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Eton and King's
M. R. James (1862–1936), best remembered today for his ghost stories, was Provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). In these memoirs, he …
Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux
Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–93) was a professor of anatomical pathology at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, and one of the founders of modern neurology. Numerous disorders …
A Practical Essay on the History and Treatment of Beriberi
Reissued here together are two medical works, both published in 1835, by John Grant Malcolmson (1803–44), a British surgeon based in India. His extended essays explore the …
Reports of a Series of Inoculations for the Variolae Vaccinae or Cowpox
The physician and botanist William Woodville (1752–1805), a proponent of inoculation against smallpox, was in 1791 appointed physician to the London Smallpox and Inoculation …
The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe González to Easter Island, 1770–1
In 1722, on Easter Sunday, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to visit the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui. He named it Easter Island. Decades later, concerned …
A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York
York Minster has the largest cathedral library in England. The original library was established in the eighth century, but nothing survives from this period. A new collection was …
Early English Printed Books in the University Library, Cambridge: Volume 1, Caxton to F. Kingston
An erudite and popular librarian, Charles Edward Sayle (1864–1924) devoted his career to cataloguing and editing rare books in the University of Cambridge. His obituary praised him …
The British Colonization of New Zealand
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862) was a controversial colonial advocate and political theorist, who was the driving force behind the early colonization of New Zealand and South …
Pharmacologia
The physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785–1856), several of whose other medical and popular works have been reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection, published the first …
Random Recollections of an Old Publisher
William Tinsley (1830–1900) was a noted Victorian publisher whose catalogue included works by such celebrated novelists as Thomas Hardy and Wilkie Collins. This two-volume …
Australia and New Zealand: Volume 2
One of the most celebrated and prolific authors of the Victorian era, Anthony Trollope (1815–82) was also an enthusiastic traveller. This two-volume work recounts his two-year …
Body and Mind
Yorkshireman Henry Maudsley (1835–1918) studied and built his medical career in London. From 1860 he specialised in psychiatry, working at hospitals and in private practice, and …