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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)

Thomas Davidson

The Nuttall encyclopædia

P. Austin Nuttall

Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q

Frederic Boase

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language

John Jamieson

Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

Peter Mark Roget

Harrods for Everything

Harrods Ltd.

The Elements of Style

William Strunk

The 2006 CIA World Factbook

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

The Sailor's Word-Book

W. H. Smyth, also an audiobook

The Roll of Honour, Volume 1

Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval, marquis de

The 2003 CIA World Factbook

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Enquire within upon everything

Robert Kemp Philp, also an audiobook

Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog

Sofronio G. Calderón

Spanish, Tagalog

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Various

Language of Flowers

Kate Greenaway

Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H

Frederic Boase

The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000

Eric S. Raymond

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

The book of wonders

Rudolph J. Bodmer

A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

J. R. Clark Hall

The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce, also an audiobook

Hobson-Jobson

Henry Yule, Sir and A. C. Burnell

Familiar Quotations

John Bartlett

Novo dicionário da língua portuguesa

Cândido de Figueiredo

Portuguese

Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

Geoffrey Chaucer

A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan

John U. Wolff

A Dictionary of Islam

Thomas Patrick Hughes

1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics

Arthur Mee

The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)

the Elder Pliny

Putnam's word book

Louis A. Flemming

A Complete Guide to Heraldry

Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines

Andrew Ure

Encyclopedia of Needlework

Thérèse de Dillmont

The Circle of Knowledge: A Classified, Simplified, Visualized Book of Answers

Henry W. Ruoff

A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580

A. L. Mayhew and Walter W. Skeat

English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

The field and garden vegetables of America

Fearing Burr

Flora von Deutschland

O. Schmeil and Jost Fitschen

German

Roget's Thesaurus

Peter Mark Roget

The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History

Lawrence J. Burpee

Motion pictures, 1912-1939

Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Woordenlijst voor de spelling der Nederlandsche Taal

M. de Vries and L. A. te Winkel

Dutch

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

James Wood, Rev.

The 2010 CIA World Factbook

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

John Camden Hotten

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section T, U, V, and W

Project Gutenberg and Noah Webster