The Sixteenth Century in History and Literature

This CD contains the full text of 329 books -- works of history and literature written in and about the Sixteenth Century, including works of Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, Rabelais, Martin Luther, Paracelsus, Durer, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Tasso, Cellini, Erasmus, and Cervantes, among many others.

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Table of Contents

Europe in General

• Beacon Lights of History
• Volume 6 -- Renaissance and Reformation
• Volume 8, The Later Renaissance, 1438-1516
• The Great Events by Famous Historians edited by Rossiter Johnson, volume 10
• Heroes of Modern Europe by Alice Birkhead
• The Palace of Pleasure: Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels translated by William Painter, volume 1
• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama by Walter Greg
• A Political and Social History of Modern Europe 1500-1815, volume 1 by Carlton Hayes
• History of the Catholic Church by James MacCaffrey

Volume 1

Volume 2

• Sea Wolves of the Meditaerranean: the Grand Period of Moslem Corsairs by E. Hamilton Currey

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Britain

British history

• A Declaration of the Causes which Mooved the Chiefe Commanders of the Navie of Her Most Excellent Maiestie the Queene of England, in Their Voyage and Expedition for Portugal, 1589
• Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Spalding, 1880
• England Under the Tudors by Arthur Innes
• English Seamen in the 16th Century by James Anthony Froude
• The History of England by A.F. Pollard
• The History of England, volume 1, by David Hume
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drake's West Indian Voyage by Baptista Boazio, 1589
• At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies in Hirsute History by William Andrews
• Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by William Wood
• Henry VIII by A.F. Pollard
• A Short History of English Printing 1476-1898 by Henry Plomer
• All's Well: Alice's Victory by Emily Sarah Holt (historical novel)
• Henry VIII and His Court by Louise Muhlbach (historical novel)
• When Knighthood Was in Flower by Edwin Caskoden (AKA Charles Major)
• Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess in the Year 1596 by Anna Benneson McMahan (historical novel)
• Shakspere Personal Recollections by Colonel John A. Joyce (historical novel)
• Sir Ludar, a Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed (historical novel)
• Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
• Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley (historical novel)
• The Historie of England, from the time that it was first inhabited until the time that it was last conquered, by Raphael Holinshed, d. 1580
• book one
• book two
• book three
• book four
• book five
• book six
• book seven
• book eight
• Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, volume 2 = England, beginning at Duke William of Normandy (the Conqueror), by Raphael Holinshed, d. 1580
• part 1 of 12
• part 2 of 12
• part 3 of 12
• part 4 of 12
• part 5 of 12
• part 6 of 12
• The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation by Richard Haklyut (1552-1616)
• Volume 1 -- Northern Europe
• Volume 2-- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 1 Tartary
• Volume 3 -- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 2 The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section 1
• Volume 4 -- Northeastern Europe and Adjacent Countries, Part 2 The Muscovy Company and the North-Eastern Passage, Section 2
• Volume 5 -- Central and Southern Europe
• Volume 6 -- Madeira and the Canaries; Ancient Asia, Africa, Etc.
• Volume 7 -- England's Naval Exploits Against Spain
• Volume 8 -- Asia Part 1
• Volume 9 -- Asia Part 2
• Volume 10 -- Asia Part 3
• Volume 11 -- Africa
• Volume 12 -- English Nation in America
• Voyager's Tales
• Voyages in Search of the Northwest Passage

