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Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England: A Biographical Sketch
H. A. L. (Herbert Albert Laurens) Fisher
A mind of extraordinary subtlety and quickness turns its gaze upon the dusty, forgotten foundations of English law.
Gods and Heroes
Ferdinand Schmidt
A divine trickster steals cattle from a cradle, a grieving husband's song fails to reclaim his wife from the underworld, and a foolish boy sets the sky ablaze. These timeless tales chart humanity's fragile place beneath the gods.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 05 (of 15), German
Charles Morris
A treacherous queen forcing her co-conspirator to drink from the same poisoned chalice he held to her throat sets the tone for a sweeping march through European history.
In Quest of Gold
Alfred St. Johnston
Bound by a family debt that threatens their Australian cattle station, two young brothers venture into the uncharted wilderness, braving treacherous terrain, indigenous conflict, and ruthlessly opportunistic bushrangers in search of a hidden mountain stream filled with gold.
Lachmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi: The Jeanne D'Arc of India
Michael White
A young queen in rebel India rides into battle to reclaim her state, surrounded by schemers, traitors, and the advancing British army.
Mary of Plymouth: A Story of the Pilgrim Settlement
James Otis
Through the observant eyes of a Pilgrim girl, the harsh reality of early New England transforms into a quiet, detailed testament to human resilience, ingenuity, and community survival.
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters
Agnes C. Laut
Centuries of maritime ambition and wilderness conquest collide along the rugged shores of the Pacific Northwest, where brave explorers and fierce fur traders carved out a new realm.
Place Names in Kent
J. W. (John William) Horsley
Centuries of invasion, settlement, and linguistic shift lie preserved beneath the surface of everyday English place-names.
Redemption and two other plays
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Desperate choices tear through rigid lives when love, guilt, and social obligation collide.
Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Lynne C. Murphy
Tracing the evolution of rocket engines, orbiting satellites, and lunar landing vehicles, this narrative catalog surveys the technical artifacts that elevated humanity into space and preserved its material legacy.
Select Poems of Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier
In verse of unusual musicality, a Southern poet channels nature, love, and spiritual conviction to mount a defense of the human heart against a cold and mercenary age.
St. Nicholas: His Legend and His Rôle in the Christmas Celebration and Other Popular Customs
George Harley McKnight
Centuries of folk devotion, schoolboy pageants, and regional holiday customs transformed a historic bishop of Myra into the modern figure of Santa Claus.
The A B C of Mining: A Handbook for Prospectors
Charles A. Bramble
Out on the raw frontiers of the nineteenth century, survival and success hinged on understanding the earth’s hidden wealth through precise observation and hard-won practical science.
The Fairy Nightcaps
Aunt Fanny
A sick boy floats out his bedroom window on gauzy wings to attend a midnight celebration of wood-sprites in the Hudson Highlands.
The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan
Ralph Connor
Against the vast and wind-swept prairie of early twentieth-century Canada, a young Ukrainian immigrant must overcome a legacy of vengeance to build a life of his own.
The Herschels and Modern Astronomy
Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
A single family transformed human understanding of the heavens, mapping the structure of the cosmos using self-made instruments and unmatched personal devotion.
The Horse and His Rider
Head, Francis Bond, Sir
A masterclass in equestrian practice and military utility, this classic volume breaks down the subtle mechanics of horsemanship, replacing brute force with calm mastery.
The House of a Thousand Candles
Meredith Nicholson
An eccentric grandfather’s bizarre will forces a globe-trotting rogue to live isolated in an unfinished Indiana mansion, where hidden tunnels, armed prowlers, and a high-stakes fortune await him.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
Anthony Trollope
In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, a young aristocrat and an enterprising tenant farmer both seek advantageous marriages, navigating avaricious relatives, legal entanglements, and strict social divides to secure their fortunes and futures.
The lovable liar
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A mysterious letter and a five-thousand-dollar reward draw two wandering cowboys into a lawless valley where cattle disappear from locked pens and nobody tells the truth.
The Morgesons: A Novel
Elizabeth Stoddard
A headstrong young woman in 19th-century New England defies rigid coastal traditions, surviving domestic confinement, tempestuous passions, and family tragedy to forge a uncompromising sense of self.
To the American Indian
Lucy Thompson
Indigenous Yurok voice Lucy Thompson preserves her nation's high-born traditions, sacred ceremonies, and painful histories to counter decades of white misrepresentation and cultural erasure.
Trafalgar: A Tale
Benito Pérez Galdós
A young Spanish boy witnesses the horror and heroism of the Battle of Trafalgar from the deck of a massive warship, losing his innocence in the smoke of burning fleets.
