“We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.” -- Margaret Fuller Woman in the Nineteenth Century… Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845 First edition HG1154 O8 1845 From the preface: “A reproduction, modified and expanded,...

Originally published in Geneva in 1634, this revised edition includes the word “Clavis” as the beginning of its title. The title translated into English reads: Nomenclature of Proper Names in the Historical Work of Jacques Auguste de Thou. Thou (1553-1617) was a historian whose fame...

“It is not the history of the science, or of the human mind, that we are to attempt in an elementary treatise. Our only aim should be ease and perspicuity, and with the utmost care to keep every thing out of view which may draw...