This is an American View of the reign of the Ottoman Sulton during the declining years of Ottoman Rule in Constantinople.

This is a brief narrative which describes the slave trade that flourished in central Africa during the 1880's.

‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, in which nations like the Emirate of Bukhara fell.

My Own Lifeby David HumeIT Is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without Vanity; therefore, I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this Narrative shall contain little more than the History of my Writings; as, indeed, almost all my life has been spent in Literary pursuits and occupations. The first success of most of my writings was not such as to be an object of vanity.

Elibron Classics Edition. 2 Volumes Sold Separately.Replica of 1872 edition by A. Asher & Co., Berlin.4 editions published between 1876 and 2005 in English and Swedish and held by 46 libraries worldwide“Melek Hanum (Hanim) [1814-1873] met Kibrisli Mehement (Mehmed) Pasha, in Paris, and they were married upon returning to Istanbul. She accompanied him to various postings in Palestine and Serbia, and shared with him the frustrations of the arbitrary periodic dismissals t...

This description of plague-smitten eras includes ancient Greece, London and Marseille in the Middle Ages and the later scourges of Yellow Fever and Asiatic Cholera. This series originally appeared in four parts during the mid nineteenth century.

Elibron Classics Edition. 2 Volumes sold separately.Replica of 1872 edition by A. Asher & Co., Berlin.4 editions published between 1876 and 2005 in English and Swedish and held by 46 libraries worldwide“Melek Hanum (Hanim) [1814-1873] met Kibrisli Mehement (Mehmed) Pasha, in Paris, and they were married upon returning to Istanbul. She accompanied him to various postings in Palestine and Serbia, and shared with him the frustrations of the arbitrary periodic dismissals t...

This short illustrated piece describes a trip from Teheran in Persia to Samarcand in today's Uzbekistan by an Eastern European disguised as an Osmanli Dervish.

On the evening of the —— February, 1835, by a bright starlight, after a short ramble among the Ionian Islands, I sailed from Zante in a beautiful cutter of about forty tons for Padras. My companions were Doctor W., an old and valued friend from New-York, who was going to Greece merely to visit the Episcopal missionary school at Athens, and a young Scotchman, who had travelled with me through Italy, and was going farther, like myself, he knew not exactly why. There was hardly a breath of ai...

A mid nineteenth century visit to Calcutta during the early days of the British Raj.