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The following table allows me to keep track of the books that I have previously scanned and converted into electronic form for Project Gutenberg. Click on the book titles to reach the appropriate download pages at the Gutenberg web site.
| Title | Author | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Life History of the Earth | Henry Alleyne Nicholson | Scientific textbook on the state of archaeology at the start of the last century. |
| Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages | Julia De Wolf Addison | A description of Mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in the early Renaissance. |
| Aspirations of Jean Servien | Anatole France | The brief life story of a man, his association with an itinerant Italian scholar, and his singular obsession. English translation. |
| Awakening of China, The | Rev. W. A. P. Martin | A description of Chinese history, culture, and contact with Europe up until about 1900. |
| Bruges and West Flanders | George W. T. Omond | Illustrated history and travel guide to western Belgium. |
| Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making | William Hamilton Gibson | The complete trapper. |
| Captains of the Civil War | William Wood | "A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray." Overview of the U.S. Civil War. Made corrections and added an HTML version. |
| Chicot the Jester | Alexandre Dumas | A tale of love and intrigue during the reign of King Henri III of France (abridged). |
| Companions of Jehu | Alexandre Dumas | A story of a secret royalist resistance movement during Napoleon's rise to power. |
| Discovery of America | John Williams | An enquiry into the tradition concerning the supposed discovery of America by Prince Madog (Madoc) ab Owen Gwynedd around the year 1170 A.D. |
| France in the Nineteenth Century | Elizabeth W. Latimer | A history of the changes in French government from 1830 to 1890, including the Franco-Prussian war and the Commune. |
| Frank Reynolds, R.I. | A.E. Johnson | Brief description of the artist and his work, with examples of his illustrations. |
| French Conversation and Composition | Harry V. Wann | A supplementary practice and exercise book for an intermediate level course in the french language. |
| Holland, The History of the Netherlands | Thomas C. Grattan | An enjoyable history of Belgium and Holland from the time of the Roman Empire until the Battle of Waterloo. |
| How to Cook Fish | Olive Green | A book of old-style fish-cooking recipes. The author is a pseudonym for Myrtle Reed. |
| Human Traits and their Social Significance | Irwin Edman | A 1920s college text book on social psychology. |
| Manual for Infantry | War Department | The manual for noncommissioned officers and privates of Infantry of the Army of the United States, 1917. |
| Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe | Various | Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and of Catherine de Medici. |
| Modern India | William E. Curtis | A general description of India at the start of the 1900's from the perspective of an American journalist. |
| Mosaics of Grecian History | Marcius Willson | A history in poetry and prose of Greece from its origins to its liberation from the Ottoman Empire. |
| My Four Years in Germany | James Gerard | Autobiographical record of the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1913-1917. |
| Navy as a Fighting Machine, The | Bradley A. Fiske | An introductory work on naval strategy, tactics, and operations. |
| New Heavens, The | George Ellery Hale | Three old astronomy articles published in Harpers. |
| Pen Drawing, An Illustrated Treatise | Charles Maginnis | A brief introduction to the art of pen drawing. |
| Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight | Various | Colorized photographs of the Isle of Wight, circa 1910. |
| Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest | Edward Tyson Allen | A treatise on forestry issues and techniques from the 1900s. |
| Practical Grammar and Composition | Thomas Wood | English text book. |
| Prime Ministers and Some Others | George W. E. Russell | Another book of reminiscences by the former M.P. |
| Recreations in Astronomy | Henry Warren | Antiquated astronomy book with a number of outdated concepts, including the planet Vulcan. |
| Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 | James Gerard | An overview of the state, published for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. |
| Sea-Kings of Crete, The | James Baikie | Archaeological work on the Minoan civilization. |
| Sea-Power and Other Studies | Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge | A series of chapter-long presentations on naval power up until the age of steam. |
| Secret Chambers and Hiding Places | Allan Fea | Historic, romantic, & legendary stories & traditions about hiding-holes, secret chambers, etc. |
| Secrets of the German War Office | Dr. Armgaard K. Graves | A story of a German spy and his activities just prior to World War I. (My contribution was the illustrated HTML version, with various corrections from the original text.) |
| Story of Geographical Discovery | Joseph Jacobs | A historical summary of the discovery and exploration of the world from the perspective of western europeans. |
| Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) | Francis J. Reynolds (Ed.) | The early phases of the war up to the Battle of the Marne. |
| Voyages of Captain Scott | Charles Turley | The story of Captain Scott's two expeditions to the continent of Antarctica, and his ill-fated journey to the south pole. |
| Western United States, The | Harold Wellman Fairbanks | A geographical reader on the western portions of the U.S., c. 1900. |
| Working of Steel | Fred H. Colvin and A. Juthe | Reference book on steel working, hardening, alloys and temperature control. |
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