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• Education -- Early works to 1800
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• Manners and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Religions -- Early works to 1800
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• Egypt -- Civilization -- Early works to 1800

• A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Compleat Gentleman: Fashioning Him Absolute in the Most Necessary and Commendable Qualities Concerning Minde or Bodie That May be Required in a Noble Gentleman (London: Printed for F. Constable, 1622), by Henry Peacham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Reformation of Schooles Designed in Two Excellent Treatises (London: Printed for M. Sparke, 1642), by Johann Amos Comenius, trans. by Samuel Hartlib (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Thoughts on Education (London: Printed for D. Wilson, 1761), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)
• Emile, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by Barbara Foxley (Gutenberg text)
• Emile (in English and French), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by Barbara Foxley and Grace G. Roosevelt (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Great Didactic, by Johann Amos Comenius, ed. by M. W. Keatinge (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Of Education, by John Milton
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • HTML with commentary at Dartmouth
  • HTML with commentary at Bartleby
• Peacham's Compleat Gentleman, 1634 (with an introduction by Gordon; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1906), by Henry Peacham, contrib. by George Stuart Gordon
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Positions Concerning the Training Up of Children, by Richard Mulcaster, ed. by William Barker (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The First Part of the Elementarie Which Entreateth Chieflie of the Right Writing of our English Tung, by Richard Mulcaster (zipped TEI at OTA)
• Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics v3; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Reflections on the Study of Nature, Translated from the Latin of the Celebrated Linnaeus (London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1785), by Carl von Linné, trans. by James Edward Smith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (first Worcester edition; Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1787), contrib. by Isaiah Thomas (page images at LOC)

• The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by F. W. Robertson (HTML with commentary at Fordham)

• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)

• The Instruction of a Christen Woman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2002), by Juan Luis Vives, ed. by Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, Elizabeth Hageman, and Margaret Lael Mikesell (HTML at U-Illinois Press)

• Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Advancement of Learning, by Francis Bacon, ed. by Hartmut Krech and William Aldis Wright (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Advancement of Learning (London: Cassell, 1893), by Francis Bacon (Gutenberg text)

• A Sermon on Education, Wherein Some Account is Given of the Academy, Established in the City of Philadelphia: Preach'd at the Opening thereof, on the Seventh Day of January, 1750-1, by Richard Peters (page images here at Penn)

• Dissertatio, de Ingenii Muliebris ad Doctrinam, et Meliores Litteras Aptitudine (in Latin; 1641), by Anna Maria van Schurman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Boarding School: Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils (Boston: J.P. Peaslee, 1829), by Hannah Webster Foster (Gutenberg text)

• Mentoria: or, The Young Lady's Friend (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed for R. Campbell, 1794), by Mrs. Rowson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• A Selection from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldūn, With Notes and an English-German Glossary (Semitic Study series #4, in Arabic with English and German notes; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1905), by Ibn Khaldun, ed. by Duncan Black Macdonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• An Introduction to Wysedome (London: T. Berthelet, 1544), by Juan Luis Vives, trans. by Richard Morison, contrib. by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Hartley et al., 1703) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry: Translated and Printed by William Caxton, From a French Version of Ramón Lull's "Le Libre del Orde de Cauayleria", Together With Adam Loutfut's Scottish Transcript (Harleian Ms. 6149) (EETS original series #168; London: Pub for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926), by Ramon Llull, ed. by A. T. P. Byles, trans. by William Caxton, contrib. by Adam Loutfut (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry, by Ramon Llull, trans. by William Caxton (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• The Flower of Battles, With Harness and Without, on Horse and on Foot (modern literal translation of 15th century Flos Duellatorum), by Fiore dei Liberi, trans. by Hermes Michelini (illustrated HTML at aemma.org)

• Brief Instructions Upon My Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver (HTML at pbm.com)
• The Flower of Battles, With Harness and Without, on Horse and on Foot (modern literal translation of 15th century Flos Duellatorum), by Fiore dei Liberi, trans. by Hermes Michelini (illustrated HTML at aemma.org)
• Paradoxes of Defence, by George Silver (illustrated HTML at pbm.com)

• The English Gentlewoman, Drawne Out to the Full Body: Expressing What Habilliments Doe Best Attire Her, What Ornaments Doe Best Adorne Her, What Complements Doe Best Accomplish Her (London: Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, 1631), by Richard Brathwaite (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Il Cortegiano: or, The Courtier, Written by Conte Baldassar Castiglione, and a New Version of the Same into English; Together With Several of His Celebrated Pieces, As Well Latin as Italian, Both in Prose and Verse; To Which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author (in Italian and English side by side; London: Printed by W. Bowyer, 1727), by Baldassarre Castiglione (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassarre Castiglione, ed. by Walter Raleigh, trans. by Thomas Hoby (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Il Cortegiano del Conte Baldesar Castiglione (second edition, in Italian; Florence: G. C. Sansoni, 1910), by Baldassarre Castiglione, ed. by Vittorio Cian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (London: Chatto and Windus, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walter Map: De Nugis Curialium (Anecdota Oxoniensa Mediaeval and Modern Series #14; text in Latin and commentary in English; 1914), by Walter Map, ed. by M. R. James (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ebrietatis Encomium: or, The Praise of Drunkeness ("reprinted from the scarce London edition of 1723"; New York: Privately printed, 1910), by Albert-Henri de Sallengre, ed. by Lewis M. Thompson, trans. by Robert Samber (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Philosophical Dissertation Upon Death, Composed for the Consolation of the Unhappy (title page has "Phliosophical"; London: W. Mears, 1732), by Alberto Radicati
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Hakluytus Posthumus, or, Purchas His Pilgrimes (4 volumes; London: Imprinted for H. Fetherston, 1625), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Purchas His Pilgrimage (London: Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1626), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Kitab al-milal wa-al-nihal: Book of Religious and Philosophical Sects (2 volumes in Arabic, with English title pages and prefatory matter; London: Printed for the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, 1842-1846), by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Karim Shahrastani, ed. by William Cureton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de Tous Les Peuples du Monde (first editions in multiple languages, with commentary), ed. by Jean-Frédéric Bernard, illust. by Bernard Picart (page images with commentary at UCLA)
• The Origin of All Religious Worship (with a description of the zodiac of Dandarah; New Orleans, 1872), by Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)

• A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A View of the Arts and Sciences, From the Earliest Times to the Age of Alexander the Great (London: J. Bell, 1785), by James Bannister
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)

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