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• Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 1758-1806
• Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194-1250
• Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 1050-1106
• Julian, Emperor of Rome, 331-363
• Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180
• Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519
• Puyi, 1906-1967

• Czars (Emperors)
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• Tsars
• Tzars

• The Dove in the Eagle's Nest (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by William John Hennessy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Parthenia: or, The Last Days of Paganism (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858), by Eliza Buckminster Lee (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Beauty of the Purple: A Romance of Imperial Constantinople Twelve Centuries Ago (London: L. Parsons, c1925), by William Stearns Davis (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Parthenia: or, The Last Days of Paganism (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858), by Eliza Buckminster Lee (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• The Dove in the Eagle's Nest (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by William John Hennessy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Marengo: The Myth of Napoleon's Horse, by Jill, Duchess of Hamilton (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages (Frankfurt et al.: P. Lang, c2017), ed. by Christian Scholl, Torben R. Gebhardt, and Jan Clauss
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Fookoua Siriak: ou, Traité sur l'Origine des Richesses au Japon, Écrit en 1708 (extract from Nouveau Journal Asiatique, in French; Paris: Schubart et Heideloff, 1828), by Arai Hakuseki, trans. by Julius von Klaproth
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Statement of Some of the Principal Events in the Public Life of Agustín de Iturbide, Written by Himself (with a preface by the translator, and an appendix of documents; London: J. Murray, 1824), by Agustín de Iturbide, trans. by Michael J. Quin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of Agustin de Iturbide, Chiefly Concerning the Late Revolution in Mexico (London: J. Murray, 1824), by Agustín de Iturbide
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memoirs of Agustin de Iturbide, Chiefly Concerning the Late Revolution in Mexico (London: J. Murray, 1824), by Agustín de Iturbide
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Statement of Some of the Principal Events in the Public Life of Agustín de Iturbide, Written by Himself (with a preface by the translator, and an appendix of documents; London: J. Murray, 1824), by Agustín de Iturbide, trans. by Michael J. Quin
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Four Middle English Romances: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour or Artois, Sir Tryamour, ed. by Harriet Hudson (HTML at metseditions.org)

• The Caesars, by Thomas De Quincey (Gutenberg text)
• Imperial Purple, by Edgar Saltus (Gutenberg text)

• The Scriptores Historiae Augustae, With an English Translation (in Latin and English; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922-1932), trans. by David Magie (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; To Which Are Added, His Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets, by Suetonius, trans. by Alexander Thomson and Thomas Forester (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, by Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML at Fordham)
• De Die Natale; Life of the Emperor Hadrian (title of first book should be "De Die Natali"; New York: Cambridge Encyclopedia Co., 1900), trans. by William Maude, contrib. by Censorinus and Aelius Spartianus
  • HTML with commentary and corrected typos at elfinspell.com
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Regesten der Kaiser und Päpste für die Jahre 311 bis 476 n. Chr. (in German; Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1919), by Otto Seeck
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • facsimile reprint: PDF in Switzerland; 172 MB

• Die Königsgleichnisse des Midrasch, Beleuchtet Durch die Römische Kaiserzeit (in German; Breslau: S. Schottlaender, 1903), by Ignaz Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Divinity of the Roman Emperor (Philological monographs #1; Middletown, CT: American Philological Association, 1931), by Lily Ross Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imperial Incense (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1934), by Princess Der Ling, illust. by Bertha Lumn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Triumvirate: A Study of Louverture, Dessalines, Christophe, the Men Who Made Haiti (New York: Exposition Press, c1957), by Charles Moran (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sundry Great Gentlemen: Some Essays in Historical Biography (London: John Lane; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1928), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Henry IV, by Luigi Pirandello, trans. by Edward Storer (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• Herodiani ab Excessu Divi Marci Libri Octo (text in Greek, commentary in Latin; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1855), by Herodian, ed. by Immanuel Bekker (multiple formats at Google)
• Herodiani ab Excessu Divi Marci Libri Octo (text in Greek, commentary in Latin; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1922), by Herodian, ed. by Kurt Stavenhagen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Diall of Princes: Being Select Passages Now Set Forth With an Introduction and a Bibliography (London, P. Allan and Co., 1919), by Antonio de Guevara, ed. by Kenneth Newton Colvile, trans. by Thomas North
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Seekers After God, by F. W. Farrar (Gutenberg text)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Manchu Abdication and the Powers, 1908-1912: An Episode in Pre-War Diplomacy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1935), by John Gilbert Reid (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Meister der Politik: Eine Weltgeschichtliche Reihe von Bildnissen (second edition, 3 volumes in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1923-1924), ed. by Erich Marcks and Karl Alexander von Müller (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Prince de Ligne: His Memoirs, Letters, and Miscellaneous Papers (2 volumes; Boston: Hardy, Pratt and Co., 1902), by Charles Joseph Ligne, ed. by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, contrib. by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve and Madame de Staël (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Promised Day is Come, by Shoghi Effendi (HTML at bahai-library.org)

• Royal Romances and Tragedies (New York: Brentano's, 1921), by Charles Kingston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cymbeline Refinished (1937), by Bernard Shaw (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• King Lear, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

• The Prince: Written in French by Mounsier du Balzac, Now Translated Into English (London: Printed for M. Meighen and G. Bedell, 1648), by Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Powers of the Crown in Scotland, Being a Translation, With Notes and an Introductory Essay, of George Buchanan's "De Jure Regni Apud Scotos" (1949 translation), by George Buchanan, ed. by Charles Flinn Arrowood (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Machiavelli's Prince and its Forerunners: The Prince as a Typical Book de Regimine Principum (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1938), by Allan H. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (c1957), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Les Aventures du Roi Pausole (in French; Paris: Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1901), by Pierre Louÿs (Gutenberg text)
• The Mad King, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• The Mad King (original magazine version), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illustrated HTML at erblist.com)
• The Page and the Prince: or, A Fight for a Throne (Boston: Ball Pub. Co., 1908), by Charles P. Chipman, illust. by John Goss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Path of the King, by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• Graustark (New York: American News Co., c1901), by George Barr McCutcheon (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Graustark, by George Barr McCutcheon (Gutenberg text)
• Two Tales by Rudyard Kipling: The Man Who Would Be King; Without Benefit of Clergy (Boston: International Pocket Library, 1919), by Rudyard Kipling, contrib. by Wilson Follett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
• The Once and Future King (c1958), by T. H. White (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Dickon (c1929), by Marjorie Bowen (text at Gutenberg Australia)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.