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• Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1964), by Richard Beale Davis (PDF at Tennessee)

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• Reading, writing and arithmetic in Virginia, 1607-1699 [and] other cultural topics (Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), by Susie M. Ames (page images at HathiTrust)

• Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1964), by Richard Beale Davis (PDF at Tennessee)
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 (Main Currents in American Thought v1; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Vernon Louis Parrington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A History of American Literature, 1607-1765 (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880), by Moses Coit Tyler
  • Volume I (1607-1676): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1676-1765): multiple formats at archive.org
• Points of intellectual contact between England and the colonies during the first half of the eighteenth century (1905), by Harriette Wray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Books and the founding fathers (Library of Congress, 1989), by George H. Nash and Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (second edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1932), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (first edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1931), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1972), by J. A. Leo Lemay (PDF at Tennessee)

• Disquisitions on Several Subjects (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782), by Soame Jenyns
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Josef und Franz von Sonnenfels : das Leben und Wirken eines edlen Brüderpaares nach den besten Quellen (M. Perles, 1882), by Franz Kopetzky (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tobias Smollett (C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Antiquarianism and intellectual life in Europe and China, 1500-1800 (University of Michigan Press, 2011), by François Louis and Peter N. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Constructing the Criollo Archive: Subjects of Knowledge in the Bibliotheca Mexicana and the Rusticatio Mexicana (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2000), by Antony Higgins (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the "Bas Bleu" Society (1717-1806) (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thames-side in the past, sketches of its literature & society (G. Allen & company, ltd., 1913), by F. C. Hodgson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Miscellanies (second series) (Dodd, Mead and company, 1901), by Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mrs Montagu's letters (Wells and Lilly, 1825), by Mrs. Montagu and Matthew Montagu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres sur l'Angleterre : et réflexions sur la philosophie du XVIIIe siecle (Perlet [etc.], 1802), by Joseph Fiévée (page images at HathiTrust)
• The correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason (R. Bentley, 1858), by Thomas Gray, John Mitford, and William Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mary Wortley Montagu, written by herself. (Grolier, 1910), by Mary Wortley Montagu and Lady Mary Montagu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Europaidee im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (in German; Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Idea of Europe: Enlightenment Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Catriona Seth and Rotraud von Kulessa (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• L'Idée de l'Europe au Siècle des Lumières (in French; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Rotraud von Kulessa and Catriona Seth (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Publishing the Prince : history, reading, and the birth of political criticism (University of Michigan Press, 2005), by Jacob Soll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antiquarianism and intellectual life in Europe and China, 1500-1800 (University of Michigan Press, 2011), by François Louis and Peter N. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), ed. by Caroline Warman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, c1952), by Shelby T. McCloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and History in the Age of Ideas: Essays on the French Enlightenment, Presented to George R. Havens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1975), ed. by Charles G. S. Williams (PDF at Ohio State)
• Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968), by Robert Darnton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Creative Commons reprint; multiple formats at archive.org
• Le salon de madame Necker, d'après des documents tirés des archives de Coppet (Calmann-Lévy, 1882), by comte d' Haussonville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rivarol et la société française pendant la révolution et l'émigration (1753-1801) : études et portraits historiques et littéraires d'après des documents inédits (E. Plon et cie, 1883), by M. de Lescure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de littérature, de philosophie, et d'histoire. (François L'Honoré, 1730), by Charles-Etienne Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extrait d'un dictionnaire inutile (A 500 lieues de l'Assemblée nationale, 1790), by M. Gallais (page images at HathiTrust)
• La société galante et littéraire au XVIIIe siècle (E. Rouveyre, 1880), by Honoré Bonhomme and Edouard Ravel de Malval (page images at HathiTrust)
• The friends of Voltaire (G.P. Putnam's Sons ;, 1907), by S. G. Tallentyre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical & literary memoirs and anecdotes (Printed for H. Colburn, 1814), by Friedrich Melchior Grimm, Anne Plumptre, Robert Bland, and Denis Diderot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical & literary memoirs and anecdotes, selected from the correspondence of Baron de Grimm and Diderot with the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and many other distinguished persons, between the years of 1753 and 1790. (Printed for H. Colburn, 1815), by Friedrich Melchior Grimm, Anne Plumptre, Robert Bland, and Denis Diderot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondance, littéraire, philosophique et critique (Garnier frères, 1877), by Friedrich Melchior Grimm, abbé Raynal, Maurice Tourneux, Denis Diderot, Jacques-Henri Meister, and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Une femme du monde au XVIIIe siècle. Dernières années de madame d'Épinay, son salon et ses amis, d'après des lettres et des documents inédits (Calmann Lévy, 1883), by Lucien Perey and Gaston Maugras (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophie; extraits. (J.M. Dent;, 1911), by Voltaire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lavoisier manuscript collection. (1766), by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Rhoda Rappaport, Carl Perrin, Henry Guerlac, Vicq-d\'Azyr M., Jacques Paulze, Gaspard Monge, M. Maugard, Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier, Jean-Antoine Lavoisier, Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Benjamin Franklin, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Auguste-Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy, M. Duhamel du Monceau, J. L. Lagrange, Joseph Black, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, Claude-Louis Berthollet, Antoine Baumé, Anne-Marguerite-Charlotte Baudon, François Baudon, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Archives nationales (France), France. Ferme générale, France. Régie des poudres et salpêtres, and Académie des Sciences (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres de mlle de Lespinasse. (Garnier frères, 1925), by Julie de Lespinasse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)
• L'Allemagne depuis Leibniz. Essai sur le développement de la conscience nationale en Allemagne, 1700-1848. (Hachette et cie, 1890), by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe eines ehrlichen Mannes bey einem wiederholten Aufenthalt in Weimar : Deutschland 1800. (Xenien-Verlag, 1913) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefwechsel der "Grossen Landgräfin" Caroline von Hessen : Dreissig Jahre eines fürstlichen Frauenlebens (W. Braumueller, 1877), by Caroline von Hessen and A. F. Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of my career, as student at Freiberg and Jena, and as professor at Halle, Breslau and Berlin. With personal reminiscences of Goethe, Schiller, Schelling ... (Gould & Lincoln, 1863), by Henrich Steffens and William Leonard Gage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die litterarische Intoleranz unsers Jahrhunderts : eine Rede (Gedruckt mit Vötterischen Schriften, 1785), by Karl von Eckartshausen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die beiden renaissancebewegungen des 15. und 18. jahrhunderts. (Lipsius & Tischer, 1903), by Alfred Schoene (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schleiermacher's Bildungsgang ein biographischer Versuch (W. Engelmann, 1867), by Richard Kittlitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johanna Schopenhauer : ein Frauenleben aus der klassischen Zeit (C.A. Schwetschke und Sohn, 1905), by Laura Frost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Germany (Hurd and Houghton, 1871), by Madame de Stae l, F. Max Mu ller, and O. W. Wight (page images at HathiTrust)

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