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  • Chronological History of the Mosher Family
    William Mosher
    This history offers an insight into the generations of the Mosher family, who emigrated from Manchester, England to colonial-era North America.Charting the lives of some ten generations of Moshers, this work was first published in 1891. It covers roughly two hundred years’ of family history, and recalls the names, professions and other notable details of various ancestors. Inte...
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    10,71 €

  • Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
    Isabella L. Bird
    Isabella Bird spent much of 1890 roaming the exotic lands of Persia and Kurdistan, traversing the coast and secluded towns and villages, keeping this vivid, descriptive, diary of local life and culture.While much of Europe had industrialized over the century prior, the Middle East of the late 19th century had not undergone such a transformation. Isabella Bird traversed Persia -...
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    12,14 €

  • Siberia and the Exile System
    George Kennan
    George Kennan was an American journalist and adventurer, who traveled to Siberia in the late 1800s to investigate how Russian criminals and dissidents were punished with exile to remote lands.By the time Kennan traversed the Siberian countryside, villages and towns, Russia’s exile system had existed for several decades. His researches demonstrate how common the use of exile as ...
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    17,31 €

  • The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon
    Albert Samuel Gatschet
    'The fact that languages of rude and more primitive people are built up more regularly and often show a closer observance of logical principles than those of people of ancient civilizations . . . can no longer be doubted.'-Albert Samuel Gatschet, The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon: Letter of transmittal.The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon (1890) Volume II, part I...
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    33,25 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral s...
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    17,40 €

  • The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon
    Albert Samuel Gatschet
    'There is probably no language spoken in North America possessed of a nominal inflection more developed than the Klamath.'-Albert Samuel Gatschet, The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon (1890)The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon: Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume II, part I (1890), by Albert Samuel Gatschet, is a two-part document, second in the nine-p...
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    37,59 €

  • Meditations
    Marcus Aurelius / George Long
    Unabridged private reflections of the Emperor of Rome, on how one is to exist in a world of chaos. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and in the most accepted translation by George Long, is a book that belongs on everyone’s shelf.A favorite of Bill Clinton and John Steinbeck, and influencer of many others for 2,000 years, it is as relevant today to those in power struggles over emp...
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    16,43 €

  • Enchiridion
    Epictetus / George Long
    Unabridged version of Enchiridion, by Epictetus, and translated by George Long, with footnotes.  In this classic Epictetus teaches that philosophy is not just thought, but life in practice. Born into slavery, and later freed, he tells what he learned across his varied life both in paragraph and parable form. Included here are just the Encheiridion and Fragments portions from Th...
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    6,26 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Chump Change Edition)
    Oscar Wilde
    Unabridged version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, offered here for chump change.  Wilde’s only novel was a breakthrough of psychological horror in the Victorian age.Is it about the author himself and his life of destructive indulgence? Is it about the dark side of mankind? Or the ability to appreciate the pleasures of life?  Decide for yourself in this classic t...
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    8,40 €

  • A Dakota-English Dictionary
    Stephen Return Riggs
    'Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.'-Luther Standing Bear, Chief, Dakota (Sioux) Native Americans (late 19th Century)A Dakota-English Dictionary (1852) is the seventh volume of a nine-part series Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). At the time, the Dakota language consisted of three well-defined dialects: the Santee, Yankton, ...
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    37,76 €

  • The Cegiha Language
    James Owen Dorsey
    'Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.'-Crazy Horse, Chief Lakota (Sioux) Native Americans (1890)The Cegiha Language (1890), by Rev. James Owen Dorsey is the sixth volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). This comprehensive book is compris...
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    35,90 €

  • The Jews Under Roman Rule
    William Douglas Morrison
    This superb, illustrated history reveals Rome’s conquest and rule over Israel and Judea, and how the Roman occupation deeply influenced the culture, law and religious establishment of the Jews.Spanning about 300 years, from the mid-2nd century BC to the mid-2nd century AD, William Morrison’s investigation is thorough. Elements of this history is sociological; rigorous examinati...
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    14,93 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral s...
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    16,27 €

  • Society as I Have Found It
    Ward McAllister
    Ward McAllister was a gentlemen living in the mid-to-late 19th century; this is his commentary of the high society of the time, the parties and social gatherings of the elite in the USA and Europe.Well-travelled and educated in the arts of speech and charming others, the author recounts his memories of fine occasions attended by the monied and well-connected. He describes the s...
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    12,52 €

  • The Baron Trump Collection
    Lockwood Ingersoll
    This collection unites Ingersoll Lockwood's classic Baron Trump adventure stories in one volume.Filled with exotic flights of fancy, the Baron Trump tales feature the titular character - a wealthy boy who lives in Trump Castle. His actual name is Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, but for the sake of simplicity he chooses to go by his title of Baron Trump.The young fell...
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    15,61 €

