History - Royalty

The Tower of London, (Vol. 2 of 2)

Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower

China Revolutionized

John Stuart Thomson

The book is a sweeping historical study of the 1911‑1912 Chinese Revolution, written by John Stuart Thomson.

The love-affairs of the Condés (1530-1740)

H. Noel Williams

The work is a scholarly survey of the Condé dynasty, tracing its principal figures from the early…

Sixty Years a Queen: The Story of Her Majesty's Reign

Sir Herbert Maxwell

Sir Herbert Maxwell’s Sixty Years a Queen offers a sweeping, chronologically organized portrait of Queen…

Farmer George, Volume 2

Lewis Melville

The work is a scholarly examination of the political landscape of Great Britain during the reign of George…

Florentine villas

Janet Ross

The work is a scholarly travel‑guide to the villas that crown the hills around Florence, a subject the author…

The Aristocracy of London: Part I: Kensington Titled, Untitled, Professional, & Commercial

Anonymous

The work is a meticulous register of the London aristocracy as it stood in the mid‑nineteenth century,…

Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete

Madame de Montespan

The work is a first‑person memoir by Françoise‑Athénaïs de Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan, the…

Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day

Ferdinand Gregorovius

This volume is a scholarly reconstruction of Lucrezia Borgia’s life drawn from the very documents and letters…

Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Or, Memoirs of the Life and Character of Henry the Fifth, as Prince of Wales and King of England

James Endell Tyler

James Endell Tyler’s work is a detailed memoir of Henry V, tracing the monarch from his accession as Henry of…

Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete

Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

The work is a sprawling memoir and correspondence collection that brings together the letters, anecdotes, and…

The Kaiser's Memoirs

German Emperor William II

The Kaiser's Memoirs is an autobiographical account by William II, the German Emperor who ruled from 1888 to…

Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France

Parker, Gilbert; Bryan, Claude Glennon

Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2)

Walter H. Tregellas

Walter H. Tregellas’s two‑volume Cornish Worthies is a biographical compendium that celebrates the men and…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55, 1683-1690 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

This volume is a meticulously compiled anthology of primary sources that illuminate the Philippines between…

Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna

La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna is a memoir‑type collection by the Comte de La…

Women of Belgium: Turning Tragedy to Triumph

Charlotte Kellogg

The work is a contemporary account of World War I relief efforts in Belgium, written by Charlotte Kellogg…

The Book of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1891

Trinity College

The volume is a commemorative history of Trinity College Dublin, produced for the tercentenary celebrations…

History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814

M. Mignet

This work is a nineteenth‑century historical survey of the French Revolution, written by…

Tiberius the Tyrant

John Charles Tarver

John Charles Tarver’s work is a scholarly survey of the early imperial period, concentrating on the reign of…

Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

Imbert de Saint-Amand

The work is a sweeping historical narrative that charts the rapid disintegration of the ancien régime between…

The castles and abbeys of England; Vol. 1 of 2 from the national records, early chronicles, and other standard authors

William Beattie

King Richard II

William Shakespeare

Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1587