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A particularly attractive early edition of one of Richard Jefferies' best-known works on English country life and natural history. Drawing extensiv...

The Decameron is a collection of 14th Century short stories. The tales are said to be told by a group of seven young women and three young men, tak...

An uncommon early history of British horse-racing, tracing the development of the sport and the establishment of its principal race meetings, toget...

An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of nineteenth-century sporting anecdotes by the Scottish journalist and author James Glass Bertram (182...

A handsome uniformly bound group of four novels by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), one of the prominent novelists, clergymen and social commentators ...

First edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Fortunes of Nigel, published anonymously in 1822 as the work of "The Author of Waverley". ...

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...

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...

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...