Collections and Criticism

• Best of the World's Classics, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, volume 3, Great Britain and Ireland
• Collection of Old English Plays edited by A.H. Bullen (1882-1889)
• Volume 1 of 4 (as a single document)
• The Tragedy of Nero
• The Mayde's Metamorphosis
• The Martyr'd Souldier
• The Noble Souldier
• Volume 2 of 4 (as a single document)
• Dick of Devonshire
• The Lady Mother
• The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
• Captian Underwit
• Volume 3 of 4 (as a single document)
• Sir Gyles Goosecappe
• The Wisdome of Dr. Dodypoll
• The Distracted Emperor
• The Tyall of Chevalry
• Volume 4 of 4 (as a single document)
• Two Tragedies in One by Robert Yarington
• The Captives by Thomas Heywood
• The Costlie Whore
• Everie Woman in Her Humor
• Select Collection of Old EnglishPlays, originally published by Robert Dodsley 1744, edited by W. Carew Hazlitt (1874-76)
• Volume 1 (as a single document)
• Interlude of the Four Elements
• Calisto and Melibaa
• Everyman: a Moral Play
• Hickscorner
• The Parndoner and the Friar
• The World and the Child
• God's Promises
• The Four P.P.
• A New Interlude called Thersites
• Volume 2 (as a single document)
• The Interlude of Youth
• Lusty Juventus
• Jack Juggler
• A Pretty Interlude called Nice Wanton
• The History of Jacob and Esau
• The Disobedient Child
• The Marriage of Wit and Science
• Volume 6 (as a single document)
• The Conflict of Conscience
• The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
• The Three Ladies of London
• The Three Ladies and Three Lords of London
• A Knack to Know a Knave
• Volume 7 (as a single document)
• Tancred and Gismunda
• The Wounds of Civil War
• Mucedorus
• The Two Angry Women of ABinton
• Look About You
• Volume 8 (as a single document)
• The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington
• The Death of Robert Eal of Huntington
• Contention between Liberality and Prodigality
• Grim the Collier of Croydon
• Volume 9 (as a single document)
• How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad
• The Return from Parnassus
• Wily Beguiled
• Lingua
• The Miseries of Enforced Marriage
• Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles editd by Martha Crow
• An English Garner: Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903)
• Popular Ballads of the Olden Time, edited by Frank Sidgwick
• first series, Romance and Chivalry
• third series, Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance
• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance by Donald Clark (1922)

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Anonymous

• Everyman
• The Interlude of Wealth and Health, 1537
• Roister Doister (before 1553)
• Spare Your Good
• The Third and Last Part of Conny- Catching by R.G. (1592)

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Roger Ascham (1515-1568)

• The Scholemaster

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Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

• The Advancement of Learning
• Essays
• Of Truth
• Of Death
• Of Unity in Religion
• Of Revenge
• Of Adversity
• Of Simulation and Dissimulation
• Of Parents and Children
• Of Marriage and Single Life
• Of Envy
• Of Love
• Of Great Place
• Of Boldness
• Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
• Of Nobility
• Of Seditions and Troubles
• Of Atheism
• Of Superstition
• Of Travel
• Of Empire
• Of Counsel
• Of Delays
• Of Cunning
• Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
• Of Innovations
• Of Dispatch
• Of Seeming Wise
• Of Friendship
• Of Expense
• Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
• Of Regiment of Health
• Of Suspicion
• Of Discourse
• Of Plantations
• Of Riches
• Of Prophecies
• Of Ambition
• Of Mosques and Triumphs
• Of Nature in Men
• Of Custom and Education
• Of Fortune
• Of Usury
• Of Youth and Age
• Of Beauty
• Of Deformity
• Of Building
• Of Gardens
• Of Negotiating
• Of Followers and Friends
• Of Suitors
• Of Studies
• Of Faction
• Of Ceremonies and Respects
• Of Praise
• Of Vain-glory
• Of Honor and Reputation
• Of Judicature
• Of Anger
• Of Vicissitude of Things
• Of Fame
• The New Atlantis
• Valerius Terminus: of the Interpretation of Nature
• about Bacon
• Bacon by R.W. Church

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Richard Barnfield (1574-1627)

• Affectionate Shepherd, 1594

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Thomas Betson

• A Ryght Profytable Treatyse, c. 1500

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Richard Carew (1555-1620)

• The Survey of Cornwall

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William Caxton (1415?1422?-1492)

• Game and Playe of Chesse, 1474
• Caxton's Book of Curtesye, 1477-1478

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Henrie Chettle

• Kind-Hart's Dream

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Thomas Cockaine

• A Short Treatise of Hunting

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Henry Constable

• Diana
• Diana plus Delia by Samuel Daniel in Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles edited by Martha Foote Crow

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Samuel Daniel

• Delia, plus Diana by Henry Constable, in Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles edited by Martha Foote Crow

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Michael Drayton

• Endimion and Phoebe
• Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, chosen and edited by Cyril Brett

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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

• Lawes and Ordinances Militarie

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Queen Elizabeth I

• Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
• Speech to Her Last Parliament (the Golden Speech)

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Sir Thomas Elyot

• The Boke named The Governour

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Giles Fletcher

• Licia plus Phillis by Thomas Lodge in Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles edited by Martha Foote Crow

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George Gascoigne

• The Steele Glas

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Everard Guilpin

• Skialetheia. 1598.

