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Catalogue of the Library of the Late Rev. James Sumner
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos
As a young man, French naturalist Henri Mouhot (1826–61) taught languages in Russia and travelled widely in Europe with his brother Charles, sketching people and landscapes, and …
Catalogue Of The Valuable Entomological Library Of The Late John L. Le Conte Of Philadelphia (1884)
Bibliotheque De La Faculte Des Lettres/ Library of the Faculty of Arts
History of the Two Tartar Conquerors of China: Including the Two Journeys into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verhiest, in the Suite of the Emperor Kanh-Hi
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to …
Relation de l'Égypte par Abd-Allatif, médecin arabe de Bagdad
A native of Baghdad, Abd-Allatif (1162–1231) was a versatile scholar and scientist of vast erudition. This prolific author travelled widely throughout the Muslim world and wrote an …
A Treatise on Man and the Development of his Faculties
The Belgian polymath Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796–1874) pioneered social statistics. Applying his training in mathematics to the physical and psychological dimensions of …
Traité de la chronologie chinoise, divisé en trois parties
A French Jesuit and missionary to China, Antoine Gaubil (1689–1759) spent half his life in Beijing. His rigorous translations and studies in the fields of history, geography, …
Exposé de la religion des Druzes
Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838), the most distinguished French orientalist of his time, is considered the father of Arab scholarship in Europe. He had a lifelong …
The Natural History of Birds
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–88), was a French mathematician who was considered one of the leading naturalists of the Enlightenment. An acquaintance of Voltaire and …