Books Chronologically

There are many ways to browse the collection:

  • This page lists all of the items in the collection, sorted by age and organized by century.
  • Or take a look at the featured highlights, items that I think are the most interested in the collection.
  • Lastly, you can explore the collection through several particular themes.

15th Century

Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)

16th Century

XXVII Lectures, or Readings, Upon Part of the Epistle Written to the Hebrews (1590)

17th Century

The Religion of Protestants (1638)

18th Century

Luz de Verdades Catolicas (1722)

The Book of Common Prayer (1751)

British Zoology (1776)

19th Century

The Works of the Right Honorable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803)

An Analytical View of the Animal Economy (1808)

Notes on the Parables of the New Testament (1812)

The Grammar School Reader (1848)

The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollet (1857)

Elements of Logic (1857)

Tommy Hickup (1868)

Young America Abroad: Up the Baltic (1873)

Thackeray’s Works: Vanity Fair (1873)

Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society (1878)

Vale of Cedars (1884)

The Physiology and Hygiene of the House in Which We Live (1887)

Handy Literal Translations: The Works of Horace (1890)

The Court of the Empress Josephine (1891)

Extinct Monsters (1893)

Masterpieces of American Literature (1897)

Mulvaney Stories (1898)

20th Century

The Prairie (1900)

The Woodcarver of ‘Lympus (1905)

Longfellow’s Complete Poems (1906)

Heretics (1906)

The Rover Boys: On The Plains (1907)

Richard Carvel (1912)

The Works of O. Henry (1912 / 1913)

Selections from The Southern Poets (1913)

The Pioneers (1915)

Woman Suffrage: History, Arguments, Results (1916)

Theodore Roosevelt’s Letter to His Children (1919)

Mince Pie (1919)

Little Women (1923)

Mäzli: A Story of the Swiss Valleys (1923)

The Bobbsey Twins At Cedar Camp (1926)

Stories of the Great Hymns of the Church (1926)

Little Nature Library: Animals and Butterflies (1926)

We (1927)

The Dilemma of American Music (1928)

The Delight of Great Books (1928)

Little Nature Library: Birds & Wild Flowers (1932)

The Modern Chess Primer (1933)

The Next Hundred Years (1936)

The Bobbsey Twins at Lighthouse Point and the Ice Carnival (1939, 1941)

Leaves of Grass (1940)

A Political and Cultural History of Modern Europe, Volume 1 (1948)