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• Europe -- Early works to 1800

• France -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Germany -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Greece -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Italy -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Netherlands -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Poland -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Spain -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Switzerland -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
• Europe -- Social life and customs -- History -- Early works to 1800

• A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany; With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1781), by John Moore
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The letters and works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. (AMS Press, 1970), by Mary Wortley Montagu, W. Moy Thomas, and James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of society and manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: : with anecdotes relating to some eminent characters. (Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell ..., 1786), by John Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jewish spy : being a philosophical, historical and critical correspondence, by letters which lately pass'd between certain Jews in Turkey, Italy, France, &c. (Printed for D. Browne [and 4 others], 1744), by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Artamenes: or, The Grand Cyrus (5 volumes; London: Printed for H. Moseley and T. Dring, 1653-1655), by Madeleine de Scudéry, trans. by F. G., Gent. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Curial, by Alain Chartier, trans. by William Caxton (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Notes of a journey from Berne to England through France. Made in the year 1797. (Printed by W. Blackader, 1797), by Andrew Douglas and W. Blackader (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la vie privée des François : depuis l'origine de la nation jusqu'à nos jours (Paris : Laurent-Beaupré, libraire, Palais Royal, no 218, 1815., 1815), by cit. Legrand and Jean-Baptiste-Bonaventure de Roquefort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curial. English ([Westminster : William Caxton, 1483]), by Alain Chartier and William Caxton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Discours sur les arcs triomphaux (Par Iean Tholosan, imprimeur du roy ..., 1624), by François de Gallaup de Chasteuil, Jean Cabassut, César de Nostredame, Jacques Gaffarel, and Iacobus Maretz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours sur les arcs triomphaux dressés en la ville d'Aix : a l'heureuse arrivée de Monseigneur le duc de Bourgogne, & de Monseigneur le duc de Berry. (Chez Jean Adibert ... , 1701), by François de Gallaup de Chasteuil and Jean Claude Cundier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explication des cérémonies de la Fête-Dieu d'Aix en Provence : orné de figures du lieutenant de prince d'Amour, du roi & bâtonniers de la bazoch, de l'abbé de la ville, & des jeux des diables, des razcassetos, des apôtres, de la reine de Saba, des tirassons, des chevaux frux, &c. &c. &c. : et des airs notés, consacrés à cette fête. (Chez Esprit David, imprimeur du roi, 1777), by Gaspard Grégoire, Gaspard Grégoire, and Paul Grégoire (page images at HathiTrust)

• A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany; With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1781), by John Moore
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Über die Probenächte der teutschen Bauermädchen (Bei George Jacob Decker, 1780), by Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thurnier Buch, von Anfang, Ursachen, Ursprung und Herkommen der Thurnier im Heyligen Römischen Reich Teutscher Nation (bey Georg Raben in Verlegung Sigmund Feyrabends vnd Simon Hüters, 1566), by Georg Rüxner, Hartmann Schopper, Johann Melchior Bocksberger, Jost Amman, and Sigmund Feyerabend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anfang, Ursprung und Herkommen des Thurniers inn Teutscher Nation (Dis Büch isst gedruckt in Verlegung Hieronimi Rodlers, Fürstlichen Secretarien zů Siemern, 1532), by Georg Rüxner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Probenächte der teutschen Bauermädchen (in German), by Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Golden Fleece (London: Printed for F. Williams, 1626), by William Vaughan
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• Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical, and Humourous (1773), by Tim Bobbin, illust. by Thomas Sanders (page images at NIH)
• The Diary of John Evelyn (2 volumes; New York and London: M. Walter Dunne, c1901), by John Evelyn, ed. by William Bray
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Tatler. (Printed by C. Whittingham, published by John Sharpe, 1804), by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of John Evelyn, Esq., F. R. S. from 1641 to 1705-6 : with memoir (F. Warne, 1879), by John Evelyn and William Bray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diary of John Evelyn, from 1641 to 1705-6, with memoir (F. Warne, 1880), by John Evelyn and William Bray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tatler. (Printed by Bye and Law for Messrs. Longman, Dodsley, Law ... [et al.], 1797), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires et observations faites par un voyageur en Angleterre : sur ce qu'il y a trouvé de plus remarquable, tant à l'égard de la religion, que de la politique, des moeurs, des curiositez naturelles, & quantité de faits historiques, avec une description particuliere de ce qu'il y a de plus curieux dans Londres, le tout enrichi de figures. (Chez Henri van Bulderen ..., 1698), by Henri Misson, Henri Bulderen, Johannes van den Aveele, and Maximilien Misson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Comical Pilgrim; or, Travels of a Cynick Philosopher...: Thro' the most Wicked Parts of the World, Namely, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Holland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 2 of 2), by John Evelyn, ed. by William Bray (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 1 of 2), by John Evelyn, ed. by William Bray, contrib. by Richard Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pleasant quippes for vpstart nevvfangled gentlevvomen. (Imprinted at London : by Richard Iohnes, 1596), contrib. by Stephen Gosson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess. Together with all manner of games either on cards, or dice. To which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting. (London : Printed by Charles Brome ..., 1687), by Charles Cotton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce (Dupont, 1826), by J.-J. Barthélemy and Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage litteraire de la Grece (Chez la veuve Duchesne, libraire ..., 1771), by M. Guys and veuve Duchesne (page images at HathiTrust)
• De vetervm acclamationibvs et plavsv libri septem Francisci Bernardini Ferrarii (Ex Ambrosiani collegij typographia, 1627), by Francesco Bernardino Ferrari (page images at HathiTrust)

