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Famous Indian Chiefs - Their Battles, Treaties, and Struggles with the Whites (1909)

Classic and Historic Portraits (1854)

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Sir William Courtenay Knight of Malta Alias John Nichols Tom (1838)

How I Filmed the War - The Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, Etc. (1920)

Caesar in Kent - the Landing of Julius Caesar and His Battles (1886)

German Masters of Art (1914)

Randolph Caldecott - a Personal Memoir of His Early Art Career (1887)

Edward Wyndham Tennant - a Memoir (1919)

The Facts About Shakespeare (1913)

Napolean and Marie Louise - a Memoir (1887)

The Services of Supply - A Memoir of the Great War

Memoir of Captain M.M. Hammond, Rifle Brigade (1859)

Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (1854)

A Memoir of Jane Austen (1882)

Memoir of the Duchess of Orleans (1862)

The Empress Frederick - a Memoir (1913)

St. Augustine - a Biographical Memoir (1859)

Rupert Brooke - a Memoir (1918)

A Memoir of Sebastian Cabot (1831)

Reminiscences of Seventy Years' Life, Travel, and Adventure (1893)

Railway Reminiscences (1904)

Memories of a Musician - Reminiscences of Seventy Years of Musical Life (1913)

Pathfinders in Medicine (1912)

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 16

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 15

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 14

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 13

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 12

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 11

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 10

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 9

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 8

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 7

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 6

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 5

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 4

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 3

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 2

The Lives of the Saints - English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish and Welsh saints (1914) V 1

Chinese Biographical Dictionary (1898)

Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1888) Volume 3

Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1888) Volume 2

Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1888) Volume 1

Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings (1886) Volume 3

Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings (1886) Volume 3

Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings (1886) Volume 2

Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings (1886) Volume 1

The True Napoleon - a Cyclopedia of Events in His Life (1902)

Michael Collins' Own Story

Memoirs of the Baron de Kolli (1823)

Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia (1893)

The Life of Arthur Vandeleur Major Royal Artillery (1862)

Famous Turf Racing Men - with Anecdotes and Portraits (1882)

The Old Plantation - How we Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War (1901)

Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster (1882)

Anecdotes About Authors and Artists (1800)

Anecdotes of Great musicians - 300 Anecdotes of Famous Composers (1895)

The Story of the Borgias (1913)

Memoirs of Sir Thomas More with Utopia and his History of King Richard III (1808) Vol 2

Memoirs of Sir Thomas More with Utopia and his History of King Richard III (1808) Vol 1)

The Life and Times of Richard the First (1840)

Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England (1844) Volume 2

Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England (1844) Volume 1

Memoirs - Containing the Histories of Louis XI and Charles VIII Kings of France (1855)

King George and the Royal Family (1918) Volume 2

King George and the Royal Family (1918) Volume 1

Queen Mary

Recollections of Léonard hairdresser to Queen Marie-Antoinette (1912)

The Trials of Five Queens

Life and Reign of Queen Victoria

Charles II (1904)

Charles I (1898)

The Early Tudors Henry VII Henry VIII (1887)

Henry VIII (1902)

Mary Stuart (1905)

The Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor (1898)

Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn the Love Letters

Five Stuart Princesses (1902)

The Married Life of Anne of Austria Queen of France (1864) Volume 2

The Married Life of Anne of Austria Queen of France (1864) Volume 1

Anne Boleyn - a Tragedy - a Play (1850)

The Chronicle of Queen Jane (1850)

A Twice Crowned Queen Anne of Brittany (1906)

Memoirs of Life of Anne Boleyn Queen of Henry VIII (1850)

Queen Anne and the Georges sketch of life and times (1895)

Queen Anne and Her Court (1909) Volume 2

Queen Anne and Her Court (1909) Volume 1

Marie Antoinette (1909)

Marie Antoinette (1914)

A Princess of the Old world (1907)

Peter the Great (1897) Volume 2

Peter the Great (1897) Volume 1

The Life of Catherine the Great of Russia (1914)

Ivan the Terrible (1904)

Boche and Bolshevik-An Englishman in the German Army and in Russian Prisons (1919)

The Last Days Of The Romanovs (1920)

The minister of evil - the Secret History of Rasputins Betrayal of Russia (1918)

Rasputin and the Russian Revolution (1918)

The History of Hortense - Daughter of Josephine (1870)

The Boy's Hakluyt - English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery (c1909)

