This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

This illustrated story of America’s first architect is based on material from a number of contemporary sources in the colonial period. Harrison’s buildings reflect the classical mode, and they fortunately…

Die neue Biographie Immermanns beruht vor allem auf der Veroeffentlichung autobiographischer Quellen. Ziele der Biographie sind unter anderem das Verhaltnis von Autor, Werk und OEffentlichkeit, das private Umfeld, die Beziehungen…

Peter Whiffle (1922) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Framing himself as his character’s literary executor, Van Vechten provides a satirical self portrait of his unusual life in the…

Leading Chinese scientists, but also the Chinese medicine men knew for centuries about the positive health effects of genuine Pu-erh teas from the chine-Saxon Yunnan province.

In Europe, the results…

This illustrated story of America’s first architect is based on material from a number of contemporary sources in the colonial period. Harrison’s buildings reflect the classical mode, and they fortunately…

This book describes the actions of Carl Goerdeler, the German resistance leader who consistently engaged in efforts to protect the Jews against persecution. Using new evidence and thus far under-researched…