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

Nooks and Corners of Old New York (1899)

Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre (1916)

George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)

Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal (1846)

Eskimo Folktales (1913)

The Cubies’ ABC (1913)

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)

Octave Uzanne’s “The End of Books” (1894)

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

The Golfer’s Rubáiyát and other 20th-Century Parodies

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)

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)