The Boy's Drake - Story of the Great Sea Fighter of the 16th Century (1910)

The Boy's Catlin - My Life Among the Indians (1909)

The Boy's Story of Zebulon M. Pike (1911)

Helen of Troy (1882)

The Story of Alexander (1894)

The Life of Alexander the Great (1847)

Nicolo Paganini - a Biography (c1911)

Beethoven - a Pictorial Biography

Handel - a Documentary Biography

Enrico Caruso - a Biography (1922)

British Musical Biography (1897)

Franz Schubert - a Musical Biography (1866)

A Biography of Solomon (1906)

Plato's Biography of Socrates (1917)

Virgil - a Biography (1922)

A Smaller Classical Dictionary Biography Mythology And Geography

Plato and Dionysius - a Double Biography (1947)

Cicero - a Biography (1920)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology - Volume 2 (1850)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology - Volume 1 (1850)

The Memorial biography of Dr. W.G. Grace (1919)

Lord Byron - a Biography with a Critical Essay on his Place in Literature (1872)

Anecdote Biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1877)

Henry W. Longfellow - Biography, Anecdotes, Letters, Criticism (c1895)

John Keats - a Literary Biography (1908)

The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer (1882)

Mr. Lloyd George - a Biography (1922)

Cecil Rhodes - a Biography and Appreciation (1897)

The Real Gladstone. An Anecdotal Biography (1898)

Gladstone - the Man - a Non-Political Biography (1898)

Imperial Hearst - a Social Biography (c1936)

George Washington - an Historical Biography (c1889)

Hans Christian Andersen - a Biography (1895)

O. Henry Biography (1916)

Florence Nightingale - a Biography (1913)

Al Capone - the Biography of a Self-Made Man (1930)

Capt. John Smith - a Biography (1858)

Daniel Boone, the Pioneer of Kentucky - a Biography (1884)

The Great Composers (1884)

Great Authors of All Ages (1879)

The Boyhood of Famous Authors (1897)

H. G. Wells - An Autobiography (1915)

Joan of Arc (1919)

Joan of Arc Volume 2 (1806)

Joan of Arc Volume 1 (1806)

Heroes of Insurgency (c1910)

Marshal Ferdinand Foch his life and his theory of modern war (1919)

Heroines of the Crusades (1853)

Australian Heroes and Adventurers (1899)

(Blind Heroes) Heroes of the darkness (1911)

Heroes of history and their grand achievements (1903)

Heroes of the Sea (1912)

Gods and Heroes of Old Japan (1906)

Legendary Heroes of Ireland (1922)

Heroes of the Plains (1883)

Unsung Heroes (1921)

Heroes of Aviation (1918)

Heroes of the Laboratory and the Workshop (1859)

Heroes of Science. Chemists (1883)

Heroes of Science. Physicists (1885)

Charles Darwin his life and work (1891)

Life of Adam Smith (1887)

Oliver Cromwell (1900)

Life of Lord Byron, and Other Sketches (1875)

The life of Cervantes (1905)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - a Memoir (1913)

Life of the Duke of Wellington (1884)

Charles Dickens the story of his life (1871)

The life of Richard Palmer better known as Dick Turpin (1839)

The world of King Arthur and his court people, places, legend, and lore

History of William the Conqueror

Henry VIII Volume 2 (1904)

Henry VIII Volume 1 (1904)

History of King Alfred of England (1864)

The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer. By Isambard Brunel (1870)

Nelson (1909)

Nelsonian Reminiscences (1843)

Captain Cook's voyages round the world (1897)

Sir Walter Raleigh a biography (1891)

History of Queen Elizabeth (1876)

Mary Queen of Scots a narravtive and defence (1889)

History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (1854)

A biography of Caesar (1900)

Napoleon The First, A Biography (1903)

Alexander The Great (1900)

Old Drury Lane 50 years' recollections of author, actor, manager Volume 2 (1881)

Old Drury Lane 50 years' recollections of author, actor, manager Volume 1 (1881)

Women novelists of Queen Victoria's reign; a book of appreciations (1897)

Queen Victoria a Biography (1904)

Some famous women of wit and beauty a Georgian galaxy (1905)

Daughters of genius a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric (1887)

A group of famous women stories of their lives (1914)

Men and women of Soho, famous and infamous (1903)

Lives of girls who became famous (1886)

Twenty-Four Portraits (1920)

Fifty Famous People, a book of short stories

Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates - True Stories of the Stirring Adventures (1917)

