History - Royalty

Salve Venetia, gleanings from Venetian history; vol. II

F. Marion Crawford

History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies

William Hickling Prescott

Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II. Written by Herself

Empress of Russia Catherine II

The work is a first‑person memoir penned by Catherine II herself, the celebrated Empress of Russia who ruled…

Danton: A study

Hilaire Belloc

This work is a scholarly biography of Georges‑Jacques Danton, the charismatic leader who rose to prominence…

King Henry V Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre

William Shakespeare

This volume presents William Shakespeare’s historical drama King Henry V as it was staged at the Princess’s…

Memorials of old Durham

The volume is a scholarly survey of Durham’s antiquities, assembled from the contributions of historians,…

The girlhood of Queen Victoria, vol. 1 (of 2): A selection from Her Majesty's diaries between the years 1832 and 1840

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

The work is a carefully edited selection from Queen Victoria’s own journals, covering the years 1832‑1840,…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5

François Guizot

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII

James Anthony Froude

The work is a scholarly narrative by James Anthony Froude that treats the divorce of Catherine of Aragon as a…

China under the Empress Dowager: Being the history of the life and times of Tzŭ Hsi

Bland, J. O. P. (John Otway Percy); Backhouse, E. (Edmund), Sir

This volume is a scholarly biography of Empress Dowager Cixi, presented as a chronological study of her life…

Richard III: His Life & Character, Reviewed in the Light of Recent Research

Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

The work is a scholarly biography of Richard III that sets out to reassess the Tudor‑era vilification of the…

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

Thomas Potts’s Discovery of Witches is a seventeenth‑century pamphlet that treats the witch‑trials of…

The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 2

Miss Pardoe

The work is a detailed historical narrative by Julia Pardoe that chronicles the final years of Marie de…

Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete

Louis Constant Wairy

This work is a memoir by Louis‑Constant Wairy, the Emperor’s chief valet, first issued in 1830 and now…

Queens of old Spain

Martin A. S. Hume

The work is a scholarly survey of the most politically influential queens of Spain, ranging from the medieval…

The Life of Cesare Borgia

Rafael Sabatini

The work is a historical study of Cesare Borgia, the flamboyant son of Pope Alexander VI, set against the…

Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630.

James Dennistoun

Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

Maud Stepney Rawson

The work is a biographical study of Elizabeth Hardwick, better known as Bess of Hardwick, placed firmly…

Memories of an Old Etonian, 1860-1912

G. Greville Moore

Caroline the Illustrious, vol. 1 (of 2): Queen-Consort of George II. and sometime Queen-Regent; A Study of Her Life and Time

W. H. Wilkins

The work is a scholarly biography of Caroline of Ansbach, Queen‑Consort of George II and four‑time…

Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents

Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

Memoirs of the Court of George IV offers a detailed chronicle of the tumultuous first decade of his reign,…

The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time

John S. C. Abbott

The work is a sweeping survey of Russian history, presented as a single‑volume “empire” narrative that moves…

London and the Kingdom - Volume 3 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

Reginald R. Sharpe

London and the Kingdom – Volume 3 is a scholarly chronicle that draws almost entirely from the Guildhall…

Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Complete Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe

Du Hausset, Mme.; Lamballe, Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan, princesse de

The work is a collection of secret memoirs attributed to Madame du Hausset, the lady’s‑maid of Madame de…