Genre
Non-fiction.
From Marcus Aurelius’s intimate reflections to Jamaica Kincaid’s fierce postcolonial critique, this collection maps the fault lines of power, selfhood, and society. Spanning centuries and continents, these essential works—whether a war treatise or a presidential report—invite you to think deeply and live deliberately.
History
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn: Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long isla
A detailed history of the pivotal 1776 campaign around New York and Brooklyn in the American Revolution, including a full account of the Battle of Long Island: strategy, terrain, a
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Non-fiction
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith's foundational treatise on economics, where the division of labour, free markets, and the famous 'invisible hand' first take shape.
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History
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa: From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
An account of Lord Milner's controversial career in South Africa, from his arrival in 1897 through the Boer War to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902: administration, empire, and a d
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Humor
Roughing It
Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.
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History
Ancient States and Empires: For Colleges and Schools
A survey of the great civilisations of the ancient world, written for students.
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete
Ulysses S.
$8.50
History
The Governments of Europe
A comprehensive survey of European political systems by Frederic Austin Ogg, describing the constitutions, institutions and everyday workings of the continent's governments.
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History
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Mary Rowlandson's gripping first-person account of her capture during King Philip's War and her weeks among her Native captors.
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Essays
Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
A gathering of the essays, poems and lectures of Voltairine de Cleyre, one of American anarchism's most eloquent voices.
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Biography & Memoir
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
The complete diary of Samuel Pepys, an incomparably vivid, gossipy and honest record of London in the 1660s, from plague and Great Fire to the small daily pleasures of an ambitious
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Non-fiction
Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
Leibniz's chapter-by-chapter reply to Locke, cast as a philosophical dialogue on the origins and limits of knowledge.
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Biography & Memoir
Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions
John Henry Newman's celebrated spiritual autobiography, tracing with candour and eloquence the long development of his religious opinions and his path toward Rome.
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Essays
Essays on the Latin Orient
A historian's studies of the Crusader and Latin states of the medieval eastern Mediterranean, examining the Frankish rulers, islands and principalities of a fascinating borderland.
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Children
Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion
A scholarly study tracing the threads between the customs, songs and superstitions of modern rural Greece and the beliefs of the ancient world.
$8.50
Humor
Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects
A collection of political pamphlets and parodies, using satire, wit and pointed argument to skewer the issues and figures of their day.
$8.50
Non-fiction
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A classic single-volume dictionary of the English language from the renowned Edinburgh house of Chambers.
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Art & Design
The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete: Containing One Hundred Superb Illustrations, and a Page of Explanatory Letter-press Fa
A complete gallery of Gustave Doré's magnificent Bible illustrations, one hundred dramatic engravings with explanatory text.
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Non-fiction
The Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche's fierce polemic tracing where our ideas of good and evil actually came from.
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Biography & Memoir
Twenty Years of Hus'ling
A brisk American memoir of enterprise and hard graft, recounting two decades of the itinerant salesman's life — the roads, the deals, the setbacks and the pluck that carried them t
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Children
The Egyptian Book of the dead
The ancient Egyptian funerary texts guiding the soul through the perils of the afterlife.
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Non-fiction
Manual of Military Training: Second, Revised Edition
A comprehensive early twentieth-century handbook of soldiering, covering drill, tactics, equipment and the practical craft of military life.
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Non-fiction
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
A comprehensive official veterinary manual on the ailments of the horse, describing their causes, symptoms and treatment for a world that still depended on horsepower in the most l
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Art & Design
The Crown of Wild Olive: also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici
A gathering of John Ruskin's lectures and essays on work, wealth, art, and honor.
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History
History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time
William Whewell's landmark survey of how the natural sciences developed, tracing the growth of physics, astronomy, chemistry and more from antiquity to the nineteenth century as a
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History
The Religious Experience of the Roman People: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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Non-fiction
In the forbidden land : $b an account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan lamas and soldiers, imprisonment
A gripping first-person account of a perilous journey into forbidden Tibet, ending in capture, imprisonment, and hardship at the hands of Tibetan authorities: a classic tale of exp
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History
The Critical Period of American History
John Fiske's classic study of the turbulent years between American independence and the Constitution, when the young republic nearly came apart.
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History
The history of human marriage
Edward Westermarck's landmark study tracing the origins and development of marriage across human societies.
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Non-fiction
The King James Version of the Bible
The King James Version of the Bible is the landmark 1611 English translation whose language, cadence, and imagery shaped centuries of literature, worship, and public speech.
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Essays
The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
A king's own hand, unguarded and impatient: the surviving letters Henry VIII wrote to Anne Boleyn as desire, dynasty, and the fate of a church all began to gather around a single c
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Non-fiction
Simple Sabotage Field Manual
The declassified wartime guide produced by the American OSS, teaching ordinary citizens in occupied Europe how to obstruct the enemy through everyday slowness and mistakes.
$9.00
History
Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture
Henry Charles Lea's landmark study of medieval legal procedure, tracing how Europe sought truth through oaths, trial by combat, the ordeal, and torture.
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Business
Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs
A detailed early twentieth-century engineering handbook on building with concrete, setting out the practical methods, materials and economics of a material then transforming constr
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Non-fiction
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ
A collection of biographical accounts of Jewish people who converted to Christianity, gathering the lives and testimonies of many such figures from across the centuries in one devo
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Humor
The Comic English Grammar
A witty Victorian send-up of the dry grammar book, teaching the rules of English through humour, satire and comic example, so that the driest of subjects becomes an unexpected sour
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Non-fiction
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc
An illustrated study of American mushrooms — edible, poisonous and curious — combining careful description with the naturalist's delight in one of nature's strangest kingdoms.
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History
The Philippine Islands
A wide-ranging account of the Philippine archipelago — its lands, peoples, and history.
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Nature & Environment
The field and garden vegetables of America : $b containing full descriptions of nearly eleven hundred species and variet
A remarkably thorough nineteenth-century American reference describing nearly eleven hundred vegetable species and varieties: a gardener's and farmer's encyclopedia of what grew in
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Biography & Memoir
The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2): Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Ac
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, an old soldier of Cortés, recounts the conquest of Mexico as he lived it, this first volume opening one of history's great firsthand adventure narratives.
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Biography & Memoir
Emily Brontë
A biography of Emily Brontë, the fiercely private author of Wuthering Heights, seeking the life and inner world behind one of English literature's most singular and enigmatic imagi
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Non-fiction
The Enchiridion
Epictetus's compact handbook of Stoic wisdom, distilled by his pupil Arrian.
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History
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
A curated collection of primary documents tracing the early Christian church from the apostolic age through the great councils.
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Biography & Memoir
Rizal's own story of his life
The life of José Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, drawn largely from his own words: the memories, reflections and testimony of the writer and patriot whose ideas helped awake
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History
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
A narrative portrait of the court, favourites and intrigues of Elizabeth I.
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Biography & Memoir
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde’s long prison letter turns suffering, memory, vanity, love, humiliation, and spiritual reckoning into one of the most searching autobiographical works in English.
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Biography & Memoir
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Harriet Jacobs's searing first-person account of enslavement, escape, and seven years hidden in a cramped attic.
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Biography & Memoir
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
Timothy Dexter's gloriously eccentric self-published tract, famous for its erratic spelling and absent punctuation, which the author supplied by the page for readers to insert them
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Essays
Southern Literature From 1579-1895
A wide-ranging anthology of writing from the American South across more than three centuries, gathering poetry, prose and historical documents to trace the literary voice of a regi
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