Obscure Historical Books
Users share links to digitized rare books, historical documents, and literary references from archives like Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, and academic libraries, often discovered via random searches or bibliographic rabbit holes.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_AleschThis came from a keyword search- seems to match up. I'd be interested in reading more if OP can post that book title.
The book mentioned can be seen here: https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A00a...
great rabbit-hole - https://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf - for those unencumbered by search engine skills. 250 years indeed...
The book I read is the first link at the bottom of my message above. In there I randomly picked from the bibliographic references, just to double check: is this so?The second link I've provided above might be the us english language precursor of the book I've read. It has the same primary author and it came up when I googled for the German one. So they seem to be tightly related. I don't know if that has a comparably thorough bibliography, though. And the referenced books
Remarkable publication, The Collector. Also about History and Philosophy.
And Butler himself:https://www.bartleby.com/library/prose/1066.htmlAn interesting read if you haven't already read Erewhon.
Ah sorrychapter 10 of similar title from the book https://extras.springer.com/?query=978-3-642-12820-2pp491 is the autobio(I'd thought for a moment it'd be more prudent to offer the proceeds from UK-based web-intrigue than Russian ;)
She wrote a book on this topic.http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674032262
Well maybe, but see http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2398/2398-h/2398-h.htm#leonar... from 1873.
That's gwern's specialty. I highly recommend browsing around his site if you haven't before. It's the only thing on the internet that reminds me of a 17th century book in terms of structure (and eccentricity!).