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
A shipwrecked noblewoman disguises herself as a page, entering the service of a lovesick duke and inadvertently winning the heart of the grieving heiress he pursues.
War Brides: A Play in One Act
Marion Craig Wentworth
A young wife in a war-torn country refuses to yield her body and future to the state's desperate demand for new soldiers.
Wood Engraving
R. J. Beedham
A concise, hands-on instruction manual revives wood-engraving as a self-reliant, expressive art form, stripping away complex industrial methods to teach a beginner how to hold a tool, select the block, and cut lines that print cleanly.
A Child's Book of Saints
William Canton
A visionary medieval realm where stone angels sing, ancient pagan monuments harbor hidden truths, and humble pilgrims find paradise in their own backyards. William Canton weaves historical legends into intimate, childlike wonder, blending Christian folklore with the quiet beauty of the natural world.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler
Unknown
An executive’s direct dispatches from the precipice of continental expansion reveal a young republic wrestling with the legal mechanics of its own growth.
A Jacobite Exile: Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Spies, exiled nobility, and Swedish military campaigns converge in a broad historical saga of personal survival, political intrigue, and wartime honor.
A Jolly Fellowship
Frank R. Stockton
Two American boys set off on a winter voyage to Florida and the Bahamas, turning an ordinary convalescent trip into an unpredictable, sun-drenched adventure.
A Marriage at Sea
William Clark Russell
A midnight escape from a French convent school lands two young lovers on a fragile yacht in the middle of a gathering tempest.
A Rock in the Baltic
Robert Barr
A rash British naval officer fires on a mysterious Baltic cliff, setting off an international incident that ends in a Russian secret prison.
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War
Louise Mack
A lone Australian journalist plunges into war-torn Belgium, facing bombs, retreating armies, and German lines to bear witness to a shattered world.
An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
Martin Luther
A structured blueprint for faith translates ancient, fundamental Christian doctrines into a clear, everyday pattern for daily living, personal prayer, and moral responsibility.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1899: Volume LIV, No. 6, April 1899
Various
Human thought wanders from the terror of night terrors to the mechanics of international trade, continually striving to bring empirical order to the chaotic interior and exterior worlds.
Civics: as Applied Sociology
Geddes, Patrick, Sir
Cities are not arbitrary collections of brick and mortar, but living organs shaped by geography, historical sediment, and the ideals of the people who inhabit them.
Complete Classified Price List of School & College Textbooks. January 1915
American Book Company
Bound between modest paper covers, this comprehensive commercial index offers an extraordinary, granular snapshot of early twentieth-century American education and the commercial publishing infrastructure that quietly defined it.
Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
A young boy’s soul wakes up on the limitless Argentine pampas, where every blossom, bird-song, and wild beast kindles a lifelong wonder that no hardship can extinguish.
Felix O'Day
Francis Hopkinson Smith
A proud, ruined Irish gentleman walks the slick streets of New York, quietly searching for his lost wife while earning a humble living among antique dealers, expressmen, and parish priests.
From One Generation to Another
Henry Seton Merriman
Driven by an impulse of sheer self-preservation, a scheming British officer in India seizes upon a false report of his own death to discard a devoted fiancée, setting off a quarter-century of bitter betrayal and quiet vengeance.
Gargoyles
Ben Hecht
A hypocrite’s ambition and a city’s rot collide as turn-of-the-century Chicago exposes the grotesque gap between public virtue and private depravity.
History of Friedrich II of Prussia
Thomas Carlyle
A tyrannical father, a desperate mother, and a young prince caught in the crossfire of European geopolitics transform dynastic drama into an enduring epic.
History of the Plague in London
Daniel Defoe
A city buckles under a quiet, invisible killer as fear, superstition, and official mandates struggle to keep order amidst mounting devastation.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51
Unknown
A wooden wagon, splintered by endless prairie dust and held together by improvised iron rings, traces a grueling overland path toward the gold fields of California.
Knotting and splicing ropes and cordage
Unknown
A single misplaced turn in a line can reduce structural integrity by a fifth, yet a properly laid knot holds immovably under the heaviest strain.
Landseer: A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation
Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
An affectionate, structured exploration of Victorian animal portraiture reveals how a master painter captured the emotional lives of dogs, stags, and horses to connect deeply with the general public.
Life in a Thousand Worlds
W. S. (William Shuler) Harris
A mortal traveler is swept across the cosmos in a flash, discovering wildly varied civilizations—from giant trust-plagued worlds to winged utopias—before beholding the ultimate structural and spiritual glory of Heaven itself.
Life in the forests of the Far East (vol. 2 of 2)
St. John, Spenser, Sir
A British diplomat navigates swollen rivers, dense jungle precipices, and volatile local politics to map the uncharted interior of nineteenth-century Borneo.