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Robert Greene

• Greene's Groat's Worth of Wit

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Lady Jane Grey

• Proclamation Of Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England, 1553 (short)

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Sir Thomas Hoby

• The Book of the Courtier by Count Baldessar Castilio, translated to English by Sir Thomas Hoby

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Alexander Hume

• Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue

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William Kemp

• Nine Daies Wonder (short)

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Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)

• The Spanish Tragedie (play)

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Thomas Lodge

• Phillis plus Licia by Giles Fletcher in Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles edited by Martha Foote Crow
• Rosalynde

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John Lydgate

• The Assemble of Goddes, 1500

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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

• Dr. Faustus (play)
• Edward the Second
• Hero and Leander
• Hero and Leander and Other Poems
• The Jew of Malta (play)
• Massacre at Paris (play)
• Tamburlaine the Great, part 1 (play)
• Tamburlaine the Great, part 2 (play)
• Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (with Thomas Nash), 1594
• Works of Chritopher Marlowe, volume 3 (Hero and Leander, Ovid's Elegies, Epigrams, First book of Lucan, Passionate Shepherd)

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Thomas More (1478-1535)

• Complete Poems
• Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, 1557
• Richard III
• Utopia

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Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

• Pierce Pennilesse
• Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage (with Christopher Marlowe), 1594
• The Unfortunate Traveller or the Life of Jack Wilton

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John Norden

• Vicisstiduo Rerum

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William Percy

• Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (short)

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George Puttenham

• The Art of English Poesie, 1589

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Robert Rait

• An Outline of the Relations Between England and Scotland 500-1707

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• plays -- the Mobey electronic edition
• All's Well that Ends Well
• Antony and Cleopatra
• As You Like It
• Comedy of Errors
• Coriolanus
• Cymbeline
• Hamlet
• Henry IV Part 1
• Henry IV Part 2
• Henry V
• Henry VI Part 1
• Henry VI Part 2
• Henry VI Part 3
• Henry VIII
• Julius Caesar
• King John
• King Lear
• Love's Labor Lost
• Macbeth
• Measure for Measure
• Merchant of Venice
• Merry Wives of Windsor
• Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Othello
• Pericles Prince of Tyre
• Richard II
• Richard III
• Romeo and Juliet
• Taming of the Shrew
• Tempest
• Timon of Athens
• Titus Andronicus
• Troilus and Cressida
• Twelfth Night
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Winter's Tale
• plays -- the first folio (35 plays in a single document)
• plays attritubuted in part to Shakespeare
• Comedy of Mucedorus
• Faire Em
• King Edward III
• Life and Death of Lord Cromwell
• The London Prodigal
• The Merry Devill
• The Puritaine Widdow
• Two Noble Kinsmen
• Sir Thomas More
• Tragedy of Locrine
• A Yorkshire Tragedy
• poetry
• Lover's Complaint
• Passionate Pilgrim
• Rape of Lucrece
• Sonnets
• Venus and Adonis
• related materials
• The Age of Shakespeare by algernon Swinburne
• Bacon is Shake-speare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
• Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit
• Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
• glossary
• Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain
• The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris
• Notes to Shakespeare, Volume 1, Comedies by Samuel Johnson
• The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Charles Dudley Warner
• The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare by Delia Bacon
• Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
• Shakespeare and Precious Stones by George Frederick Kunz
• Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown by Andrew Lang
• Shakespeare und die Bacon-Mythen (in German) by Kuno Fischer
• Shakespeare's Bones by C.M. Ingleby
• Shakespeare and the Modern Stage by Signey Lee
• Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
• Shakespeare and Music by Edward Naylor
• Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C. Bradley, 1919
• Some Account of the Life of William Shakespear by Nicholas Rowe, 1709
• The Tragedie of Hamlet: a Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
• Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

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Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke

• Tragedie of Antonie by Robert Garnier, translated by Mary Sidney

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Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

• Astrophel and Stella
• Defence of Poesie
• Lady of May (short poem)

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Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

• Amoretti and Epithalamion
• Astrophel and Stella
• Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
• Complaints
• Daphnaïda
• The Faerie Queene
• Letter to Raleigh
• Mutabilitie Cantos
• Hymnes
• Letters to Gabriel Harvey
• Mother Hubberd's Tale
• Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, volume 5 (1860)
• Prothalamion
• The Ruines of Time
• The Shephearde's Calender
• Sonnets
• Teares of the Muses
• View of the Present State of Ireland
• Virgil's Gnat
• About Edmund Spenser
• A Biography of Edmund Spenser by John Hales

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Thomas Wilson

• The Arte of Rhetorique

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France

• Franco-Gallia or an Account of the Antient Free State of France by Francis Hotoman, 1574
• Le Catalogue des Livres Censurez par la Faculte de Theologie de Paris, 1544
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality by Charles Morris, volume 6, French
• Exiled for the Faith, a Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by W.H.G. Kingston (historical novel)

Alexandre Dumas (historical novels set in the 16th century)