• A nevv description of Ireland vvherein is described the disposition of the Irish whereunto they are inclined. No lesse admirable to be perused then credible to be beleeued: neither vnprofitable nor vnpleasant to bee read and vnderstood, by those worthy cittizens of London that be now vndertakers in Ireland: by Barnabe Rich, Gent: (Printed at London : [By William Jaggard] for Thomas Adams, 1610), by Barnabe Rich (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true and a kinde excuse vvritten in defence of that booke, intituled A newe description of Irelande Wherein is freely confessed 1 The cause of the writing of that booke. 2 How that booke was brought into obloquy and slander 3 A reuocation of all ouersightes that through ignorance were published in that booke. 4 A bulwarke or defence of all truthes contayned in that booke. Pleasant and pleasing both to English, and Irish. By Barnabe Rych, Gent. Seruant to the Kinges most excellent Maiestie. (London : Printed [by Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Adams, 1612), by Barnabe Rich (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Letters from Italy, Describing the Customs and Manners of That Country, in the Years 1765, and 1766; To Which is Annexed, An Admonition to Gentlemen Who Pass the Alps, in Their Tour Through Italy (third edition; London: Printed for Henry and Cave, ca. 1767), by Samuel Sharp
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
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• A view of society and manners in Italy : with anecdotes relating to some eminent characters (Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, and sold by T. Cadell Junior, and W. Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell) ..., 1795), by John Moore, Thomas Cadell, T. Cadell, and Andrew Strahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Svccessi del viaggio d'Henrico III, christianissmo. Re di Francia, e di Polonia, dalla sva partita di Craccovia fino all'arrivo in Tvrino (Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1574), by Niccolò Lucangeli and Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of society and manners in Italy : with anecdotes relating to some eminent characters (Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1781), by John Moore, T. Cadell, and William Strahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• View of Italy (Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1787), by John Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of the customs, manners, drama, &c. of Italy, as they are described in the Frusta letteraria, and in The account of Italy in English, written by Mr. Baretti, compared with The letters from Italy, written by Mr. Sharp (Printed for W. Nicoll ..., 1768), by Samuel Sharp, W. Nicoll, and Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (page images at HathiTrust)
• A View of Society and Manners in Italy, Volume 2 (of 2): With Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent Characters, by John Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• A View of Society and Manners in Italy, Volume 1 (of 2): With Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent Characters, by John Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• The character of Italy or, The Italian anatomiz'd. / by An English chyrurgion. (London : Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, 1660) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Historische en letterkundige avondstonden : er ophelderinge van eenige zeden der Nederlanderen : byzonderlyk in derzelvep daaglyksch en huislyk leeven : en van den stand der Nederduitsche dichtkunde, sedert de vroegste tyden, tot aan het begin der zestiende eeuwe : doormengd met eene opgaave van, hier te lande gevondene, maar nog niet beschreevene, Romeinsche overblyszelen, enz. : uit oorspronglyke stukken en de beste schryvers, met bygevoegde afbeeldingen, te saamengesteld (By Johannes Allart, 1800), by Hendrik van Wijn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Svccessi del viaggio d'Henrico III, christianissmo. Re di Francia, e di Polonia, dalla sva partita di Craccovia fino all'arrivo in Tvrino (Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1574), by Niccolò Lucangeli and Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari (page images at HathiTrust)

• De primogenitis Hispaniae libri quinque (Apud Ionnem Mariam à Terranoua, 1566), by Diego Simancas and Juan Maria Terranova (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present estate of Spayne, or A true relation of some remarkable things touching the court, and gouernment of Spayne with a catalogue of all the nobility, with their reuenues. Composed by Iames Wadsworth, Gent. late pensioner to his Maiesty of Spayne, and nominated his captaine in Flanders. (Imprinted at London : By A[ugustine] M[athewes] for Ambrose Ritherdon, at his shop, at the signe of the Bull head in Pauls-Church-Yard, 1630), by James Wadsworth (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The character of Spain or, an epitome of their virtues and vices. (London : Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, 1660) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany; With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1781), by John Moore
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

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