The Lives and Daring Deeds of the Most Celebrated Pirates and Bucaneers (1860)

The Story of Jack Ballister - who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of Virginia

Lives and Exploits of English Highwaymen, Pirates, and Robbers (1883)

Pirates (1922)

Partial Portraits (1894)

Portraits of the Sixties (1903)

Jane Austen and Her Times (1905)

The Greek Orators (1919)

Alfred the West Saxon, King of English (1901)

Charlemagne

The Life of Charlemagne (Charles the Great)

Early Lives of Charlemagne

Frithjof, the Viking of Norway, and Roland, the Paladin of France (1899)

Canute the Great, 995 -1035, and the Rise of Danish Imperialism in the Viking Age (1912)

Harald First of the Vikings (1911)

Christopher Columbus (1915)

Famous Voyagers and Explorers (1893)

The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius (1853)The Story of Marco Polo (1899)

The Travels of Marco Polo (1844)

Contemporaries of Marco Polo (1928)

The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World 1253-55 (1900)

The Life of Ferdinand Magellan, and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe 1480-1521

Balzac - a Memoir (1900)

The History of Herod (1901)

Oliver Cromwell (1889)

A Life of George Westinghouse (1921)

Life of Edmond Malone Editor of Shakspeare

Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas with Recollections and Anecdotes (1914)

Life of Sir Walter Scott (1870)

Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics (1852)

The Words of Wellington - his despatches letters and speeches with anecdotes (1869)

Personal Reminiscences Anecdotes and Letters of General Robert E Lee (1874)

George Washington - a Character Sketch with Anecdotes and Chronology

Anecdotes of Winfield Scott as Soldier and as a Citizen (1852)

Edison, His Life and Inventions

The World's Orators Volume 1

The World's Orators Volume 2

The World's Orators Volume 3

The World's Orators Volume 4

The World's Orators Volume 5

The World's Orators Volume 6

The World's Orators Volume 7

The World's Orators Volume 8

The World's Orators Volume 9

The World's Orators Volume 10

The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology Volume 1

The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology Volume 2

A Universal Biographical Dictionary (1850)

Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant (1902)

The Diary of Col John Blackadder (1824)

Victorian Novelists (1906)

Paul Kruger - the Life Story of the President of the Transvaal

Christopher Columbus in Poetry, History and Art

Studies in Biography (1907)

Famous War Correspondents (1914)

Epoch Men and the Results of Their Lives (1871)

Catiline, Clodius and Tiberius (1878)

Alfred the Great of Blessed Memory (1901)

Thomas Carlyle - The Man and His Books (1881)

The Biography of Satan (1924)

The Autobiography of Goethe

Dumas' Paris (1905)

Cook and the Opening of the Pacific Volume 1 (1911)

Constantine and the Conversion of Europe

The History of the Popes Their Church and State Vol I (1891)

The First Romanovs. (1613-1725) A history of Moscovite civilisation (1905)

Naval Heroes of Today (1918)

Will Carleton, a Biographical Study (1917)

The Carlyle Country (1904)

Short Biographical Sketches of Eminent Negro Men and Women

Negro Stars In All Ages of the World

Edgar Allan Poe - a Centenary Tribute (1910)

Edgar A. Poe - a Study (1921)

William Blake & His Poetry

Ashgill or the Life and Times of John Osborne (1900)

Life and Times of Henry Hall Dixon or the Druid (1895)

The Autobiography of a Beggar (1903)

Autobiography of a Farm Boy (1916)

Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson (1888)

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote (1883)

The Story of the House of Cassell (1922)

Recollections of Full Years (1914)

The Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton

A Prisoner of the Khaleefa - Twelve Years' Captivity at Omdurman

The Book of Jack London (1921)

Offenbach in America (1877)

The Beloved Physician Edward Livingston Trudeau (1916)

Sydney Rupert Hodge - the 'beloved physician' (1908)

Sketch of the Life and Writings of Ferdusi - a 10th Century Persian Poet

The Trial of Theodore Parker (1854)

The Life and Letters of John Brown

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave

The Memoirs of Paul Kruger

The Life and Career of Sir Henry M Stanley

Life and Explorations of David Livingstone

Tom Strong - Lincoln's Scout (1919)

Autobiography of George Dewey Admiral of the Navy (1916)

The Life and Travels of Mungo Park (1851)

Mungo Park (1898)

Life of Charles Dickens (1887)