History - Other

Travels in the footsteps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis

Sir R. Lambert (Robert Lambert) Playfair

Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7]: A dictionary, historical and comparative, of the heterodox speech of all classes of society for more than three hundred years. With synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.

Farmer, John Stephen; Henley, William Ernest

This volume is a scholarly reference work that catalogues the slang, cant and “heterodox speech” of…

Ten Boys from History

Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Kate Dickinson Sweetser’s Ten Boys from History is a compact biographical collection that gathers youthful…

A general history of the pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time

Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731

This work is a seventeenth‑century historical treatise that sets out to explain the rise of piracy from the…

Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

William R. Lighton

This work is a biographical study of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the joint commanders of the…

The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History

The Makers of Canada is a supplemental reference work that rounds out a twenty‑volume series on Canadian…

A history of the Japanese people: from the earliest times to the end of the Meiji era

Brinkley, F. (Frank); Kikuchi, Dairoku

This volume is a comprehensive survey of Japan’s civilization from mythic origins through the end of the…

The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time

Joel Munsell

The Every Day Book of History and Chronology is a reference work that assembles notable events for each…

Geographical etymology: A Dictionary of Place-names Giving Their Derivations

Christina Blackie

Christina Blackie’s Geographical Etymology is a scholarly reference work that sets out to explain the origins…

Suma y narracion de los Incas, que los indios llamaron Capaccuna, que fueron señores de la ciudad del Cuzco y de todo lo á ella subjeto

Juan de Betanzos

Este libro es una crónica histórica escrita por Juan de Betanzos, fraile y traductor que vivió en el Perú…

History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911]

Brewer, Luther Albertus; Wick, Barthinius L.

This volume is a comprehensive county history compiled by Luther A. Brewer and Barthinius L.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4

R. V. Russell

The work is a scholarly ethnographic survey of the Kumhar caste, a community of potters in the Central…

L'isthme de Panama Examen historique et géographique des différentes directions suivant lesquelles on pourrait le percer et des moyens à y employer; suivi d'un aperçu sur l'isthme de Suez.

Michel Chevalier

Ce volume est un traité d’histoire‑géographie consacré à l’isthme de Panama et aux diverses routes envisagées…

The symbolism of Freemasonry: Illustrating and explaining its science and philosophy, its legends, myths and symbols

Albert Gallatin Mackey

The work is a scholarly exposition on the role of legend and symbol in Masonic teaching, written by Albert G.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1

R. V. Russell

The work is a government‑commissioned ethnographic survey of the Central Provinces, prepared under the…

Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain

R. L. Hobson

The volume is a scholarly catalogue of Chinese Ming and Qing porcelain, compiled by Robert L.

The Story of Madras

Glyn Barlow

The work is a modestly sized historical sketch that positions itself between a formal chronicle and a travel…

La transformación de las razas en América

Agustín Alvarez

El libro es una extensa reflexión histórica y moral sobre la transformación de las razas en América, escrita…

The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields

Gilbert Slater

Gilbert Slater’s work is a scholarly investigation of the transformation of English village life through the…

The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2)

Dean C. Worcester

Dean C. Worcester’s The Philippines: Past and Present is a first‑hand chronicle that blends travelogue,…

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3

R. V. Russell

The work is a scholarly ethnographic survey of the peoples of the Central Provinces of India, compiled by…

The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct” is a contemporary, polemical account of…

An Account of the Conquest of Peru

Pedro Sancho

Pedro Sancho’s An Account of the Conquest of Peru is a seventeenth‑century chronicle that blends historical…

Ten Thousand Wonderful Things Comprising whatever is marvellous and rare, curious, eccentric and extraordinary in all ages and nations

The work presents itself as a sprawling compendium of the extraordinary, gathering together “interesting…