Old age -- Early works to 1800
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The Cure of Old Age, and Preservation of Youth (with Arrais's Arbor Vitae; London: Printed for T. Flesher and E. Evets, 1683), by Roger Bacon, trans. by Richard Browne, contrib. by Duarte Madeira Arrais- M. T. Cicero de Senectute et de Amicitia, Ex Editionibus Oliveti et Ernesti, Accedunt Notae Anglicae (third edition, with main text in Latin and commentary in English; Philadelphia: Perkins and Purves; Boston: B. Perkins, 1842), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Charles K. Dillaway
- Treatises on Friendship and Old Age, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, trans. by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (Gutenberg text)
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Filed under: Old age- Old Age: Two Discourses Upon This Theme (Bloomington, IN: S. C. Dodds and Co., 1879), by Elisha Ballantine (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Past Meridian (New York: D. Appleton and co.; Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co., 1854), by L. H. Sigourney (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life at Threescore and Ten (New York, American Tract Society, c1871), by Albert Barnes
- Ciba Foundation Colloquia on Ageing, ed. by G. E. W. Wolstenholme, Margaret P. Cameron, Elaine C. P. Millar, Cecilia M. O'Connor, and Maeve O'Connor (full serial archives)
- Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), ed. by David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett (HTML at UC Press)
- Extending Work Life: Employer Interests and Concerns (Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2016), by Robert L. Clark and Melinda S. Morrill (PDF at upjohn.org)
- What Women Need to Know About Retirement (ca. 2007), ed. by J. Lewis and C. Hounsell, contrib. by Teresa Heinz Kerry (PDF at wiserwomen.org)
- Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty: The Consequences for Higher Education (1991), ed. by P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Graying Teachers: A Report on State Pension Systems and School District Early Retirement Incentives (Eugene, OR: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, 1992), by Frank V. Auriemma, Bruce S. Cooper, and Stuart Carl Smith (PDF at Oregon)
- Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty: The Consequences for Higher Education (1991), ed. by P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Amelia DeFalco (PDF at Ohio State)
- At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1980), by Kathleen M. Woodward (PDF files at Ohio State)
- Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)
- Costs and Effectiveness of Cholesterol Screening in the Elderly (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Life-Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly (OTA-BA-306; Washington: GPO, 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
- Costs and Effectiveness of Prostate Cancer Screening in Elderly Men (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy (1988), ed. by Dorothy M. Gilford (page images with commentary at NAP)
- The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy (1988), ed. by Dorothy M. Gilford (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans (1997), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Beth J. Soldo (page images with commentary at NAP)
- The Costs and Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening in Elderly Women (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- How to Retire Without Money (New York: Castle Books, c1958), by Bob Belmont (page images at HathiTrust)
- Demography of Aging (1994), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images with commentary at NAP)
- Naval Retiring Board: Speech of Hon. Sam Houston, of Texas, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 18, 1856. (Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1856), by Sam Houston (page images at HathiTrust)
- Idealia, a Utopian Dream, or, Resthaven (Albany, NY: B. Lyon, c1923), by H. Alfarata Chapman Thompson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- What Women Need to Know About Retirement (ca. 2007), ed. by J. Lewis and C. Hounsell, contrib. by Teresa Heinz Kerry (PDF at wiserwomen.org)
- The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
- The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
- The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
- The Periplus of Hanno: A Voyage of Discovery Down the West African Coast, by a Carthaginian Admiral of the Fifth Century B.C. (Philadelphia: Commercial Museum, 1912), by Hanno, trans. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
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