The Online Books Page

Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Enquire Within Upon Everything, contrib. by Robert Kemp Philp (multiple editions)
• The American Instructor: or, Young Man's Best Companion (10th edition, revised and corrected; Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1753), by George Fisher (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Modern Curiosities of Art and Nature (London: Printed for M. Gilliflower and J. Partridge, 1685), by Nicolas Lémery
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Quizzism, and its Key: Quirks and Quibbles From Queer Quarters (sixth edition, 1886), by Albert P. Southwick (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, and Out-of-the-Way Matters (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., ca. 1881), by Eliezer Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, and Out-of-the-Way Matters (new edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1897), by Eliezer Edwards
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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