Select tales. Being a compilation of singular, interesting, remarkable and authentic narratives, ancient and modern. Selected principally from the most esteemed and popular literary works, European and American, the greater part of which have never before been offered to the public in book form.

14th. A remarkable vision of Charles the eleventh of Sweden.--15th. An awful and authentic narrative of the monster Benito de Soto, the pirate of the Morning Star.--16th. The first and last sacrifice.--17th. The tiger's cave; or, The melancholy and tragical fate of Captains Wharton and Lincoln.--18th. The first and last love.--19th. The Scottish landlady, and her lodgers ... by Mr. Galt.--20th. Traditionary anecdotes of the Countess of Stair.--21st. First and last love.--Agnes Fitzroy.--22nd. The death of Alice Bland ... by the author of the Tales of a pilgrim--23d. Herby and his twelve wives.--24th. The murder hole.--25th. A remarkable trial of murders.

Free masonry: a poem. In three cantos. Accompanied with notes, illustrative of the history, policy, principles, &c. of the masonic institution; shewing the coincidence of its spirit and design with ancient Jesuitism ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Primitive Christianity : or, The religion of the ancient Christians in the first ages of the Gospel ; to which is added an historical account of paganism under the first Christian emperors, etc. etc. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Thoughts selected from the ancient and modern poets.

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.

The history of Ireland, ancient and modern; taken from the most authentic records, and dedicated to the Irish brigade.

Revised ed. [-pir.]

The test of guilt; or Traits of ancient superstition.

Edited by his son, Joseph Strutt, jr.

Elements of general history, ancient & modern ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The history of ancient Greece, its colonies, and conquests; from the earliest accounts till the division of the Macedonian empire in the East. Including the history of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Buchanan's history of Scotland : in twenty books : containing: I. An account of its several situations and the nature of its soil and climate : II. The ancient names, manners, laws, and customs of the country, and what people inhabited the island from the very beginning : III. A chronicle of all its kings from Fergus, the first founder of the Scotish monarchy, to the reign of king James VI. of Scotland, and First of England.

Translation of Rerum Scoticarum historia.

The works of Virgil : tr. into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow, with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical and classical notes, from the best commentators, both ancient and modern, beside a very great number of notes entirely new. For the use of schools, as well as of private gentlemen.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ancient Greece /

"This volume...forms in the original a portion of an extensive work entitled, "Reflections on the Politics, Intercourse, and Commerce of the chief nations of antiquity." cf. Translator's pref.

The history of ancient Greece, its colonies and conquests from the earliest accounts till the division of the Macedonian Empire in the East,

Bibliographical footnotes.

A classical dictionary; containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors: : with the value of coins, weights, and measures, used among the Greeks and Romans; and a chronological table. /

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The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Greeks /

Vols. 2-10 have title: The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians ... and Grecians.