  • John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides
    John G. Paton / John GPaton
    John G. Paton narrates his eventful life as a missionary to the New Hebrides - modern-day Vanuatu - in a frank and vivid manner. Beginning with his upbringing and education in Scotland, we realize early on that Paton carried unusual dedication and energy in his studies. Determining that he would become a man of God, spreading the word of the Christian gospel as a missionary, it...
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    12,46 €

  • Capital and Interest
    Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk / William Smart
    Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk discusses the history and principles of interest, offering piercing critiques of failed theories and implementations from past eras.The author’s investigations range as far back as antiquity and the Middle Ages; how civilizations of old dealt - or failed to deal - with interest in concept and practice. Interest is earned on existing capital, without the ow...
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    19,62 €

  • The Jews Under Roman Rule
    William Douglas Morrison
    This superb, illustrated history reveals Rome’s conquest and rule over Israel and Judea, and how the Roman occupation deeply influenced the culture, law and religious establishment of the Jews.Spanning about 300 years, from the mid-2nd century BC to the mid-2nd century AD, William Morrison’s investigation is thorough. Elements of this history is sociological; rigorous examinati...
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    24,03 €

  • The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778, Volume II
    Francis Burney
    'Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.'-Frances Burney, The Early Diary of Frances Burney (1769)The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778, Volume II (1889) began in Burney’s teen years as her personal account of life in Georgian England but was later published posthumously. Scholars regard her diary as culturally important bec...
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    27,16 €

  • The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778, Volume I
    Francis Burney
    'Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.' -Frances Burney, The Early Diary of Frances Burney (1769)The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778, Volume I (1889) began in Burney’s teen years as her personal account of life in Georgian England but was later published posthumously. Scholars regard her diary as culturally important bec...
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    27,05 €

  • The Philadelphia Negro Social Study
    W. E. B. Du Bois / WEBDu Bois
    W. E. B. Du Bois’s groundbreaking social study of black Americans living in Philadelphia at the end of the 1800s remains an outstanding and thorough example of sociology.Using knowledge gained from research of black neighborhoods during his time at the University of Pennsylvania, Du Bois was determined to create an all-embracing profile of urban black American society. Some thr...
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    26,16 €

  • The Master of Ballantrae
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'This tale of hate is probably Stevenson’s best book. . . Its blend of historical romance, travel fantasy and gothic nightmare makes it deeply pleasurable.'-Jonathan Jones, art critic, The Guardian, 2009The Master of Ballantrae (1889) by Robert Louis Stevenson is set during a 19th-century uprising in Scotland, weaving the tale of James Durie, who abandons his family and his tit...
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    20,76 €

  • The Light of Egypt
    Thomas H. Burgoyne
    In this thorough series of lessons, Thomas H. Burgoyne explains the spiritual realms and mysterious forces which exert influence upon humans and their souls. This edition contains both volumes.The inquiries made by Burgoyne are varied and eclectic; they range from ancient deities of Egypt such as Isis, to the behavior of the celestial bodies, to the emergence of alchemy in Medi...
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    17,63 €

  • The Republic
    Plato
    The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work, and has proven to be one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.In the dialogue, Socrates talks with various Athen...
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    36,85 €

  • Mark Twain’s Library of Humor
    Mark Twain
    'Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section.'-The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain’s Library of Humor (1888)Mark...
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    36,22 €

  • The Commentary of Zacharias Ursinus on the Heidelberg Catechism
    Zacharias Ursinus / Rev. G. W. Williard / RevGWWilliard
    Zacharias Ursinus was a Reformed Christian theologian who authored the Heidelberg Catechism, an early Protestant document about faith, written in question-and-answer format.Living amid the fractious religious upheaval that ensued following the Protestant Reformation, Ursinus was in the vanguard of theologians and Christian authors in Germany. The newly-established Reformed chur...
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    23,42 €

  • Carthage or the Empire of Africa
    Alfred J. Church / Alfred JChurch
    This history of Carthage takes us through the earliest legends, to the peak of the civilization, and finally to the wars with the ascendant Roman Republic.Greek legend has it that Dido, daughter of the slain Tyrian King Malgernus, founded Carthage in around 850 BC. The status of Carthage as a grand and prosperous city at the head of a coastal Empire whose commercial prowess was...
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    12,55 €

  • Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation
    George Washington
    Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation began as a school exercise in 1744 for George Washington, who became the first president of the United States of America.  Washington copied a translation of these rules by Francis Hawkins’, which was first published in England around 1640.The majority of the 110 rules originated from a French etiquette manual writ...
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    13,11 €

  • Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation
    George Washington
    Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation began as a school exercise in 1744 for George Washington, who became the first president of the United States of America.  Washington copied a translation of these rules by Francis Hawkins’, which was first published in England around 1640.The majority of the 110 rules originated from a French etiquette manual writ...
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    5,29 €

  • Winter
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    'Is not January the hardest month to get through? When you have weathered that you get into the gulf-stream of winter nearer the shores of Spring.'-Henry David Thoreau, Winter (1888)Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1888) is the compilation of the insightful observations of nature Thoreau made from 1841-1859. Rather than following a yearly chronological organization...
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    26,28 €


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