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• Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798

• The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2016), ed. by Lotte Jensen
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• An Historical Review of the Transactions of Europe, From the Commencement of the War with Spain in 1739, to the Insurrection in Scotland in 1745 With Proceedings in Parliament and the Most Remarkable Domestick Occurrences During That Period; To Which is Added an Impartial History of the Late Rebellion (2 volumes; Reading: D. Henry, 1747), by Samuel Boyse
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, by Giacomo Casanova, trans. by Arthur Machen, contrib. by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by S. J. Barnett (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The Revolution Against the Church: From Reason to the Supreme Being (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by Michel Vovelle, trans. by Alan José (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Athanasian Creed a Preservative Against Heresies: or, The Reasonableness, and Necessity of Retaining it in the Public Liturgy (London: Printed for J. Crownfield and sold by C. Crownfield, 1735)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (Dublin: Printed by R. Draper for B. Dugdale, 1797), by William Wilberforce (Gutenberg text and page images)
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (fourth edition; London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jr. and W. Davies, 1797), by William Wilberforce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (6th edition, corrected; London: Printed by T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1798), by William Wilberforce
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (first American edition; Philadelphia: Printed by J. Ormrod, 1798), by William Wilberforce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Protestation Issued by the English Romanists in 1788 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., 1897), ed. by Andrew James Campbell Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• English Dissent (exhibit catalogue; 1979), by Margaret A. Howell and Charles F. Mullett (PDF at Missouri)

• Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Albion M. Urdank (HTML at UC Press)

• Quatre Batailles: Rivoli, Marengo, Austerlitz, Heilsberg (in French; Paris and Nancy: Berger-Levrault, 1913), by Commandant d' André (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Geschichte der Sächsischen Armee, Von Deren Errichtung bis auf die Neueste Zeit (3 volumes in German; Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1885), by O. Schuster and F. A. Francke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pickle the Spy: or, The Incognito of Prince Charles, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Critical Miscellanies (4 volumes, published by Macmillan 1904-1909), by John Morley
  • Volume I (Robespierre; Carlyle; Byron; Macaulay; Emerson): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Vauvenargugs; Turgot; Condorcet; Joseph de Maistre): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (On Popular Culture; The Death of Mr. Mill; Mr. Mill's Autobiography; The Life of George Eliot; On Pattison's Memoirs; Harriet Martineau; W. R. Greg: A Sketch; France in the Eighteenth Century; The Expansion of England; Auguste Comte): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A New Calendar of Great Men; John Stuart Mill: An Annversary; Lecky on Democracy; A Historical Romance; Democracy and Reaction; Appendix): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Release: or, Caroline's French Kindred (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1896), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Sheaf of Bluebells (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1917), by Baroness Orczy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sheaf of Bluebells (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1917), by Baroness Orczy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• "Proven Patriots": The French Diplomatic Corps, 1789-1799 (St. Andrews, UK: Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St. Andrews, c2011), by Linda Frey and Marsha Frey (PDF at St. Andrews)

• The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Carrier à Nantes: Précis de la Conduite Patriotique et Révolutionnaire des Citoyens de Nantes, en Réponse aux Inculpations de Carrier (in French; Nantes: Vier, 1885), by Charles Dugast-Matifeux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence of Jean-Baptiste Carrier (People's Representative to the Convention), During His Mission in Brittany, 1793-1794 (London and New York: J. Lane, 1920), by Jean-Baptiste Carrier, ed. by E. H. Carrier (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1994), by Friedrich Gilly, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Fritz Neumeyer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England: Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution, and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame du F. (4th edition; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1794), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at Google)

• The Physiocrats: Six Lectures on the French Economistes of the 18th Century, by Henry Higgs (PDF at McMaster)

• The Savage Visit: New World People and Popular Imperial Culture in Britain, 1701-1795 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by Kate Fullagar (multiple formats with commentary at escholarship.org)
• History of England, From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles, 1713-1783 (3rd ed.; Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853-4), by Philip Henry Stanhope (page images at MOA)
• The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures (London: Macmillan and Co., 1914), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope, by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Gutenberg text)

• A Critical Examination of Irish History: Being a Replacement of the False by the True, From the Elizabethan Conquest to the Legislative Union of 1800 (2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green, and co.; et al., 1900), by T. Dunbar Ingram
  • Volume I; multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Critical Examination of Irish History: Being a Replacement of the False by the True, From the Elizabethan Conquest to the Legislative Union of 1800 (reissue; 2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green, and co.; et al., 1904), by T. Dunbar Ingram (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; v1 US access only)
• A Popular History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics, by Thomas D'Arcy McGee (Gutenberg text)

• Eclipsis Poloniae Orbi Publico Demonstrata (in Latin and Polish; 1709), by Candido Veronensis (page images in Germany)
• Eclipsis Poloniae Orbi Publico Demonstrata; Zaćmienie Polski Światu Powszechnemu Wykazane (in Latin and Polish; Krakow: Czcionkami Drukarni "Czasu", 1902), by Candido Veronensis and Stanisław Antoni Szczuka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lectures on Some Subjects of Modern History and Biography: Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, 1860-1864 (Dublin: W. B. Kelly; et al., 1864), by James Burton Robertson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe (c2006), by Sarah Lowengard (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Alessa Johns (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Alessa Johns (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (in German; Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• L'Idée de l'Europe au Siècle des Lumières (in French; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Politische Romantik (in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1919), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Politische Romantik (second edition, in German; Munich and Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1925), by Carl Schmitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Alessa Johns (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2004), ed. by Owen Davies and Willem de Blécourt (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Casanova: His Known and Unknown Life (New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1931), by S. Guy Endore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Casanova from 1774 to 1798; A Supplement to the Memoirs (New York: N. L. Brown, 1924), by Mitchell S. Buck, contrib. by J. F. H. Adnesse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, by Giacomo Casanova, trans. by Arthur Machen, contrib. by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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