Calvinism and the Reformation in England. The first edition printed in England of Calvin's seminal work of systematic theology, arguably the most i...

Rare early English edition. The first edition of this translation by Gilbert Burnet of Thomas More's most important contribution to political philo...

Rare lifetime edition of Smith's first book. A handsome, life-time edition of Adam Smith's (d.1790) first published book, and his most important co...

One of the great man's more important mid-period collections. Signed by Russell on the front free endpaper and distinctly uncommon thus. The Ameri...

The patron saint of statesman and politicians. The first collected edition of Sir Thomas More's (1478-1535) English works, from his youthful sallie...

The two highly collectable first issues of the first edition of Chairman Mao's 'Little Red Book', preceded only by a special issue presented to se...

[philosophy] earl of Macclesfield's copy. A beautifully bound set of The Works of Francis Bacon edited by the poet David Mallet (d.1765), with an i...

The scarce first edition of Filosofiia Sovobody [The Philosophy of Freedom], one of Berdiaev's earliest works. It serves as a significant key to p...

Inscribed by the author. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the journalist and newspaper editor J. L. Garvin.'To J. L. Garvin,a tribut...

An excellent example of the Nonesuch edition of Rousseau's Confessions, with charming wood-engraved headpieces by Reynolds Stone.Limited edition, ...

A private member's bill presented to the House of Commons by Benjamin Hawes, Joseph Brotherton, and William Ewart on 28th May 1840 relating to the...

Presentation copy inscribed by berlin to his indexer. A collection of Berlin's tributes to great figures of the 20th century, including Churchill, ...

Jonas Hanway's (d.1786) entertaining musings on various subjects, with the second volume given over to the author's eccentric views on the tea tra...

Exceedingly scarce. An exceedingly scarce Vico sammelband, comprising four first edition works.De nostri temporis studiorum ratione, or 'On the Stu...

Choice set. Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) was initially a London attorney, but he soon abandoned law for literature. This is his principle work, which o...

Marie Stopes to Havelock Ellis. The Author's inscription reads: 'Advance Proof Copy / To Dr. Havelock Ellis / With the regards & / esteem of t...

Inscribed presentation copy from the author. A rare inscribed first edition of this relatively radical feminist work, presenting the women's libera...

Scarce follow-up to London Labour and the London Poor by one of the leading advocates for social reform in Victorian Britain.First edition. 8vo, x...

The first dated and earliest procurable edition of the Praise of Folly, Erasmus' most enduring work. The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' Mor...