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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt; J. H. Lobban (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama Ser.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, a ...Show more
Coptic Etymological Dictionary by Jaroslav Cerný
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics Ser.
Coptic was the language spoken in Egypt from late ancient times to the seventeenth century, when it was overtaken by Arabic as the national language. Derived from ancient Egyptian, the language of the hieroglyphs, it was written in an adapted form of Greek script. This dictionary lists about 2,000 Copti ...Show more
DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE HITHERTO UNKNOWN COASTS SURVEYED DURING THE VOYAGE OF THE HMS BEAGLE BETWEEN THE YEARS 1837 & 1843 by STOKES JOHN LORT
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania Ser.
John Lort Stokes (1812-85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle - the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 1831-6. Stokes served on that expedition and on the following commission, which was a survey of Australia in which the crew was charged with discovering mo ...Show more
ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY by FEUERBACH TRANS EVANS
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy Ser.
The Essence of Christianity (German: Das Wesen des Christentums; historical orthography: Das Ween des Chritenthums) is a book by Ludwig Feuerbach first published in 1841. It explains Feuerbach's philosophy and critique of religion. This classic humanist analysis of Christianity was translated into Engli ...Show more
James Watt - Craftsman and Engineer by H. W. Dickinson
Category: Biography | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology Ser.
This 1936 book, published to celebrate the bicentenary of Watt's birth, examines his career as a craftsman and engineer, rather than offering a purely narrative biography. Watt began his life as a maker of mathematical instruments, and throughout his working life enjoyed the challenge of such skilled wo ...Show more
Lives of the Engineers 3 Volume Set - With an Account of Their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain by Sameul Smiles
Category: Reference | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology Ser.
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he bega ...Show more
Lives of the Engineers - With an Account of Their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain by Sameul Smiles
Category: Reference | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology Ser.
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he bega ...Show more
Lives of the Engineers - With an Account of Their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain by Sameul Smiles
Category: Reference | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology Ser.
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he bega ...Show more
Lives of the Engineers - With an Account of Their Principal Works; Comprising Also a History of Inland Communication in Britain by Sameul Smiles
Category: Reference | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology Ser.
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he bega ...Show more
Melodies and Memories by Nellie Melba
Category: Travel | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Music Ser.
Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931) was one of the most famous sopranos of her time. Born in Australia, Melba began her training in Melbourne but moved to Europe in 1882 to start her career. She found success in Brussels as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto and was soon well known throughout the continent's opera ho ...Show more
My Home in Tasmania - During a Residence of Nine Years by Louisa Anne Meredith
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania Ser.
My Home In Tasmania By Louisa Anne Meredith, Lacey Belinda Smith (Authored by)
Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia by Baldwin Spencer
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics Ser.
This is a comprehensive ethnography of the Australian Aborigines of Northern Australia, particularly the group known as the Kakadu, and the tribes of Melville Island. This is one of about half a dozen ethnographies written before the destruction of the Australian traditional cultures. Chapters include: ...Show more