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Twenty-six years reminiscences of Scotch grouse moors / by W.A. Adams ; the illustrations drawn by C. Whymper.

The ancient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred years after Christ / written in the Greek tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius ... Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the lives and ends of the prophets, apostles, and LXX. disciples ... translated ... by Meredith Hanmer ... Hereunto is added Eusebius his Life of Constantine in four books. With Constantines Oration to the clergie.

Sixty-six years of curling: being the records of the North Woodside Curling Club, from 1820 till 1886, with biographical notes and list of the members / edited by ... John Crawford.

Red in tooth and claw : twenty-six years in Communist Chinese prisons / Pu Ning.

The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ / wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories.

Letters of Anna Seward : written between the years 1784 and 1807 / [Edited by Archibold Constable the Elder. With plates].

Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Persia : undertaken by order of the government of France, during the first six years of the Republic / by G.A. Olivier, member of the National Institute of the Society of Agriculture of the Department of the Seine, &c. &c. Illustrated by engravings, consisting of human figures, animals, plants, maps, plans, &c. &c. To which is prefixed a map of Greece, of the archipelago, and of a part of Asia Minor. Translated from the French.

Atlas to illustrate the travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia, undertaken by order of the government of France, during the first six years of the republic / by G.A. Olivier.

Memoirs of the life of David Garrick : interspersed with characters and anacdotes of his theatrical contemporaries; the whole forming a history of the stage; which includes a period of thirty-six years / by Thomas Davies.

Awful disclosures of Maria Monk : as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a black nun, in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal, with additional information and confirmation / To which is added, The nun; or Six months residence in a convent, by Rebecca Theresa Reed.

Polynesian researches, : during a residence of nearly eight years in the Society and Sandwich Islands. / By William Ellis.

The history of the world : the second part in six books, being a continuation of famous history of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight : beginning where he left viz at the end of the Macedonian kingdom, and deduced to these later-times : that is from the year of the world 3806, or 160 years before Christ till the end of the year 1640 after Christ / by Alexander Ross ; wherein the most remarkable passages of those times both ecclesiasticall and civill, in the greatest states, empires, and kingdomes, are represented ; together with a chronologie of those times and an alphabeticall-table by the author.

The life of Napoleon Bonaparte, once emperor of the French, who died in exile at St. Helena, after a captivity of six years' duration : From the French of M. de Bourrienne, Segur, and Las Cases, with a continuation down to his second interment in 1840 / by W. Hodson.

A brief memoir of Mrs. Jane Pallister of Preston, near Hull, who was a consistent Member of the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, upwards of fifty-six years, with a faithful account of the wonderful appearances after her decease / John Pallister.

Six sermons on the study of the Holy Scriptures, their nature, interpretation, and some of their most important doctrines : preached before the University of Cambridge, in the years 1827-8. To which are annexed two dissertations: the first on the reasonableness of the Orthodox views of Christianity, as opposed to the rationalism of Germany ; the second on the interpretation of prophecy generally, with an original exposition of the Book of Revelation ; shewing that the whole of that remarkable prophecy has long ago been fulfilled. / By the Rev. S. Lee, B.D. D.D. of the University of Halle, honorary member of the Asiatic Society of Paris, honorary associate and F.R.S.L., M.R.A.S., F.C.P.S., chaplain to His Majesty's town gaol, and professor of Arabic in the University, of Cambridge.

The scenery of England and Wales, its character and origin ; being an attempt to trace the nature of the geological causes, especially denudation, by which the physical features of the country have been produced : founded on the results of many years' personal observations, and illustrated by eighty-six woodcuts, including sections, and views of scenery from original sketches or from photographs / by D. Mackintosh.

The queen's quair : or, The six years' tragedy / Maurice Henry Hewlett.

Six years in Europe : sequel to Thirty years in the harem / the autobiographical notes of Melek-Hanum, wife of H. H. Kibrizli-Mehemet-Pasha. Ed. by L. A. Chamerovzow.