Ancient cities and empires: their prophetic doom, read in the light of history and modern research.

Mode of access: Internet.

A manual of modern history : containing the rise and progress of the principal European nations, their political history, and the changes in their social condition, with a history of the colonies founded by Europeans /

Mode of access: Internet.

The history of man, or, The wonders of human nature : in relation to the virtues, vices, and defects of both sexes : with examples, ancient and modern, alphabetically digested under their proper heads : the whole work being intermixed with variety of useful and divertive relations.

Abridged and rearranged from N. Wanley's Wonders of the little world--BM.

Principles of design in architecture traced in observations on buildings primeval, Egyptian, Phenician or Syrian, Grecian, Roman . . . and modern English domestic: in a series of letters to a friend /

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the transmission of ancient books to modern times : with The process of historical proof: or, A concise account of the means by which the genuineness off ancient literature generally, and the authenticity of historical works especially, are ascertained; including incidental remarks upon the relative strength of the evidence usually adduced in behalf of the Holy Scriptures /

"The "Process of historical proof" was published 1828 as an independent work.

The life and correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D.; late head-master of Rugby school and regius professor of modern history in the University of Oxford,

First edition, 1844.

The printer's complete guide : containing a sketch of the history and progress of printing, to its present state of improvement; details of its several departments; numerous schemes of imposition; modern improvements in stereotype, presses, and machinery, &c &c. /

"The following pages are from a larger work ... entitled The mechanics' gallery of science and art", of which only v. 1 was ever published.

An ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern : from the birth of Christ, to the beginning of the present century : in which the rise, progress, and variations of church power, are considered in their connection with the state of learning and philosophy, and the political history of Europe during that period /

Includes bibliographical references.

A new universal history of the religious rites, ceremonies, and customs of the whole world: or, A complete and impartial view of all the religions in the various nations of the universe both ancient and modern, from the creation down to the present time. To which is added, a geographical description of the various parts, the religious rites and ceremonies of whose inhabitants are described /

Includes index.

A sketch of modern history : from the destruction of the western empire, A.D. 476, to the close of the year 1818 : together with a concise view of the rise and progress of the arts and sciences, and of civilization in Europe ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Excursion to Kenilworth : with modern and ancient history of the town, historical account of the castle, full particulars of the gorgeous fête given there by the Earl of Leicester to Queen Elizabeth in the year 1575, description of the ruins in their present state, history of the priory, church, &c, the whole illustrative of the great northern novelist's matchless romance of Kenilworth and calculated to form a clear guide to the curious visitor, embellished with an elegant engraving of the Castle as it now stands /

Mode of access: Internet.

Plan and outlines of a course of lectures on universal history, ancient and modern, delivered in the University of Edinburgh,

Mode of access: Internet.

Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Giving the details of practical tunnel work; the constituents and properties of modern explosive compounds; the principles of blasting; the history of ... machine rock-drilling; and detailed descriptions of the various rock-drills and air-compressors in use ... with a history of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II. to the present time.

Plates I and II on one sheet.

Analysis of ornament; the characteristics of styles; an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art.

Mode of access: Internet.

An ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern, from the birth of Christ to the beginning of the present century. In which the rise, progress, and variation of church power, are considered in their connexion with the state of learning and philosophy, and the political history of Europe, during that period.

Mode of access: Internet.