Seltzer Books: 1134 books

According to Wikipedia: "Mother Alphonsa was born on May 20, 1851 to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia Hawthorne, and baptised as Rose Hawthorne… After her father's death in 1864, she tried to become an author, like him. She wrote book of poems, Along the Shore, which was published in 1888....

According to Wikipedia: "Frank Preston Stearns (1846-1917), the son of abolitionist George Luther Stearns, was a writer and abolitionist from Massachusetts during the 19th century. In addition to collaborating with Elizur Wright in ambitious abolitionist projects, such as the American Anti-Slavery...

A collection of 15 pictures (in black and white) with a portrait of the painter with Introduction and interpretation by Estelle Hurll. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He...

Canadian novel, first published in 1836. According to Wikipedia: "Sam Slick is a character created in 1835 by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Nova Scotian judge and author. With his wry wit and Yankee voice, Sam Slick of Slicksville put forward his views on "human nature" in a regular...

Parodies, including: Rupert the Resembler, The Stolen Cigar Case, Golly and the Christian, The Adventures of John Longbowe, Don'l Borem, Stories Three, and "Zut-Ski" the Problem of a Wicked Feme Sole. According to Wikipedia: "Bret Harte (August 25, 1836[2] May 6, 1902) was an American...

A collection of 15 pictures (black and white) and a portrait of the painter, with introduction and interpretation by Estelle Hurll. According to Wikipedia: " Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA (7 March 1802 1 October 1873) was an English painter, well known for his paintings of animals—particularly...

A collection of 15 pictures (in black and white) with a portrait of the painter with Introduction and interpretation by Estelle Hurll. According to Wikipedia: "Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect...

A collection of 15 pictures and a supposed portrait of the painter (in black and white), with introduction and interpretation by Estelle M. Hurll. According to Wikipedia: "Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 March 5, 1534), usually known as Correggio, was the foremost painter of the Parma...

According to Wikipedia: "Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 July 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist associated with the American transcendental movement. She was the first full-time female book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States."

First published in 1859. Biographies of ten Italian women -- Saint Catherine of Siena, Caterina Sforza, Vittoria Colonna, Tullia D'Aragona, Olympia Morata, Isabella Andreini, Bianca Cappello, Olympia Pamfili, Elisabetta Sirani, and La Corilla.

First published in 1903. Biographies of Balfour, Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery, Chamberlain, Labourchere, Morley, Burns, Hicks-Beach, Redmond,Harcourt, Bryce, Campbell-Bannerman, and the Earl of Aberdeen.

First published in 1892. The book begins: "Since it was the British complications with Persia which mainly furnished what pretext there was for the invasion of Afghanistan by an Anglo-Indian army in 1839, some brief recital is necessary of the relations between Great Britain and Persia prior to that aggression..."

by a troup serjeant-major of the Fourth Light Dragoons. First published in 1842. The book begins: " Towards the latter end of August 1838, rumours reached Bombay and the various military stations in the Deccan, that the troops were about to be called into active service, and that the scene of operations...

Excerpts from Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, covering the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and the Tulip Mania of 17th century Holland; plus the novels Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, which deals with the tulip mania, and The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, which deals with land speculation in 19th century America.