History

Name History
Description

A composition, memoir, or anecdote, or record of a place, event, or individual. Works in this category are often derived from the genre designation on the title page.

Titles

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
16327 Remarks on the Theatre, and on the Late Fire at Richmond, in Virginia. Alexander , Ann
 1812
7259 Remarques sur les anecdotes de Madame la Comtesse Du Barri; par Madame Sara G.... traduites de l'Anglais. Goudar , Sara
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1777
997 Retrospection: or, A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, Which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind. By Hester Lynch Piozzi. With a Portrait of the Author. In Two Volumes. Piozzi , Hester Lynch Thrale
 John Stockdale (London)
1801
25090 Rex redux: or, the history of the restoration of his sacred Majesty K. Charles II. Of pious memory, to his hereditary kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, on the twenty ninth of May, 1660. With the Precedent Actions and Passages, that contributed thereunto. Extracted out of the Earl of Clarenden's History, Sir Philip Warwick's and Ludlow's Memoirs, &c. Unknown ,
John Baker I [Pater-Noster-Row] (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1714
14558 Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, the antiquities of Rome. In two parts. I. A short history of the rise, progress, and decay of the Commonwealth. II. A description of the city: an account of the religion, civil government, and art of war; with the remarkable customs and ceremonies, publick and private. With copper cuts of the principal buildings, &c. To which are prefix'd two essays, concerning the Roman learning, and the Roman education. By Basil Kennett, of C.C.C. Oxon. The tenth edition. Kennett , Basil
 Sarah Hyde (Dublin)
Joseph Leathley (Dublin)
Abraham Bradley [Dame Street] (Dublin)
Thomas Moore (Dublin)
Cornelius Wynne [Dublin] (Dublin)
1743 The tenth edition.
21034 Selectae e profanis scriptoribus historiae. Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi praecepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. Haec editio Philadelphiensis prioribus certe emendatior, et juventati utilior--accurante Ric. Dabney. Mathew Carey (Philadelphia)
Bennett & Walton (Philadelphia)
Jacob Johnson & Benjamin Warner (Philadelphia)
Emmor Kimber (Philadelphia)
Edward Parker (Philadelphia)
Isaac Peirce (Philadelphia)
Kimber & Richardson (Philadelphia)
Abraham Small (Philadelphia)
1815 Haec editio Philadelphiensis prioribus certe emendatior
21035 Selectae e profanis scriptoribus historiae. Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi praecepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. Prioribus exemplar emendatius, quantitate syllabarum justa pleniùs notatum; atque in usum discentium meliùs accommodatum Ja. Ross, A.M. humaniorum literarum, nec non et Graecae Linguae in Academia Phil. professore. 1819
13710 Social Life in England and France, From the Restoration of Charles the second, to the French Revolution. By the editor of Madame du Deffand's Letters. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green (London)
1831
1224 Stories from the History of Italy, in a connected series, from the invasion of the Alaric to the present time. By Anne Manning. Manning , Anne
 Robert Baldwin and Charles Cradock (London)
1831
16240 Stories of the Spanish Conquests in America. Designed for the Use of Children. By the Author of 'The Beatitudes,' and 'Lessons Without Books." Vol. I. Sedgwick , Elizabeth Buckminster [Mrs. Charles Sedgwick]
 Leonard C. Bowles (Boston)
1830
25530 The ancient history of the Egyptians; Containing I. A description of the several parts of Egypt, with the most remarkable curiosities, as the obelisks, pyramids, Lake of Mr̆is, Nile, &c. II. The customs, laws, religion and manners of the Egyptians. III. The history of the Kings of Egypt. Herein you have all that is curious or useful in Herodotas, Diodorus Siculas, Pliny, Pompoius Mela, Strabo, &c. Intended chiefly for the use of young students in the universities, and such gentlemen as design not to make antiquity their principal study. Written originally in French by M. Rollin, late rector of the University of Paris, professor of Eloquence in the Royal College, &c. Done into English with additional notes. Rollin , Charles
 1730
14797 The Annals of Europe, or Regal register; Shewing the succession of the sovereigns, of Rome, Constantinople, Adrianople, Trebizond, Turkey, Russia, Germany, Lombardy, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Prussia, England, Scotalnd, and Ireland. Together with the bishops and Popes of Rome; from the foundations of their states to the present time: with the principal events in each of their reigns, and the time when they happened. To which are added tables of the cotemporary princes from the year 800. And an alphabetical arrangement of all their names, shewing the time of their accession and death; which concise characters of all, as handed down by the best historians. Unknown ,
