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• Évelina : roman (Chez Leprieur ..., 1795), by Fanny Burney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Évelina : roman (Chez Leprieur ..., 1795), by Fanny Burney (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Daisy's Aunt (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, c1910), by E. F. Benson (Gutenberg text and illusrated HTML)
• Maailmankaupunki: Romaani ("The Metropolis" in Finnish; 1911), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• The Metropolis, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Democracy: An American Novel, by Henry Adams (Gutenberg text)
• The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edith Wharton (Gutenberg text)
• The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gutenberg text)
• The Beautiful and Damned (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text)
• The Eustace Diamonds (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912), by Anthony Trollope, illust. by George Willis Bardwell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Moneychangers, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Rahanvaihtajat (The Moneychangers translated into Finnish; 1915), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg text)
• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• Democracy; an American novel. (H. Holt and company, 1908), by Henry Adams, Clarence King, and John Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The glimpses of the moon (Collier Books/Macmillan Pub. Co., 1994), by Edith Wharton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mrs. Clyde; the story of a social career (D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Julien Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evelina; or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world. (J. M. Dent and company, 1903), by Fanny Burney and R. Brimley Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democracy, an American novel. (Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Henry Adams, Clarence King, and John Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eustace diamonds. (Dodd, Mead, 1915), by Anthony Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rise of Silas Lapham (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1884), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Democracy : an American novel. (H. Holt and Company, 1880), by Henry Adams, Clarence King, and John Hay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The whirl : a romance of Washington society (Dodd, Mead, 1909), by Molly Elliot Seawell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Whirl: A Romance of Washington Society, by Foxcroft Davis, illust. by Harrison Fisher and Martin Justice (Gutenberg ebook)

• Bab: A Sub-Deb (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1917), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Evelina (based on the 1903 Macmillan edition, with additional illustrations from other editions), by Fanny Burney, contrib. by Austin Dobson, illust. by Hugh Thomson, W. Cubitt Cooke, and Arthur Rackham (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World, by Fanny Burney
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  • Gutenberg text
• Evelina (Derby & Jackson, 1857), by Fanny Burney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evelina; or, The history of a young lady's entrance into the world. (J. M. Dent and company, 1903), by Fanny Burney and R. Brimley Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miss Varney's experience : and other stories (H.L. Kilner & Co., Publishers, 1901), by Eleanor C. Donnelly, Mary Genevieve Kilpatrick, and H.L. Kilner & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• As Others See Us: Being the Diary of a Canadian Debutante, by W. H. P. Jarvis, illust. by Alfred Morton Wickson (Gutenberg ebook)

• A debutante in New York society : her illusions and what became of them (D. Appleton, 1888), by Abby Buchanan Longstreet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sam (W. J. Watt & company, 1915), by E. J. Rath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sam, by E. J. Rath, illust. by Will Grefé (Gutenberg ebook)

• Helen (Macmillan and co., ltd.;, 1896), by Maria Edgeworth, A. A. Turbayne, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Christine M. Demain Hammond, and R. & R. Clark (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Truth Dexter [a novel] (Little, Brown, and Company, 1901), by Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Amy M. Sacker, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plato in twelve volumes (Harvard University Press ;, 1914), by Plato, Paul Shorey, Robert Gregg Bury, W. R. M. Lamb, and Harold North Fowler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kant's Schriften (Berlin : Georg Reimer, 1902-<2020>, 1902), by Immanuel Kant, Eduard Gerresheim, Katharina Holger, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The revelation to the monk of Evesham abbey in the year of Our Lord eleven hundred ninety-six, concerning the places of purgatory and paradise (J. McBride, 1909), by Valerian pseud. of Harold and Zoë Paget Paget (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionarii Calepini, octolinguis, et nouissime recogniti, plurimisque dictionibus et variis significationibus aucti, ac diligentissime emendati : altera pars. (sumptibus Caldorianae Societatis, 1620), by Ambrogio Calepino, Jean Passerat, Pedro González de Mendoza, and Societé Caldoriene (Colonia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Casp. Bartholini D. ... Syntagma medicum & chirurgicum De cauteriis praesertim potestate agentibus seu ruptoriis : olim in Academia Patavina nationi Germanicae praelectum, nunc multorum desideriis sasfaciendi ergo revisum, auctum, arcanisque cauterijs usu probatissimis locupletatum & publici juris factum : Accessit ejusdem autoris De aere pestilenti corrigendo consilium medicum (impensis Salomonis Sartorii, 1624), by Caspar Bartholin, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Salomon Sartor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (G. Routledge & sons, limited;, 1905), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Robert Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lumbrico terrestri. (Joh. Chrisoph. Stösselii, 1703), by Christian Franz Paullini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours de fièvres. (L'imprimerie de Jean Francois Picot, 1791), by J.-C.-M.-G. de Grimaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manifiesto canonico,christiano y politico por... D.Fra[n]cisco Añoa y Busto... en la disputa que con ocasion de la... exequias de... Doña Maria Ana de Neoburg ha ocurrido don el... Conde de Maceda... (s.n., 1740), by Francisco Ignacio Añoa y Busto and Reina consorte de Carlos II Mariana de Neoburgo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apology for the Bible : in a series of letters addressed to Thomas Paine, author of The age of reason (Published by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855), by Richard Watson, Charles Leslie, and Thomas Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Aureli Augustini opera. (Apud Geroldi Filium, 1887), by Saint Augustine of Hippo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1776), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qur'ān leaf] (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-awwal. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sādis ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrūn]. (1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis wa-al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ ʻashar (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-thāmin (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1818), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1680), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, David Eugene Smith, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd Būṣīrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1741), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Muḥsin Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ḥādī ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taʻlīq al-durrah al-Shanawānīyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Ajurrūmīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1637), by Abū Bakr ibn Ismāʻīl Shanawānī, David Eugene Smith, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh Azharī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ājurrūm, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Risālah fī al-uṣūl al-ʻasharah min al-taṣawwuf. Risālat al-Taḥdhīr. (Columbia University Libraries, 1709), by George A. Plimpton, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik Muttaqī, 1145 or 1146-1221 Nazhmiddin Kubro, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1799), by ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah, ʻAlī Shukrī, Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān leaves]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1300), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dīvān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tuḥfatu'l-ʻirfān (Columbia University Libraries, 1720), by Muḥammed Muṣīb Narḫīzāde, David Eugene Smith, Şahidî İbrahim Dede, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān folio]. (Columbia University Libraries, 0800), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb sharḥ al-Jurrūmīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1580), by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad Jibrīl, David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad ʻAwwād ibn Ḥusayn Afandī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1568), by approximately 1253-1325 Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasiyet (Columbia University Libraries, 1726), by approximately 1522-1573 Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, Emîr Süleyman, active 1726 Kâtip Boşnāḳ Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmet, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by Harry G. Friedman and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1779), by David Eugene Smith, active 1779 Ismāʻīl ibn Ṣāliḥ, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Subḥat al-abrār]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Jami, Alan H. Kempner, Margaret Loeb Kempner, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Leaf from Khusraw va Shīrīn]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Gulistān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Sa'di, A. V. Williams Jackson, A. Beijan, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sahm al-muṣīb fī al-radd ʻalá al-Khaṭīb (Columbia University Libraries, 1226), by Sultan of Damascus Muʻaẓẓam, active 1226 ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Carl Reinhardt, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle de l'ame (s.n., 1747), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Du Châtelet, and François-Joseph Hunauld (page images at HathiTrust)

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