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• 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)
• 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 English Gentleman: Containing Sundry Excellent Rules or Exquisite Observations, Tending to Direction of Every Gentleman, of Selecter Ranke and Qualitie; How to Demeane or Accommodate Himselfe in the Manage of Publike or Private Affaires (London: Printed by J. Haviland, 1630), by Richard Brathwaite, illust. by Robert Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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)

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

• Caxton's Book of Curtesye, Printed at Westminster about 1477-8 A.D. and Now Reprinted, with Two Ms. Copies of the Same Treatise, from the Oriel Ms. 79, and the Balliol Ms. 354 (EETS extra series #3; London: Published for the Early English Text Society, c1868), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (Gutenberg text)
• Good Morals and Gentle Manners, by Alexander Murdoch Gow (page images at MOA)
• Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert); A Booke of Precedence, The Ordering of a Funerall, &c.; Varying Versions of The Good Wife, The Wise Man, &c.; Maxims, Lydgate's Order of Fools, A Poem on Heraldry, Occleve on Lord's Men, &c. (with Essays on Early Italian and German Books of Courtesy; EETS extra series #8; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1869), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by Humphrey Gilbert, William Michael Rossetti, and Eugene Oswald (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Be Polite to All (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1857) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• La Civilité (Puérile et Honnête) Expliquée par l'Oncle Eugène (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit and Co., ca. 1887), by Eugène Plon, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Grunty Grunts and Smiley Smile Indoors (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co., c1920), by Bertha E. Feist, illust. by M. P. Brater (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Gentlewomans Companion (1999 edited edition; based on the edition of 1673), ed. by Katherine E. Ellison, contrib. by Hannah Woolley (HTML at Emory)
• The Gentlewoman's Companion, or, A Guide to the Female Sex (London: Printed by A. Maxwell for D. Newman, 1673), contrib. by Hannah Woolley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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)
• George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation: 110 Don'ts (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1942), by George Washington, ed. by John Allen Murray, illust. by Georg T. Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Gentleman: Containing Sundry Excellent Rules or Exquisite Observations, Tending to Direction of Every Gentleman, of Selecter Ranke and Qualitie; How to Demeane or Accommodate Himselfe in the Manage of Publike or Private Affaires (London: Printed by J. Haviland, 1630), by Richard Brathwaite, illust. by Robert Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation, by George Washington, ed. by Charles Moore, contrib. by Francis Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Washington's Rules of Civility, Traced to Their Sources and Restored (1890), by George Washington, ed. by Moncure Daniel Conway (Gutenberg text)
• The Rules of Civility (manuscript copy and transcription), by George Washington, contrib. by Charles Moore (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• 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)

• The Polite Academy, or Complete Instructions for a Genteel Behaviour and Polite Address in Masters and Misses: Serving As a Foundation for the Manners and Behaviour of an Accomplish'd Gentleman or Lady in Any Stage of Life (London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1758) (page images at uncg.edu)
• De Civilitate Morun Puerillium / A Lytell Bok of Good Maners for Chyldren (in Latin and English; London: W. de Worde, 1532), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Robert Whittington (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (first Worcester edition; Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1787), contrib. by Isaiah Thomas (page images at LOC)

• De Civilitate Morun Puerillium / A Lytell Bok of Good Maners for Chyldren (in Latin and English; London: W. de Worde, 1532), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by Robert Whittington (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• 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 II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • 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, 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 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

• 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)

• 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)

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