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• The Table-Talk of John Selden (second edition; London: J. R. Smith, 1856), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Weller Singer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Table Talk of John Selden (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Harvey Reynolds (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• One Hundred Romances of Real Life (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), ed. by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Charlotte Smith and François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at Google)

• Juvenile Anecdotes, Founded on Facts, Collected for the Amusement of Children (7th edition; London: Harvey and Darton, 1825), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
• Variety: or, Selections and Essays, Consisting of Anecdotes, Curious Facts, Interesting Narratives, with Occasional Reflections (Philadelphia: Published by James P. Parke, 1809), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)

• The Dying Hours of Good and Bad Men Contrasted (1854), ed. by Daniel P. Kidder (PDF in Australia)
• Infidel Death-Beds, by G. W. Foote and A. D. McLaren (HTML at infidels.org)

• The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, by Joseph G. Baldwin
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

• Blood, Sweat and Tea (Creative Commons edition, 2006), by Tom Reynolds (text at archive.org)

• Among the Forest People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1898), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by Frederick C. Gordon
  • illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Among the Meadow People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1901), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by Frederick C. Gordon
  • illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Among the Pond People (New York: E. P. Dutton, c1901), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by Frederick C. Gordon
  • illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Barks and Purrs, by Colette, trans. by Maire Monica Kelly (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Beasts of the Field, by William J. Long (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Live Toys: or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets (London: Griffith and Farran, 1862), by Emma Davenport, illust. by Harrison Weir
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lobo, Rag, and Vixen, by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Queer Little Folks (T. Nelson and Sons, 1897), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text)
• School of the Woods: Some Life Studies of Animal Instincts and Animal Training (Boston: Ginn and Company, c1902), by William J. Long, illust. by Charles Copeland (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
• Wild Animals at Home (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Wild Animals I Have Known, by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text)
• Wild Animals I Have Known, and 200 Drawings (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Ernest Thompson Seton (HTML at LOC)
• Wild Animals I Have Known, and 200 Drawings (Toronto: G.N. Morang, 1899), by Ernest Thompson Seton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wood Folk at School (Boston et al: Ginn and Co., c1903), by William J. Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Waiting for Foucault, Still (electronic 4th edition; Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2002), by Marshall Sahlins (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• The Night Side of Nature: or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1848), by Catherine Crowe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google

• The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, by Joseph G. Baldwin
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

• Personal Reminiscences in Book-Making, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Cat Stories, Retold From St. Nicholas (New York: The Century Co., 1904), ed. by Marion Hamilton Carter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Two Years in the Forbidden City, by Princess Der Ling
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• The Mens Answer to the Womens Petition against Coffee: Vindicating Their Own Performances, and the Vertues of That Liquor, From the Undeserved Aspersions Lately Cast Upon Them by Their Scandalous Pamphlet (London, 1674) (HTML in Germany)

• "We Can't Kill Your Mother!" and Other Stories of Intensive Care, by Lawrence Martin (HTML at Lakeside Press)

• How We Elected Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time, by Abram J. Dittenhoefer (HTML with commentary at everythinglincoln.com)

• The Night Side of Nature: or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1848), by Catherine Crowe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (first edition; London: John van Voorst, 1852), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page images at burtoniana.org)

• The Political House that Jack Built, by William Hone, ed. by Kyle Grimes, illust. by George Cruikshank (illustrated HTML with commentary at Romantic Circles)

• To Know and To Care: An Anthology of Chassidic Stories about the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, by Eliyahu Touger and Malka Touger
  • volume 1: HTML at sichosinenglish.org
  • volume 2: HTML at sichosinenglish.org

• The Night Side of Nature: or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1848), by Catherine Crowe
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Tales of the North American Indians, and Adventures of the Early Settlers in America (London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844), by Barbara Hawes (multiple formats at Google)

• "We Can't Kill Your Mother!" and Other Stories of Intensive Care, by Lawrence Martin (HTML at Lakeside Press)

• Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life (London, etc.: Cassell and Company, 1901), by Hester Lynch Piozzi, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life (London, etc.: Cassell and Company, 1887), by Hester Lynch Piozzi, ed. by Henry Morley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• He Knew Lincoln (New York: The McClure Co., 1908), by Ida M. Tarbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How We Elected Lincoln: Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time, by Abram J. Dittenhoefer (HTML with commentary at everythinglincoln.com)
• Lincoln: "Como yo no Quiero Ser Esclavo, Tampoco Quiero Ser Amo" (in Spanish; ca. 1959), by United States Information Service, illust. by Daniel Núñez (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lincoln Story Book: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form, ed. by Henry Llewellyn Williams (Gutenherg text)
• Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller, by Alexander K. McClure (Gutenberg text)
• Wit and Humor of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Shrewesbury Pub. Co., c1916), by Carleton B. Case (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google

• 50 Cautionary Tales for Managers, by Peter Honey (HTML with commentary at HowTo)

• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text; 2.3 MB
• Curiosities of Medical Experience (second edition; London: R. Bentley, 1839), by J. G. Millingen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ye Medical Student's Primer (1901), by Martha Tracy (page images at Drexel)

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