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• 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

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• Values in Islamic Culture and the Experience of History (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2002), ed. by Nur Kirabaev and Yuriy Pochta (multiple formats at Google)
• The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities Under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), by John Boswell (PDF files at Libro)
• The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World, ed. by Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (PDF wth commentary at doaks.org)
• Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages, by Thomas F. Glick (PDF files at Libro)
• How Did Islam Spread? By Sword or by Conversion?, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)
• Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier, by James Brodman (PDF files at Libro)

• The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization, Christian, Islamic, and Judaic, From Constantine to Dante, A. D. 325-1300 (The Story of Civilization v4; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950), by Will Durant (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annales Islamologiques (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Revue du Monde Musulman (in French; 1906-1926) (partial serial archives)

• Islamic Contributions to Civilization (1963), by Stanwood Cobb (HTML at bahaistudies.net)

• Being Muslim in America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2009), ed. by George Clack and Michael Jay Friedman (PDF at state.gov)

• Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Rachel M. Scott (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords Across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), by Nandini Chatterjee (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• 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
• Peacham's Compleat Gentleman, 1634 (with an introduction by Gordon; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1906), by Henry Peacham, contrib. by George Stuart Gordon
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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 (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

• 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: Translated and Printed by William Caxton, From a French Version of Ramón Lull's "Le Libre del Orde de Cauayleria", Together With Adam Loutfut's Scottish Transcript (Harleian Ms. 6149) (EETS original series #168; London: Pub for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926), by Ramon Llull, ed. by A. T. P. Byles, trans. by William Caxton, contrib. by Adam Loutfut (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• 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)

• 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

• 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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