George Robinson [ii] (London)
Elizabeth Newbery (London)
1779
2330 The antidote; or an enquiry into the merits of a book, entitled A journey into Siberia, made in MDCCLXI in Obedience to an Order of the French King, and published, with Approbation, by the Abbé Chappe D'Auteroche, of the Royal Academy of Sciences: In which many essential Errors and Misrepresentations are pointed out and confuted; and many interesting Anecdotes added, for the better Elucidation of the several Matters necessarily discussed: By a lover of truth. Translated into English by a Lady, and Dedicated, with Permission, to her Imperial Majesty the Czarina. Romanova , Yekaterina Alekseyevna (Catherine II)
 Samuel Leacroft (London)
1772
22136 The Arragonian queen: a secret history. Haywood , Eliza
 James Roberts [Warwick Lane] (London)
1724
25224 The behaviour of the cl-gy, as well as their traditions, destructive of religion. Or, a succinct history of priestcraft, Throughout all Ages. Containing, A general Introduction of the Institution of all pretended Revelations. - Remarks on Priestcraft amongst the Greeks: The strange Superstition of that learned People, proved to be the Ruin of Athens. - Remarks on Roman Priestcraft, their Augurs, Pontiffs, &c. - An Account of the Bramins, Bonzeés, Talapoins, and other Eastern Priests: with a curious History of the Pharisees and Sadduces among the Jews. - Popish Priestcraft unveil'd, particularly with regard to our own Island. Concluding with The Secret Intrigues of the Gown with all Parties from the Reformation to the Vicars Ap---cy. Dedicated to the Most Worthy Sect of Free-Thinkers. Unknown ,
Anne Dodd I (London)
Elizabeth Cooke [Cook] (London)
Joseph Crichley (London)
John Jolliffe (London)
1731
6698 The British remembrancer: containing, a new history of England, ecclesiastical and civil, from the happy state of the primitive Britons to the present time; with the character of each monarch, from William the Conqueror to his present Majesty King George II. inclusive. By Mother Bunch. Illustrated with the Heads of all the Kings and Queens from the Conquest. d'Aulnoy , Marie-Catherine
 1756
25933 The compendious history of foolish, wicked, wise and good kings. Viz. Saul, David, Solomon, Jereboam, Rehoboam, Ahaz, &c. Printed by order of the Long Parliament, 1641. The Second Edition. Unknown ,
John Baker I [Pater-Noster-Row] (London)
Rebecca Burleigh (London)
Anne Dodd I (London)
1716 The Second Edition.
24343 The disguis'd prince: or, the beautiful Parisian. A true history. Translated from the French. Haywood , Eliza
 Thomas Corbett (London)
1728
22114 The disguis'd prince: or, the beautiful Parisian. A true history. Translated from the French. The second edition. Haywood , Eliza
 Thomas Corbett (London)
1728 The second edition.
14380 The First Settlers of New-England: or, Conquest of the Pequods, Narragansets and Pokanokets. As related by a mother to her children. By a lady of Massachusetts. Child , Lydia Maria Francis
 1829
21306 The Grecian history, from the earliest state to the death of Alexander the Great by Dr. Goldsmith. Two volumes in one. Sixth American edition. Goldsmith , Oliver
 Mathew Carey (Philadelphia)
Bennett & Walton (Philadelphia)
B.B. Hopkins & Co. (Philadelphia)
Thomas and William Bradford (Philadelphia)
C. & A. Conrad & Co. (Philadelphia)
Kimber and Conrad (Philadelphia)
1813 Sixth American edition.
21304 The Grecian history, from the earliest state to the death of Alexander the Great. By Dr. Goldsmith. Two volumes in one. Fourth American edition. Goldsmith , Oliver
 B.B. Hopkins & Co. (Philadelphia)
Bennett & Walton (Philadelphia)
Mathew Carey (Philadelphia)
Thomas and William Bradford (Philadelphia)
Jacob Johnson & Benjamin Warner (Philadelphia)
C. & A. Conrad & Co. (Philadelphia)
Kimber and Conrad (Philadelphia)
1811 Fourth American edition.
21305 The Grecian history, from the earliest state to the death of Alexander the Great. By Dr. Goldsmith. Two volumes in one. Fourth American edition. Goldsmith , Oliver
 B.B. Hopkins & Co. (Philadelphia)
Bennett & Walton (Philadelphia)
Mathew Carey (Philadelphia)
Thomas and William Bradford (Philadelphia)
Jacob Johnson & Benjamin Warner (Philadelphia)
C. & A. Conrad & Co. (Philadelphia)
Kimber and Conrad (Philadelphia)
1811 Fourth American edition.
26138 The Historical Traveller: Comprising Narratives Connected with the Most Curious Epochs of European History, and with the Phenomena of European Countries. By Mrs. Charles Gore. In Two Volumes. Gore , Catherine Grace Frances
 Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (London)
1831
21185 The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. ; To which is prefixed, some account of the author's life. By T. Smollet, M.D. Cervantes Saavedra , Miguel de
 John Conrad & Co. (Philadelphia)
M. and J. Conrad & Co. (Baltimore)
Rapin, Conrad, & Co. (Washington)
1803

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