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• The poetical works of Thomas Traherne, B.D., 1636?-1674 : now first published from the original manuscripts (Pub. by the editor, 1903), by Thomas Traherne, Bertram Dobell, Sara Norton, Charles Eliot Norton, and Sarah Orne Jewett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Edwin Forrest, the American tragedian. (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1877), by William Rounseville Alger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baronet and the butterfly. (L. H. May, 1899), by James McNeill Whistler, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Ballantyne Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The sisters' tragedy : with other poems, lyrical and dramatic (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891), by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and Rogers Memorial Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• A London life, The Patagonia, The liar, Mrs. Temperly. (Macmillan and co., 1889), by Henry James, Grenville Lindall Winthrop, and Copley Amory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugh Wynne, free Quaker, sometime brevet lieutenant-colonel on the staff of His Excellency General Washington (The Century co., 1897), by S. Weir Mitchell, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Othello of Tommaso Salvini (Putnam's, 1890), by Edward T. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'Opéra (Bachelin-Deflorenne, 1875), by Alphonse Royer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendau : pouèmo nouvèu (J. Roumanille, 1867), by Frédéric Mistral, H. Bradley Martin, Charles Monselet, and Théodore Ortolan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario delle lingue Italiana et Inglese (Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes ... [and 9 others], 1760), by Giuseppe Baretti, R. B. Adam, Robert William Rogers, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library), and C. Hitch and L. Hawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritik der reinen Vernunft. (Mayer & Müller, 1889), by Immanuel Kant, Josiah Royce, William James, and Erich Adickes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boswell's Johnson (J. Murray, 1831), by James Boswell, Morrell, Thomas Thorpe, Edward James Martin, K. MacDonald, James Dick, John Murray, Frank Fletcher, G. W. Andrews, R. B. Adam, Lena Stevens Adam, John Field, Joseph Haslewood, John Wilson Croker, William Upcott, Samuel Richardson, William Pitt, J. Nourse, Hannah More, T. Cadell, Arthur Amory Houghton, and Donald & Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études philosophiques sur l'instinct et l'intelligence des animaux (Berger-Levrault, 1853), by Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée and Arthur Schopenhauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The centenary of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson : as observed in Concord, May 25, 1903 (Printed at the Riverside Press for the Social circle in Concord, 1903), by Social Circle in Concord, Frederic Alcott Pratt, Henry James, and Edward Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sospiri di Roma (Printed for the author by La Societá Laziale, 1891), by William Sharp, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and Charles Holroyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bowdoin poets. (J. Griffin, 1840), by Edward P. Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in logic (Little, Brown, and Company, 1883), by Benjamin Ives Gilman, O. H. Mitchell, Allan Marquand, Charles S. Peirce, Christine Ladd-Franklin, and Johns Hopkins University (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Woolman's journal (James R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by John Woolman, Samuel T. Pickard, Annie R. Godfrey, and John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The frogs (Clarendon Press, 1905), by Aristophanes, E. E. Cummings, and W. Walter Merry (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the genius of George Cruikshank (H. Hooper, 1840), by William Makepeace Thackeray, J. Watkins, George Cruikshank, Henry Cole, and Richard Bentley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Formel logik : Til brug ved forelæsninger. (P.G. Philipsen, 1884), by Harald Høffding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monument to Robert Gould Shaw : its inception, completion and unveiling, 1865-1897. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897), by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hanging of the crane (James R. Osgood & Co., 1875), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt, Frederic Alcott Pratt, Amos Bronson Alcott, Abba May Alcott, W. J. Linton, A. V. S. Anthony, Thomas Moran, and M. A. Hallock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The collected works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Ellis and Scrutton, 1886), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, and Stuart M. Samuel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armada days : a dramatic sketch (Univ. Press, 1898), by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and Thomas Bailey Aldrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected poems (Clarendon Press, 1887), by Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Gosse, and Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thucydidis De Bello peloponnesiaco libri octo (apud J. Parker; et R. Bliss ;, 1821), by Thucydides, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Joseph Wasse, Karl Andreas Duker, and Immanuel Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wayside music : lyrics, songs and sonnets (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1893), by Charles H. Crandall and George Edward Woodberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prioresses tale ; Sire Thopas ; The Monkes tale ; The Clerkes tale ; The Squieres tale (Clarendon Press, 1893), by Geoffrey Chaucer, E. E. Cummings, and Walter W. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Oedipus tyrannus of Sophocles. Harvard university, Sanders theatre, May 17, 19, and 20, 1881. (The Greek department., 1881), by Sophocles, F. H. Sargent, and L. E. Opdycke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fl. angl. (Impensis auctoris ;, 1762), by William Hudson and Gilbert White (page images at HathiTrust)
• A meteorological register, kept at Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire, 1785-1794 : to which are subjoined, the most probable indications of weather, deducible from the changes in the barometer : with two plates describing the extraordinary effects of lightning, and the appearance of a singular meteor. (Printed by S. Tupman ..., 1795), by Hayman Rooke and White Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the recent voyage of Captain Ross to the Arctic regions, in the years 1829-30-31-32-33 : and a notice of Captain Back's expedition; with a preliminary sketch of polar discoveries, from the earliest period to the year 1827. (Wiley & Long, 1835), by Edwin Williams and Joseph T. Tower (page images at HathiTrust)
