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Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance (based on the 1893 edition), ed. by Isabel Burton, trans. by Richard Francis Burton
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- Gutenberg text
Vikram and the Vampire: or, Tales of Hindu Devilry (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870), ed. by Richard Francis Burton, illust. by Ernest Henry Griset
Vikram and the Vampire: or, Tales of Hindu Devilry (London : Tylston and Edwards, 1893), by Richard Francis Burton, ed. by Isabel Burton, illust. by Ernest Henry Griset
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Filed under: Monsters -- Early works to 1800

Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de Plusieurs Fameux Autheurs (2 volumes in 1, in French, first volume title page missing; Paris: I. de Bordeaux, 1571), ed. by Pierre Boaistuau, contrib. by Claude de Tesserant and François de Belleforest (page images at HathiTrust)
Histoires Prodigieuses Extraictes de Plusieurs Fameux Autheurs, Grecz et Latins, Sacrez et Prophanes (in French; Paris: I. Longis and Robert le Magnier, 1561), ed. by Pierre Boaistuau
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Orang-Outang, Sive Homo Sylvestris: or, The Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared With That of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man; To Which is Added, A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies, the Cynocephali, the Satyrs, and Sphinges of the Ancients, Wherein it Will Appear That They Are All Either Apes or Monkeys, and Not Men, as Formerly Pretended (London: Printed for T. Bennet and D. Brown, 1699), by Edward Tyson

Filed under: Accounting -- Early works to 1800

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)

Filed under: Acting -- Early works to 1800

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)

Filed under: Advaita -- Early works to 1800

Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

Filed under: Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800

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
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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 and audio reading)
Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poesie: Containing the Necessary, Rational, and Universal Rules for Epick, Dramatick, and the Other Sorts of Poetry (London: Printed by T.N. for H. Herringman, 1674), by René Rapin, trans. by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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)

Filed under: Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory
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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, 1784), by Anthony Benezet (Gutenberg text)
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
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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
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