Books and Manuscripts

Rupert T. Gould's Enigmas: Another Book of Unexplained Facts follows his successful Oddities with a further collection of historical mysteries, u...

Rupert T. Gould's Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts is a fascinating collection of historical mysteries, strange phenomena and apparently ine...

William Enfield's Scientific Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics is an engaging early nineteenth-century introduction to science a...

Evelyn Waugh's The Holy Places is a short account of his journey through the Holy Land, combining observations on the sacred sites of Chri...

Ida Pfeiffer's A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North is the account of the celebrated Austrian traveller's journey to Iceland and Scandinav...

William Wagner's Asgard and the Gods is a substantial and attractively illustrated survey of Norse mythology, retelling the myths and legends prese...

H. A. Guerber's Myths of the Norsemen is a wide-ranging and highly readable account of Scandinavian mythology, drawing principally upon the Poetic ...

Alice S. Hoffman's The Book of the Sagas retells for younger readers a selection of the great legends and heroic stories of the medieval Scandinavi...

The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant presents in English the dramatic histories of two of medieval Norway's most celebrated warrior...

The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald is the first English translation of Kormáks saga, one of the Icelanders' sagas and an important example of t...

John Ward's The Young Mathematician's Guide was a successful early eighteenth-century mathematical textbook, intended to provide students and pract...

Stanley Jackson's The Sassoons traces the remarkable history of the wealthy and influential Sassoon family, from their origins in Baghdad and the e...

An important and substantial resource for Scottish history, genealogy and antiquarian studies, Northern Notes & Queries was founded in 1886 und...

William Hickling Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico is one of the great nineteenth-century narrative histories of the Americas, tracing t...

William Hickling Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru is one of the great nineteenth-century narrative histories of the Americas. First publi...

Henry Tuke's The Duties of Religion and Morality is a concise work of Christian instruction by the prominent English Quaker writer and minister Hen...

A striking collection of traditional French children's songs and singing games, Vieilles Éternelles Rondes et Chansons was produced by the celebrat...

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, originally published serially between 1837 and 1839, was his second novel and one of the works that established his...

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, first published in twenty monthly numbers between October 1846 and April 1848, is one of the major novels of his ...

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy's History of the Ottoman Turks is a substantial history of the Ottoman Empire, tracing its development from its emergenc...

An attractively bound, full tan leather binding of Scott's poetry. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott; Including Introduction and Notes. The "A...

P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton's Bring on the Girls! is a lively and frequently irreverent memoir of their years in American musical com...

Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van recounts the remarkable true story of Miss Mary Shepherd, the eccentric and fiercely independent woma...

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame. illustrated with paintings by James Lynch, with an introduction by Alan Bennett. Published ...