• La Reine Margot (in French)
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Chicot the Jester (translation of La Dame de Monsoreau)
• The Forty-Five Guardsmen

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Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre (1492-1549)

• Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, Written by Herself, Being Historic Memoirs of the Courts of France and Navarre (3 volumes in one file)
• Heptameron (in English)
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5

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Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

• Essays, translated to English by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Volume 8
• Volume 9
• Volume 10

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Francois Rabelais (1483-1553)

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux

• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Book 5

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Germany

Martin Luther (1483-1546) and the Lutheran Church

• 95 Theses by Martin Luther (short)
• Augsburg Confession by Philip Melancthon (short)
• Augsburg Confession in Latin and German by Philip Melancthon
• An Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philip Melancthon
• Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther
• Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther
• An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism by Joseph Stump, 1910
• The Large Catechism by Martin Luther
• Life of Luther by Julius Kostlin
• Little Instruction Book by Martin Luther (short)
• Open Letter on Translating by Martin Luther (short)
• Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther, translated by Captain Henry Bell
• The Smalcald Articles by Martin Luther (short)
• Treatise on Good Works by Martin Luther

Theophrastus Paracelsus (1493-1541)

• The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists
• The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers
• Coelum Philosophorum
• The Aurora of the Philosophers
• Alchemical Catechism

Albrecht Durer (1471-1518)

• Albrecht Durer's Records [letters/memoirs] of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
• Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore

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India

• Akbar, Emperor of India: a Picture of Life and Customs from the Sixteenth Century by Richard von Garbe

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Italy

• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
• Jerome Cardan, a Biographical Study by W.G. Waters
• The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas (from Celebrated Crimes)
• Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley

Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

• In Italian with accents Orlando Furioso
• In Italian without accents, Orlando Furioso
• In English translation:  Orlando Furioso

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)

• The Heroic Enthusiasts
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater (short)

Michael Angelo Buonarroti (1475-1567)

• The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella, translated by John Symonds

Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)

• The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Bunarroti and Tommaso Campanella, translated by John Symonds

Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)

• Autobiography

Francesco Colonna (?-1527)

• Hypnerotomachia: the Strife of Love in a Dream by Francesco Colonna, 1592

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice Brockwell

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Volume 1

Volume 2

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

• Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini (short)
• The Art of War translated by Peter Whitehouse (1560) and the Prince translated by Edward Dacres (1640)
• The History of Florence
• Life of Castruccio Castracani of Luccai (short)
• The Prince
• Discourses on the First 10 Books of Livy

Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)

• Jerusalem Delivered translated to English by Edward Fairfax

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Japan

• Tales of the Tokugawa
• volume 1
• volume 2

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Netherlands

John Lothrop Motley

• Rise of the Dutch Republic 1555-66 (10 volumes in one file)
• Rise of the Dutch Republic 1566-74 (11 volumes in one file)
• Rise of the Dutch Republic 1574-84 (11 volumes in one file)
• History of the United Netherlands 1584-86 (10 volumes in one file)
• History of the United Netherlands 1586-89 (11 volumes in one file)
• History of the United Netherlands 1590-99 (11 volumes in one file)
• History of the Revolt of the Netherlands by Frederick Schiller
• Holland: The History of the Netherlands by Thomas Colley Grattan

Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)

• The Colloquies of Erasmus, translated by N. Bailey
• A Merry Dialogue
• The Praise of Folly, translated by John Wilson, 1668
• Selections from Erasmus edited by P.S. Allen
• Two Dyaloges
• A Very Pleasaunt and Fruitful Dialogue, translated 1545

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Philippines

• Doctrina Christiana, first book printed in the Phillipines, 1593
• The Philippine Islands 1493-1898
• volume 1 1493-1529
• volume 2 1521-1569
• volume 3 1569-1576
• volume 4 1576-1582
• volume 5 1582-1583
• volume 6 1583-1588
• volume 7 1588-1591
• volume 8 1591-1593
• volume 9 1593-1597
• volume 10 1597-1599
• volume 11 1599-1602

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Spain and Latin America

• Christopher Columbus by Filson Young
• Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving
• volume 2
• Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida
• History of the Conquest of Peru by William Prescott
• History of the Incas by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
• History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella by William Prescott
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Maya Chronicles edited by Daniel Brinton
• The Treasure of the Incas by G.A. Henty (historical novel)

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

• Don Quixote
• in English
• in Spanish

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Switzerland

Calvinist

• The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women by John Knox, originally published in 1558, edition of 1878

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Pacific

• Adventures in Southern Seas, a tale of the sixteenth century by George Forbes