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• Consolation
• Early works to 1800

• Cardanus Comforte: Translated Into Englishe and Published by Commaundement of the Right Honourable the Earle of Oxenford (London: T. Marsh, 1573), by Girolamo Cardano, trans. by Thomas Bedingfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of Mortalitie of Man; The Rules of a Christian Lyfe Made by Picus Erle of Mirandula: Bothe Translated Into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyghte (London: T. Bertheleti, 1534), by Saint Cyprian and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, trans. by Thomas Elyot (at name.umdl.umich.edu)
• Ad Martyras (from a 1900 SPCK edition), by Tertullian, trans. by T. Herbert Bindley (HTML at tertullian.org)
• Ad Martyras, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

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

• Thy Will Be Done: Sickness, Faith, and the God Who Heals (c2011), by Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Blumhardt (PDF at plough.com)
• Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (with language modernized by the editor; London and New York: Sheed and Ward, 1951), by Thomas More, ed. by Monica Stevens (Gutenberg text)
• Comfort for Christians, by Arthur Walkington Pink (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing, by E. H. Chapin (Gutenberg text)
• The Early Dead, or Transplanted Flowers: A Collection of Thoughts, Poetical and Scriptural, on the Death of Children (Worcester, MA: H. J. Howland, 1857), ed. by William C. Whitcomb (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)
• The Ministry of Comfort, by J. R. Miller (HTML at jr-miller.com)
• The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1917), by Mary Webb (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Voices From the Silent Land: or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; London: Low and Co., 1853), ed. by Martha Noyes Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Voices From the Silent Land: or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington; London: Low and Co., 1858), ed. by Martha Noyes Williams (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• In God's Waiting Room: Learning Through Suffering, by Lehman Strauss (HTML at bible.org)

• A Token for Mourners, With a Selection of Scripture Promises, Relative To the Troubles of Life (Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers, ca. 1835) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
• Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
  • Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume I, second edition: HTML at ECCO TCP
  • volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: HTML at ECCO TCP
  • 2 volumes in 1: page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
• The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1784), by Anthony Benezet (Gutenberg text)
• A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Voyage of Hanno: Translated, and Accompanied With the Greek text, Explained From the Accounts of Modern Travellers, Defended Against the Objections of Mr. Dodwell and Other Writers, and Illustrated by Maps from Ptolemy, d'Anville, and Bougainville (in Greek and English; London: Sold by T. Cadell, jun. and Davies, 1797), by Hanno, ed. by Thomas Falconer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Periplus of Hanno: A Voyage of Discovery Down the West African Coast, by a Carthaginian Admiral of the Fifth Century B.C. (Philadelphia: Commercial Museum, 1912), by Hanno, trans. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• The History of the Long Captivity and Adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary (second edition; London: Printed for R. Goadby and sold by W. Owen, ca. 1740), by Thomas Pellow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner: Three and Twenty Years in Captivity Among the Moors (London: T. F. Unwin, 1890), by Thomas Pellow, ed. by Robert Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Complete History of Algiers; To Which is Prefixed, An Epitome of the General History of Barbary, From the Earliest Times, Interspersed With Many Curious Passages and Remarks, Not Touched on by Any Writer Whatever (London: Printed by J. Bettenham for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1731), by J. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa: Containing a Description of the Several Nations for the Space of Six Hundred Miles up the River Gambia (London: Printed by E. Cave for the author, 1738), by Francis Moore, contrib. by Bartholomew Stibbs and Leo Africanus (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• A Complete History of Algiers; To Which is Prefixed, An Epitome of the General History of Barbary, From the Earliest Times, Interspersed With Many Curious Passages and Remarks, Not Touched on by Any Writer Whatever (London: Printed by J. Bettenham for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1731), by J. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Three Miseries of Barbary: Plague; Famine; Civill Warre; With a Relation of the Death of Mahamet the Late Emperour, and a Briefe Report of the Now Present Wars Betweene the Three Brothers (London: Printed by W. Iaggard for H. Gosson, 1607), by George Wilkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Golden Trade: or, A Discovery of the River Gambra, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians, by Richard Jobson
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • HTML at Chicago; access may be selective

• A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793: And a Reputation of some Censures, Thrown upon Them in Some Late Publications (Philadelphia: Printed for the authors by W. W. Woodward, 1794), by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
  • page images at NIH
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793: And a Reputation of some Censures, Thrown upon Them in Some Late Publications (Philadelphia: Printed for the authors by W. W. Woodward, 1794), by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
  • page images at NIH
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• Dissertation sur la Cause Physique de la Couleur des Negres, de la Qualité de Leurs CHeveux,et de la Degeneration de l'un et de l'Autre (in French; Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1741) (page images at HathiTrust)

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