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• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: C. Scribner, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historia Política y Diplomática, Desde la Independencia de los Estados Unidos Hasta Nuestros Dias (1776-1895) (in Spanish; Madrid: A. Romero, 1897), by Jerónimo Bécker
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World: The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700-1850 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2017), ed. by Richard Harding and Agustín Guimerá Ravina (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)

• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Forgotten Patriots: African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War, A Guide to Service, Sources and Studies (second edition; Washington: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, c2008), ed. by Eric Grundset (PDF with supplementand other commentary at dar.org)

• Black London: Life Before Emancipation (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c1995), by Gretchen Gerzina (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1920 edition), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (HTML at McMaster)

• The Mexican Bajio in the Eighteenth Century: An Analysis of Cultural Integration (New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1955), by Eric R. Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mexican Bajio in the Eighteenth Century: An Analysis of Cultural Integration (New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1955), by Eric R. Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Baptist Annual Register (4 volumes, covering 1790-1802), by John Rippon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black London: Life Before Emancipation (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, University Press of New England, c1995), by Gretchen Gerzina (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African, in Two Volumes; To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life (London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1782), by Ignatius Sancho
  • Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC

• Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life: Material and Cultural Life in Rural New England, 1780-1835 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1989), by William J. Gilmore-Lehne (PDF at Tennessee)

• A Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the Eighteenth Century (Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1979, reissued with a new foreword 2021), by Richard Beale Davis, contrib. by Catherine Kerrison (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (new edition; London: Printed for the author, 1792), by James Lackington (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Coming of the British to Australia, 1788 to 1829 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by Ida Lee
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, by Henry Fielding (Gutenberg text)

• Letters From a Lady, Who Resided Some Years in Russia, to Her Friend in England; With Historical Notes (second edition; London: J. Dodsley, 1777), by Mrs. Vigor (multiple formats at Google)

• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Works of Augustus M. Toplady, A. B., Late Vicar of Broad Hembury, Devon (6 volumes, 1825), by Augustus Toplady
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume V (slightly different edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at Google

• The New England Clergy and the American Revolution (originally published 1928), by Alice M. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cleveland in a Nutshell (1893), by Elroy McKendree Avery
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Ohio Memory

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Upholding Justice: Society, State, and the Penal System in Quito (1650-1750) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Tamar Herzog (page images at HathiTrust)

• London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800 (open access online edition, 2020), by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Brink Shoemaker (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at londonlives.org)

• "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)

• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• The Dawn of Juvenile Literature in England (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1925), by Gesiena Andreae (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Colonial Elite of Early Caracas: Formation and Crisis, 1567-1767 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Robert J. Ferry (HTML at UC Press)

• General Washington's Spies on Long Island and in New York (Brooklyn, NY: Long Island Historical Society, 1939), by Morton Pennypacker
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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

• Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1890), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London, New York, Mumbai: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898), by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)

• No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Rachel B. Herrmann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Rachel B. Herrmann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

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

• The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Charleston: John Russell, 1853), by J. G. M. Ramsey (page images at Google)

• Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edward S. Cooke (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edward S. Cooke (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• English Furniture and Furniture Makers of the 18th century (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1906), by R. S. Clouston
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• English Furniture Designers of the Eighteenth Century (London: A. H. Bullen, 1905), by Constance Simon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early German American Newspapers (Pennsylvania, the German Influence in its Settlement and Development, part 22; Lancaster: Pennsylvania-German Society, 1911), by Daniel Miller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Merry-Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany (4 parts reprinted with new introductions in 2 volumes, 1982-1983), ed. by Hurlothrumbo, contrib. by George Robert Guffey and Maximillian E. Novak
  • Part 1: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Parts 2-4: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• 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)

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