First published in 1866, this work remains one of the most important accounts of African exploration during the Victorian era.

The culmination of a life's work as Australia's statistician, Coghlan's history, published in 1918, embraces trade, population growth and land.

The thirty volumes of the Centenary Edition of Carlyle's collected works, first published in 1896.

This collection of papers, published in 1872, reveals much about the royal houses of Europe in the nineteenth century.

Published in 1820, this memoir of an influential educationalist and inventor sheds light on eighteenth-century social and intellectual history.

Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our control.

A comprehensive account of British administration in India from 1784 to 1823, written by a high-ranking colonial diplomat.

This influential 1903 book, by the man who coined the word 'telepathy', attempted to explain psychic phenomena in scientific terms.

Published in 1845, this account of Eyre's Australian expedition enables readers to 'accompany' the explorer across the dangerous outback.

Published after his death in 1862, Flanagan's chronicle demonstrates the author's enthusiastic, but politically impartial, approach to Australian history.

First published in 1868, this historical and philosophical study presents theories on the connection between music and human emotion.

In his 1902 published work James Bonwick recalls a long life's contribution to the fields of education and historical writing.

An investigation tracing the origins of the plants cultivated by humans, published here in the second translated edition of 1886.

First published in 1862, these historical and philosophical essays explore the fascinating connection between music and the human mind.