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Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

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#50036
"My country, 'tis of thee!" Or, the United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition.
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2015-09-22
Johnson, Willis Fletcher, 1857-1931; Habberton, John, 1842-1921 [Contributor] Read Online →
#47118
"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2014-10-14
Doran, Dr. (John), 1807-1878; Lowe, Robert William, 1853-1902 [Editor] Read Online →
#5402
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-04-01
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791 Read Online →
#62663
A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Modern Philosophy
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2020-07-16
Cushman, Herbert Ernest, 1865-1944 Read Online →
#69199
A boke made by John Fryth, prysoner in the Tower of London answerynge unto M. Mores letter, which he wrote agaynst the fyrste lytle treatyse that John Fryth made, concernynge the sacramente of the body and bloude of Christ
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2022-10-21
Frith, John, 1503-1533 Read Online →
#13265
A Book of Fruits and Flowers
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-08-23
Anonymous Read Online →
#20321
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them.
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2007-01-09
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 Read Online →
#65596
A Brief History of Printing in England A Short History of Printing in England from Caxton to the Present Time
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2021-06-11
Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1860-1940 Read Online →
#65585
A Brief History of Printing. Part II: The Economic History of Printing
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2021-06-10
Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1860-1940 Read Online →
#60091
A Brief History of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, London A.D. 1351-1889 With an Appendix Containing Some Account of the Blacksmiths' Company
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2019-08-12
Noble, T. C. (Theophilus Charles) Read Online →
#4247
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2003-07-01
Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621 Read Online →
#66254
A Briefe Discovrse of a Disease called the Suffocation of the Mother
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2021-09-10
Jorden, Edward, 1569-1632 Read Online →
#33904
A briefe discription of New England and the severall townes therein together with the present government thereof
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2010-10-25
Maverick, Samuel, 1602?-1670? Read Online →
#14999
A Briefe Introduction to Geography
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2005-02-09
Pemble, William, 1592?-1623 Read Online →
#37048
A Caution to the Directors of the East-India Company With Regard to Their Making the Midsummer Dividend of Five Per Cent. Without Due Attention to a Late Act of Parliament, and a By-law of Their Own
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2011-08-12
Anonymous Read Online →
#38542
A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2012-01-10
Cumberland, Barlow, 1846-1913 Read Online →
#35708
A Character of King Charles the Second And Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2011-03-29
Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695 Read Online →
#57811
A Character of the Province of Maryland Described in four distinct parts; also a small Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Maryland, their customs, manners, absurdities, and religion; together with a collection of historical letters.
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2018-08-30
Alsop, George, 1638-; Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892 [Editor] Read Online →
#43967
A Christian Directory, Part 4: Christian Politics
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2013-10-17
Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 Read Online →
#61703
A Collection of Seven and Fifty approved Receipts Good against the Plague Taken out of the five books of that renowned Dr. Don Alexes secrets, for the benefit of the poorer sort of people of these nations.
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2020-03-30
W. J.; Alessio, Piemontese, 1471?- Read Online →
#52046
A Constitution in Making (1660-1714)
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2016-05-11
Perrett, G. B. (George Burr) [Compiler]; Bell, Kenneth (Kenneth Norman), 1884-1951 [Editor]; Winbolt, S. E. (Samuel Edward), 1868-1944 [Editor] Read Online →
#17008
A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2005-11-05
James I, King of England, 1566-1625; Goldsmid, Edmund [Editor] Read Online →
#55538
A Cruising Voyage Around the World
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2017-09-13
Rogers, Woodes, -1732; Manwaring, G. E. (George Ernest), 1882-1939 [Annotator] Read Online →
#45891
A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2)
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2014-06-05
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892 Read Online →
#70741
A decade of negro extension work, 1914-1924
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2023-05-11
Martin, O. B. (Oscar Baker), 1870-1935 Read Online →
#18682
A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders of the Nauie of her most excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in their voyage and expedition for Portingal, to take and arrest in the mouth of the Riuer of Lisbone, certaine Shippes of corne and other prouisions of warre bound for the said Citie Prepared for the seruices of the King of Spaine, in the Ports and Prouinces within and about the Sownde, the 30. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1589. and of her Maiesties raigne the one and thirtie
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2006-06-25
England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) Read Online →
#64077
A Description of a New-Invented Stove-Grate Shewing Its Uses and Advantages Over All Others, Both in Point of Expence, and Every Purpose of a Chamber Fire
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2020-12-18
Durno, J. Read Online →
#58308
A Description of Greenland
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2018-11-18
Egede, Hans, 1686-1758 Read Online →
#55269
A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria Shewing its Excellent Government: Wherein The Inhabitants Live in Great Prosperity, Health and Happinesse; the King Obeyed, the Nobles Honoured; and All Good Men Respected, Vice Punished, and Vertue Rewarded
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2017-08-05
Plattes, Gabriel, 1600?-1644; Constable, Francis, -1647 [Other]; Hartlib, Samuel, 1600?-1662 [Other] Read Online →
#39929
A Dialogue upon the Gardens of the Right Honorouble the Lord Viscount Cobham at Stow in Buckinghamshire
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2012-06-06
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804; Hunt, John Dixon, 1936- [Editor] Read Online →
#38444
A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759)
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2011-12-30
Sheridan, Thomas, 1719-1788; Mohrmann, G. P., 1925- [Editor] Read Online →
#62299
A Discourse on Trade, and Other Matters Relative to it
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2020-06-01
Cary, John, -1720? Read Online →
#11136
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-02-01
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 Read Online →
#5710
A Dissertation on Horses Wherein It is Demonstrated, by Matters of Fact, as Well as from the Principles of Philosophy, That Innate Qualities Do Not Exist, and That the Excellence of This Animal is Altogether Mechanical and Not in the Blood
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-05-01
Osmer, William Read Online →
#61910
A Funeral Sermon Preach'd on the Decease of the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Cutts Late Wife of the Right Honourable the Lord Cutts, on the 5th of December, 1697, at Kensington Church
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2020-04-24
Wigan, William, -1700 Read Online →
#14984
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2005-02-08
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813 Read Online →
#12514
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-06-01
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813 Read Online →
#13225
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-08-19
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813 Read Online →
#13287
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-08-25
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813 Read Online →
#13366
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-09-03
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813 Read Online →
#13055
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-07-30
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813 Read Online →
#13130
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-08-07
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813 Read Online →
#14423
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-12-22
Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813 Read Online →
#40580
A general history of the pyrates
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2012-08-25
Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 [Dubious author] Read Online →
#49274
A Guide to the Exhibition of English Medals
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2015-06-25
British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals; Grueber, Herbert A. (Herbert Appold), 1846-1927 Read Online →
#7064
A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2004-12-01
Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 Read Online →
#62240
A History of Chester Cathedral with biographical notices of the Bishops and Deans
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2020-05-26
Hicklin, John Read Online →
#73128
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2024-03-09
Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933 Read Online →
#28546
A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 1 (of 6)
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2009-04-09
Ranke, Leopold von, 1795-1886 Read Online →
#70730
A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 2 (of 6)
Language: English · Gutenberg release: 2023-05-10
Ranke, Leopold von, 1795-1886 Read Online →