History Books

The Velocipede - Its History, Varieties, and Practice

J. T. Goddard

It is the design of this little work, not only to give a few simple directions to guide the beginner, but to give the history of the machine from its first origin, to treat accurately and impartially ..

Engravers and Etchers

Fitz Roy Carrington

When that most sensitive of American print-lovers, the late Francis Bullard, learned that I was to deliver at Harvard, each year, a course of lectures on the History and Principles of Engraving, he wr..

Ancient Rome and Modern America

Guglielmo Ferrero

The object of the essays collected in this volume, with the exception of three which recount three curious episodes in Roman history, is the investigation of the most important differences between the..

A Handbook of Old Japan, Volume I

Richard Hildreth

In collecting materials for a biography of the first explorers and planters of New England and Virginia, I was carried to Japan, where I happened to arrive (in the spirit) almost simultaneously with C..

A Handbook of Old Japan, Volume II

Richard Hildreth

The garden is the only place in which we Dutchmen, being treated in all respects little better than prisoners, have liberty to walk. It is commonly square, with a back door, and walled in very neatly...

Report of the Twentieth National Anti-Slavery Bazaar

A. W. Weston

We have barely indicated the sources and the motives, from, and by which, the donations to the Bazaar are obtained. Suffer us, on behalf of the immediate managers and promoters of this effort, to assu..

Ealing and Its Vicinity

D. F. E. Sykes

The village of Ealing lies on the northern and southern sides of the Uxbridge Road, and is distant about seven miles west from where once stood Tyburn Turnpike. The Parish of Ealing is not mentioned i..

The Beginnings of America, 1607-1763

Richard B. Morris

This is the first of a series of booklets containing the story of America, as told by those who were there, the eyewitnesses and participants. The selections which make up this booklet are a few of th..