HathiTrust’s Top 10 Books of 2019

January 16, 2020

This year’s list includes the magnificently illustrated volumes of Cuban botany unearthed at Cornell University in 2018, a compilation of Egyptian medical knowledge c. 1550 BC, and a seminal text on modern marketing, identified as public domain through HathiTrust’s Copyright Review Program . Many scholars, as well as independent researchers and educators, find HathiTrust through the Prices and Wages by Decade website at the University of MIssouri, and several top titles are referred from that site.

1. Specimens of the plants and fruits of the island of Cuba, Vol. 1, by Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft
   
   

2. Specimens of the plants and fruits of the island of Cuba, Vol. 3, by Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft.
   
   

3. Comparative wages, prices, and cost of living (from the Sixteenth annual report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, for 1885), by Carroll D. Wright.
   
   

4. Ancient Egyptian Medicine: The Papyrus Ebers, translated from the German version by Cyril P. Bryan, with an introduction by G. Elliot Smith.
   
   

5. Basic marketing, a managerial approach, by E. Jerome McCarthy.
   
   

6. The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, Series 1: vol. 27: part 1: Reports. Published under the direction of the Secretary of War.
   
   

7. Outline of the U.S. Legal System, by United States Department of State.
   
   

8. [Catalog] / Sears, Roebuck and Company. Spring 1910 (no.120).
   
   

   

9. Report on the statistics of wages in manufacturing industries: with supplementary reports on the average retail prices of necessaries of life, and on trades societies, and strikes and lockouts, by Joseph D. Weeks.
   
   

10. The mistress of the inn (La locandiera), by Carlo Goldoni, translated by Merle Pierson.