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• Civilization -- Early works to 1800

• A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• The Influence of Ancient Egyptian Civilization in the East and in America (Manchester: At the University Press; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916), by Grafton Elliot Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Wisdom of the Egyptians: The Story of the Egyptians, the Religion of the Ancient Egyptians, the Ptah-Hotep and the Ke'gemini, the "Book of the Dead," the Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus, Egyptian Magic, the Book of Thoth, by Brian H. Brown (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Principia of Ethnology: The Origin of Races and Color, With an Archeological Compendium of Ethiopian and Egyptian civilization, From Years of Careful Examination and Enquiry (second edition; Philadelphia: Harper and Brother, 1880), by Martin Robison Delany (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonising Egypt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Timothy Mitchell (HTML at UC Press)

• The Art of Ancient Egypt: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1998), by Edith W. Watts (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• A Book of the Beginnings (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1881), by Gerald Massey
  • Volume I (Egyptian Origines in the British Isles): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Egyptian Origines in the Hebrew, Akkado-Assyrian and Maori): multiple formats at archive.org

• Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World: A World of Reclamation in Twelve Books (2 volumes; London: T. F. Unwin, 1907), by Gerald Massey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy (originally published 1954), by George G. M. James (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)
• A Reformation of Schooles Designed in Two Excellent Treatises (London: Printed for M. Sparke, 1642), by Johann Amos Comenius, trans. by Samuel Hartlib (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Thoughts on Education (London: Printed for D. Wilson, 1761), by Gilbert Burnet (multiple formats at Google)
• Emile, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by Barbara Foxley (Gutenberg text)
• Emile (in English and French), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, trans. by Barbara Foxley and Grace G. Roosevelt (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Great Didactic, by Johann Amos Comenius, ed. by M. W. Keatinge (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Of Education, by John Milton
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
  • HTML with commentary at Dartmouth
  • HTML with commentary at Bartleby
• Positions Concerning the Training Up of Children, by Richard Mulcaster, ed. by William Barker (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The First Part of the Elementarie Which Entreateth Chieflie of the Right Writing of our English Tung, by Richard Mulcaster (zipped TEI at OTA)
• Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics v3; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Thomas Browne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Reflections on the Study of Nature, Translated from the Latin of the Celebrated Linnaeus (London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1785), by Carl von Linné, trans. by James Edward Smith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (first Worcester edition; Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1787), contrib. by Isaiah Thomas (page images at LOC)

• The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by F. W. Robertson (HTML with commentary at Fordham)

• Early Religion: or, The Way for a Young Man to Remember His Creator Proposed in a Sermon Preach'd Upon the Death of Mr. Robert Linager, a Young Gentleman, Who Left This World, Octob. 26, 1682; With an Account of Some Passages of His Life and Death (London: Printed for J. Robinson and J. Dunton, 1683), by Timothy Rogers, contrib. by Edward Veel (HTML and EEBO TCP)

• The Instruction of a Christen Woman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2002), by Juan Luis Vives, ed. by Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, Elizabeth Hageman, and Margaret Lael Mikesell (HTML at U-Illinois Press)

• Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke
  • HTML at Fordham
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Advancement of Learning, by Francis Bacon, ed. by Hartmut Krech and William Aldis Wright (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• The Advancement of Learning (London: Cassell, 1893), by Francis Bacon (Gutenberg text)

• A Sermon on Education, Wherein Some Account is Given of the Academy, Established in the City of Philadelphia: Preach'd at the Opening thereof, on the Seventh Day of January, 1750-1, by Richard Peters (frame-dependent page images here at Penn)

• Dissertatio, de Ingenii Muliebris ad Doctrinam, et Meliores Litteras Aptitudine (in Latin; 1641), by Anna Maria van Schurman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Boarding School: Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils (Boston: J.P. Peaslee, 1829), by Hannah Webster Foster (Gutenberg text)

• Mentoria: or, The Young Lady's Friend (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed for R. Campbell, 1794), by Mrs. Rowson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Evans TCP

• A Selection from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldūn, With Notes and an English-German Glossary (Semitic Study series #4, in Arabic with English and German notes; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1905), by Ibn Khaldun, ed. by Duncan Black Macdonald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• An Introduction to Wysedome (London: T. Berthelet, 1544), by Juan Luis Vives, trans. by Richard Morison, contrib. by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Hartley et al., 1703) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of the Ordre of Chyualry, by Ramon Llull, trans. by William Caxton (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• 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)

• 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 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)
• Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (London: Chatto and Windus, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walter Map: De Nugis Curialium (Anecdota Oxoniensa Mediaeval and Modern Series #14; text in Latin and commentary in English; 1914), by Walter Map, ed. by M. R. James (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hakluytus Posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes (4 volumes; London: Imprinted for H. Fetherston, 1625), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Purchas His Pilgrimage (London: Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1626), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Kitab al-milal wa-al-nihal: Book of Religious and Philosophical Sects (2 volumes in Arabic, with English title pages and prefatory matter; London: Printed for the Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, 1842-1846), by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Karim Shahrastani, ed. by William Cureton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de Tous Les Peuples du Monde (first editions in multiple languages, with commentary), ed. by Jean-Frédéric Bernard, illust. by Bernard Picart (page images with commentary at UCLA)
• The Origin of All Religious Worship (with a description of the zodiac of Dandarah; New Orleans, 1872), by Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)

• A General History of The Americans, of Their Customs, Manners, and Colours; An History of The Patagonians, of The Blafards, and White Negroes; History of Peru; An History of The Manners, Customs, &c. of The Chinese and Egyptians, Selected from M. Pauw (Rochdale, UK: T. Wood, 1806), by Cornelius Pauw, ed. by Daniel Webb (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A View of the Arts and Sciences, From the Earliest Times to the Age of Alexander the Great (London: J. Bell, 1785), by James Bannister
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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