farthest North, Vol. II records the planning and execution of the 1893‑96 Fram expedition,…

The Story of a Dark Plot; Or, Tyranny on the Frontier

A.L.O.C.

The work is a polemical narrative that blends factual reportage with a moral‑ist’s call to action.

The Sanskrit drama: In Its Origin, Development, Theory and Practice

Arthur Berriedale Keith

Arthur Berriedale Keith’s work is a scholarly survey of Sanskrit drama that situates the art’s origins,…

The Superstitions of Witchcraft

Howard Williams

Howard Williams’s work is a scholarly survey of witch‑craft as a product of superstition, opening with a…

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero‑Worship, and the Heroic in History is a series of lectures that treat “Great…

A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions

E. V. Lucas

The work is a scholarly companion to Ibn Khallikān’s Wafāyāt al‑ʿAʿyān, the medieval biographical dictionary…

Historic Jamaica

Frank Cundall

A history of social thought

Emory S. Bogardus

This work is a scholarly survey of how societies have thought about themselves and each other, written…

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II

Various

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume V, No II is a nineteenth‑century periodical anthology that blends…

池北偶談

Shizhen Wang

竹葉亭雜記

Yuanzhi Yao

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2

Charles Eliot

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, written by Sir Charles…

Descripcion é historia del castillo de la aljafería sito extramuros de la ciudad de Zaragoza

Mariano Nougués Secall

Este libro es una memoria histórica y descriptiva del Castillo de la Aljafería, redactada por el jurista y…

A Handbook of Modern Japan

Ernest W. Clement

This handbook presents a systematic overview of Japan as a contemporary nation‑state rather than a historical…

The Audiencia in the Spanish Colonies As illustrated by the Audiencia of Manila (1583-1800)

Charles Henry Cunningham

The work is a scholarly study of the Audiencia, the chief judicial and administrative tribunal that governed…

Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early wares

R. L. Hobson

The Life of Gordon, Volume II

Demetrius Charles Boulger

The work is a biographical study of General Charles George Gordon, focusing on the pivotal years when he left…

The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances; Including Observations on Spinning, Dyeing, and Weaving.

Clinton G. Gilroy

The work is a scholarly survey of the origins and development of the major fibrous crafts, silk, cotton,…