Frances Power Cobbe’s “The Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death” (1882)

Nooks and Corners of Old New York (1899)

George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)

John Reynolds’ Book of Murder Tales (1621–1635)

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal of a Few Months’ Residence in Portugal (1847)

Tlingit Myths and Texts (1909)

First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)

The Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849)

Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)

The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (1884)

Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921)

The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857)

Through the First Antarctic Night (1900)

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Agnes Catlow’s Drops of Water (1851)

My Diary in a Chinese Farm (1894)

John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814)

The Private Life of a Cat (ca. 1945)

The Fourth Dimension and the Bible (1922)

Mazes and Labyrinths (1922)

The Art of Book Covers (1820–1914)

Paterson’s Roads (1826 edition)

Anecdotes of Animals (1905)