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Color Standards and Color Nomenclature: With fifty-three colored plates and eleven hundred and fifteen named colors
Robert Ridgway
A systematic catalog of eleven hundred and fifteen named shades creates an orderly bridge between the human eye and the natural world.
Down-adown-derry
Walter De la Mare
A shadowy realm of enchantment, dreaming souls, and uncanny woodland spirits awaits just beyond the threshold of ordinary waking life.
Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding
Thomas Alfred Spalding
Understanding the early modern mind requires reconstructing the invisible world of its deepest fears, where the unseen realm actively shaped daily life.
England's Antiphon
George MacDonald
A literary journey through England's religious poetry, from the 13th to the 19th century.
Everyday Foods in War Time
Mary Swartz Rose
Navigating WWII-era food restrictions without sacrificing bodily health or household finances demands a fundamental shift from customary eating to scientific nutrition.
Falkland, Complete
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A gifted young man carries the memory of a lost love like an incurable wound, pursuing total isolation until a chance encounter draws him into a fatal, forbidden romance.
First Across the Continent: The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6
Noah Brooks
A daring journey into an uncharted wilderness reveals the vast scope and endless perils of the American continent.
Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California
Angelo Hall
A brutal stagecoach murder in the California Sierras sets off a multi-year chain of betrayal, flight, and quiet financial ruin across the American West.
Fugitive Pieces
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
A young nobleman's early verses trace the restless turbulence of youth, moving from ancestral pride and schoolyard memories to intense romantic longing and sharp academic satire.
Gloves, Past and Present
Willard M. Smith
A simple accessory of leather or cloth carries the weight of centuries, binding kings to their subjects, sacred rites to daily life, and raw hides to human artifice.
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail: Being the Adventures of Two New England Boys in Alaska and the Northwest Territory
Arthur R. (Arthur Ripley) Thompson
Seeking adventure in the untamed Yukon, two young New England brothers join their father and uncle on a perilous Klondike trail.
Hindustani Lyrics
Inayat Khan
An elegant window into the courtly and mystical poetry of Northern India, bridging human longing, divine pursuit, and the soul’s eternal journey through love.
History of the Ordinance of 1787 and the Old Northwest Territory: A Supplemental Text for School Use
Unknown
A foundational act of legislation shaped the American wilderness into self-governing states while forever banning slavery across a vast frontier.
History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814, vol. 6
William Francis Patrick Napier
Blood, mud, and mountain passes define the desperate final campaign where two brilliant commanders clash across the Pyrenees, deciding the fate of Western Europe through grit, strategy, and unforgiving violence.
Hunting Sketches
Anthony Trollope
A sharp, light-hearted study of Victorian society through its favorite obsessions, where human vanity and rustic enthusiasm meet across the muddy fields of the English countryside.
Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old: A Complete Life of Christ Written in Simple Language, Based on the Gospel Narrative
Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
A child’s eyes open to an ancient world where angels shine like the sun, quiet carpenters construct honest tools, and miracles unfold along dusty mountain roads without a single word of invented romance.
If I May
A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
A lighthearted, observant mind turns daily absurdities and childhood memories into sly, sparkling meditations on human nature.
Jack North's Treasure Hunt
Roy Rockwood
An iron-willed New England teenager travels to South America, braving industrial schemes, jungle predators, civil warfare, and geysers to forge his own fortune and unearth a buried treasure.
Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans
Edward John Eyre
A desperate, nine-hundred-mile march along Australia’s unforgiving southern coast becomes a harrowing study in human endurance and a searching inquiry into the catastrophic impact of European settlement upon Indigenous lives.
King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies: Turned into Modern English
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
An earnest search for certainty unfolds as a human mind wrestles with the limits of sensory experience, reaching through dialogue toward an enduring light.
Life in an Indian Outpost
Gordon Casserly
A solitary British officer watches from a mountain pass as the wild Himalayan forest meets the border of Bhutan. Beyond the isolated garrison lies an expanse of dense jungle, rogue elephants, and the quiet tensions of empire.
My Garden Acquaintance
James Russell Lowell
Observing the winged visitors of a quiet yard yields a rich, subtle education, turning a modest plot of land into a livelier and far more intriguing kingdom than the human world outside its fence.
Occult science in medicine
Franz Hartmann
A true medicine of the body remains impossible without a parallel science of the soul.
Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), vol. 1 of 2
Luís de Camões
A courage-tested fleet navigates unmapped oceans, battling treacherous storms, deceitful rulers, and hostile pagan gods to forge a sea route from Europe to India.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A traveler wanders through dusty galleries, decaying fortresses, and crowded foreign streets, wrestling constantly with whether grand art and historic ruins can ever truly touch a modern soul.
Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete
Honoré de Balzac
A slyly satirical dissection of domestic life reveals how the smallest frictions of a shared existence can slowly erode the romantic illusions of modern marriage.
Poems of To-Day: an Anthology
Various
These collected verses trace a nation’s changing spirit, moving from traditional inheritance and quiet landscapes to the sudden realities of modern war and mortal grace.
Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent
Archer Butler Hulbert
Narrow carrying paths across the ridge lines of North America once decided the fates of empires, armies, and wilderness trade.
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce
A man walks across an open pasture under a bright afternoon sun, only to vanish into absolute nothingness mid-step before his family's eyes.
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists, Volume 3 of 3
Unknown
A collection of essays by 19th-century thinkers explores history, race, language, religion, and politics, offering insights into the complexities of human society and the challenges of understanding the past.
Psychoanalysis and the unconscious
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
A fierce critique of Freudian psychoanalysis that rejects mental theories of human desire, arguing instead that genuine life stems from the bodily centers of the unconscious.
Pung Chow: The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling
Lew Lysle Harr
A classic tabletop manual balances procedural precision with strategic depth, demystifying a complex tile game through structured math and tactical advice.
Salt of the Earth
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A pair of down-on-their-luck prospectors attempt to swindle two oddly dressed newcomers in a deserted Western town, only to discover that the marks are far sharper than they look.
Secret remedies
British Medical Association
Beyond the glowing claims of miracle cures lies a quiet, devastating exposure: pennies worth of sugar, soap, and common lard sold as secret, lifesaver medicine to the desperate and vulnerable.
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography
Solomon Maimon
An impoverished Polish boy learns to decipher the world beyond his closed community, trading strict orthodoxy for philosophy and embarking on a relentless, perilous quest for intellectual freedom.
Study of Child Life
Marion Foster Washburne
A hand opens and closes, learning that its fingers can move against the world; from this quiet, physical beginning unfolds the entire arc of human thought and character.
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In the sun-baked wild, a man raises a golden cub to hunt by his side, only for a bitter conspiracy and a uncanny double to strip him of his home, his gold, and his identity.
Ted Strong's Motor Car
Edward C. Taylor
An ambitious young cowboy leads his loyal crew across the American West, trading punches with cattle rustlers, outsmarting train robbers, and chasing down high-speed adventure.
The Art and Practice of Silver Printing
Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
Silver printing remains the definitive technique for photographers seeking unmatched depth and tonal beauty. This manual preserves the meticulous chemistry and craft required to transform raw paper into a lasting, lustrous image.
The Awakening of the Soul
Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl
A newborn infant, cast adrift on an uninhabited equatorial island, grows up entirely isolated from human contact to discover the deep structure of the physical universe and the ultimate nature of the divine.
The Bridge-Builders
Rudyard Kipling
Engineers spend years subduing a vast Indian river to construct a massive railway bridge, only to face a sudden, unseasonal flood that unleashes both the violent waters and an ancient council of angry gods.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (June 1913): Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913
Various
An sprawling slice of early twentieth-century life captures a world pivoting rapidly between traditional isolation, classical antiquity, and the raw kinetic momentum of modern industrial power.
The Chief of the Ranges: A Tale of the Yukon
H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
In the shadow of the mountains, a young woman's heritage and a chief's vision collide against the brutal dominance of coastal raiders.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Driven by an exacting desire to lay bare every corner of his character, a solitary philosopher chronicles his triumphs, absurd moral failings, and deep persecution anxieties with unsparing candor.
The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860
Charles Duke Yonge
Constitutional stability relies not on rigid immutability, but on a state’s capacity to absorb radical socio-political shifts without fracturing its core legal architecture.
The Cry at Midnight
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
A late-night ski run near a spooky old monastery leads a courageous teenage reporter into a web of counterfeit piety, hidden rooms, and a high-stakes hunt for a stolen star sapphire.
The Daughter of Heaven
Pierre Loti
A centuries-old dynasty, a nation divided by conquest, and two star-crossed sovereigns meet in a high-stakes struggle for the soul of China.
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 02
Dante Alighieri
A living man journeys guided through the dark doorway of the damned, discovering that the ultimate punishment for a wasted life is getting exactly what one chose.