Genre
Non-fiction.
At dot books, our non-fiction shelves hum with stories of real-life adventure, intellectual quests, and forgotten histories. From the philosophical masterpiece Critique of Pure Reason to the swashbuckling suppression of piracy in Borneo and the intimate Choctaw Freedmen, every volume is a doorway to a vivid, true world. Whether you’re drawn to grand ideas or human dramas, you’ll find a book here that stays with you long after the last page.
History
History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4): Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government
The opening volume of the official British history of the South African War of 1899 to 1902, compiled by government direction: the origins, opening moves, and early campaigns of th
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Fiction
The Long Roll
Mary Johnston's sweeping Civil War novel following Confederate soldiers, including the campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, through the ordeal of the American war.
$9.00
Classics
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius, awaiting execution, is visited by Philosophy herself, who consoles him with timeless reflections on fortune, happiness, and the highest good.
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Art & Design
A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Clara Erskine Clement Waters's accessible survey of the great arts — painting, sculpture and architecture — written to guide beginners through the story of human creativity.
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Non-fiction
Manures and the principles of manuring
A thorough treatise on manures and the science of enriching the soil.
$9.00
Non-fiction
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
Peter Mark Roget's landmark thesaurus organises the English language by idea rather than alphabet, an ingenious map of meaning that has helped writers find the right word for well
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History
An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church
Henry Charles Lea's landmark history of clerical celibacy, tracing the long and contested development of the Church's discipline of the unmarried priesthood.
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History
Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant; Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
John Foxe's famous Book of Martyrs recounts the lives, sufferings and deaths of Christian martyrs, above all the Protestants of the Reformation, a work that shaped English religiou
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Non-fiction
Washington Confidential
A sensational mid-century exposé of the American capital, pulling back the curtain on politics, power, money and vice in Washington.
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Classics
Lysistrata
Aristophanes' riotous anti-war comedy, in which the women of Greece stage a sex strike to force their husbands to lay down arms.
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History
The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic
A meticulous study of how the Roman Republic actually voted.
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Crime
The Ambulance Made Two Trips
A short work whose brisk, arresting title promises incident and consequence.
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Biography & Memoir
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
The classic fictionalised memoir of a legendary Wall Street speculator, still revered as one of the wisest books ever written about markets, trading psychology, and the eternal fol
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Adventure
Anabasis
Xenophon’s classic march narrative follows a stranded Greek army through retreat, leadership crisis, and survival.
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Non-fiction
German composition : $b A theoretical and practical guide to the art of translating English prose into German
A practical textbook for students of German, offering theory, examples and exercises in the art of translating English prose into idiomatic German.
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Crime
The Big Fix
A story whose title promises intrigue and the solving of a large problem, a tale of scheming, stakes, and the effort to set something right or put it over.
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Non-fiction
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin's world-altering argument that life's endless forms arose through descent with modification and natural selection — the book that remade our understanding of nature
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Non-fiction
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
W.
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Classics
Phaedrus
Plato's luminous dialogue on love, beauty, and the written word, staged as a conversation beneath a plane tree by the Ilissus.
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Non-fiction
Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners
A late nineteenth century guide to health, marriage, morality, and the facts of life, written to instruct a rising generation.
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History
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
The second volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan continues his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their ruling houses, chivalry and antiquities
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Art & Design
Woodwork Joints: How They Are Set Out, How Made and Where Used
A clear, practical handbook of the woodworker's essential joints — how each is marked out, cut and fitted, and the tasks for which it is best suited.
$9.50
Business
A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day
A classic survey of economic thought, tracing the development of theory from the Physiocrats through the great schools of political economy to the modern era.
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Classics
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Boccaccio's dazzling collection of a hundred tales, told by young Florentines sheltering from the plague.
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Biography & Memoir
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
A Boer general's firsthand account of the South African War, written by a commander who fought the British in the field and lived to set the campaign down in his own plain, unflinc
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Historical Fiction
Quintus Claudius
A historical romance of imperial Rome, bringing the intrigues, splendour, and dangers of the ancient city to life.
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History
The Sovereignty of the Sea
A historical study of the long contest over control of the seas, tracing the claims, disputes, and legal battles by which nations asserted dominion over the waters around their coa
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History
A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day
Douglas Hyde's landmark survey of Irish literature from ancient bardic tradition to modern times.
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Art & Design
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
An illustrated tour of the great royal palaces and gardens of France, from Versailles and Fontainebleau to the châteaux of the Loire.
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Classics
Carmilla
J.
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Crime
Celebrated Crimes
A vivid collection of true and legendary crimes from European history, retold with a novelist's flair for drama and character.
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Non-fiction
A Dictionary of Islam
A comprehensive nineteenth-century reference work on the religion, doctrines, rites, and terminology of Islam, arranged for ready consultation.
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History
Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus's monumental history of the Jewish people, from the creation of the world through the biblical narrative to the eve of revolt against Rome.
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Art & Design
The Handbook to English Heraldry
A clear, systematic guide to the language and design of English coats of arms.
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History
Shakespearean Playhouses
A pioneering history of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres, reconstructing the playhouses where Shakespeare's dramas first came alive, from the Globe to the Fortune and beyond.
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Biography & Memoir
My Recollections of Lord Byron
An intimate memoir of the poet Lord Byron by one who knew him closely, drawing on personal memory and the testimony of others who shared his life.
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Nature & Environment
The Book of the National Parks
An early, richly detailed celebration of America's national parks, written to help readers understand and cherish these wild landscapes.
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Non-fiction
The Parables of Our Lord
A thoughtful study of the parables Jesus told, drawing out the meaning and imagery of these short, enduring stories.
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Non-fiction
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique
A practical laboratory manual from the era when bacteriology was young, setting out the methods, apparatus and procedures for culturing and studying microorganisms, written to guid
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Fiction
The Shunned House
H.
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Classics
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
Kate Chopin's landmark novel of a woman's sensual and spiritual awakening, gathered with short stories that made her a pioneer of American literature.
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Biography & Memoir
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
Elizabeth Cady Stanton looks back across a long life at the center of the fight for women's rights.
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Art & Design
The Tapestry Book
An engaging history and appreciation of tapestry, tracing the great weavings of Europe and the stories they tell.
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Non-fiction
Vegetable Teratology
A nineteenth-century work of botanical science devoted to the abnormal and monstrous forms plants can take.
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Non-fiction
Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie
Thomas Tusser's celebrated Tudor manual of farming and household wisdom, set out in memorable rhyming verse.
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Non-fiction
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein's austere masterpiece on language, logic and the limits of what can be said.
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History
Poine
A short literary work whose title carries the old Greek weight of penalty and requital.
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Classics
The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle
Aristotle's foundational inquiry into how a human life should be lived, and what it means to flourish.
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