• 10 great religions (J.R. Osgood, 1871), by James Freeman Clarke and Thomas Bailey Aldrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first canticle, Inferno, of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (De Vries, Ibarra and Company, 1867), by Dante Alighieri and Thomas William Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les blagues de l'univers (Achille Faure, 1866), by P. T. Barnum, Alexandre Vattemare, Jules Bobin, Charles de Mandre, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shipwreck, a poem (A. and C. Black, 1858), by William Falconer, R. Dyke Benjamin, John Ruskin, Myles Birket Foster, and Robert Carruthers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Thackeray, Mr. Yates and the Garrick Club : the correspondence and facts (Printed for private circulation, 1859), by Edmund Yates, Charles Manby, William Makepeace Thackeray, and England) Garrick Club (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• My time, and what I've done with it : an autobiography (Macmillan, 1874), by F. C. Burnand, D. Oswald Hunter Blair, Cecil Colvin, and Scotland) St. Benedict's Abbey (Fort Augustus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modernités (E. Giraud & Cie., 1885), by Jean Lorrain, J.-K. Huysmans, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magor (P.-V. Stock, éditeur (ancienne librairie Tresse & Stock) 9, 10, 11, galerie du Théatre-français, Palais-royal., 1899), by Paul Hyacinthe Loyson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Puteshestvie novgorodskago arkhiepiskopa Antoniia v Tsarʹgrad v kontse 12-go stoletiia. S predisloviem i primechaniiami Pavla Savvaitova ... (Tipografiia Imeratorskoi Akademii nauk. (Vas. ostr. 9 lin. no 12.), 1872), by abp. of Novgorod Antoniĭ, Dobynia Andreikovich, P. I. Savvaitov, and Russia. Arkheograficheskai︠a︡ kommissīi︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of an exhibition of angling books, together with a number of manuscripts, angling book-plates, prints, medals, etc., from the collection of a member of the Grolier Club. New York, the Grolier Club, December 7, 1911, to January 6, 1912. (The De Vinne Press, 1911), by Daniel B. Fearing, De Vinne Press, Harvard University Library, and Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliographical account of English theatrical literature from the earliest times to the present day (J.C. Nimmo, 1888), by Robert William Lowe, Thomas Franklin Currier, and F. E. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier. (J. R. Osgood, 1878), by John Greenleaf Whittier, Marshall Pinckney Wilder Albee, Frances Coolidge Albee, Richard Henry Stoddard, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, and Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems of rural life (Kegan Paul, Trench, 1888), by William Barnes, James Stevens-Cox, S. S. Buckman, James Buckman, George Whitfield, S. Petherton, George E. Blood, Helen M. Henderson, R. M. A. Whitaker, and Walter Macklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Très russe (E. Giraud et Cie, 1886), by Jean Lorrain and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack : mœurs contemporaines (E. Dentu, 1876), by Alphonse Daudet, Huser, Charles Hayoit, Anatole France, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Saxons : a drama of Christianity in the North (Hammersmark Publishing Co., 1905), by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker and George Edward Woodberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diana : the sonnets, and other poems (B. M. Pickering, 1859), by Henry Constable, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Monckton Milnes, Leigh Hunt, and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The grammar of science (A. and C. Black, 1900), by Karl Pearson and William James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of a collection of printed broadsides in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London (The Society, 1866), by Society of Antiquaries of London, Hyder Edward Rollins, William A. Jackson, and Robert Lemon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Channing's last address (J. G. Stanly, 1842), by William Ellery Channing, Evert Jansen Wendell, and William B. Osgood Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Immanuel Kant's Critique of pure reason. (Macmillan, 1881), by Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Noiré, F. Max Müller, William James, and Francis Ellingwood Abbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queen Victoria (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921), by Lytton Strachey and Gamaliel Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on universal algebra : with applications (The University Press, 1898), by Alfred North Whitehead and T. N. Whitehead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roxburghe ballads. (Printed for the Ballad society by S. Austin and sons; [etc., etc.], 1871), by W. Chappell (page images at HathiTrust)
• National portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages of the nineteenth century (Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1830), by William Jerdan, Clarence S. Bement, and W. H. Ince (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of George Cruikshank : artist and humorist ; with numerous illustrations and a £1 bank note (Elliot Stock, 1878), by Walter Hamilton, George Cruikshank, and William Stones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letters of William James (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920), by William James, Henry James, and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Congregationalism of the last three hundred years, as seen in its literature : with special reference to certain recondite, neglected, or disputed passages : in twelve lectures, delivered on the Southworth Foundation in the theological seminary at Andover, Mass., 1876-1879 : with a bibliographical appendix (Harper & Brothers, 1880), by Henry Martyn Dexter, Francis W. Allen, and Andover Theological Seminary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The North pole : its discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic club (Frederick A. Stokes co., 1910), by Robert E. Peary, Joseph T. Tower, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A modern Utopia (Chapman & Hall, 1905), by H. G. Wells and William James (page images at HathiTrust)

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