attractive plate, being one of the earliest examples of colour printing.Johann Weinmann (1683-1741) was a Regensburg apothecary who organized the ...

Moses Lowman (1680–1752) was an English nonconformist minister in a Presbyterian congregation at Clapham, Surrey. He was known as a Biblical comme...

Fundamental and richly illustrated work describing Jewish customs, rituals and costumes.This detailed description of Jewish ceremonial customs by ...

First English translation of any part of the Siddur. The earliest translation to English of the Jewish Prayer-book.This comprehensive, and occasion...

First French edition (originally published in Dutch in 1729), illustrated throughout with engraved plates, maps, and illustrations by Jan Luyken (...

The first steamboat patentee. The first edition of Jonathan Hulls' (d.1758) pamphlet advertising his pioneering work on steamboats. An unsophistica...

Originally published in Dordrecht in 1660 in Dutch, this is the first edition printed in German. The work was compiled by Thieleman Braght from ch...

The first complete edition of Chaucer printed in roman letter, also the first to provide descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works and th...

The famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-1767) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, and the return journey. the first scien...

The art of horsemanship. The rare Zürich edition of this lavishly illustrated work, first published in 1727. The work opens with a series of 7 attr...

Pieter Van Loo (or Loon), Haarlem 1731-1784, was a noted flower painter who spent the whole of his life in Haarlem. His paintings are sought after...

First edition. This is one of the most famous books on shells, by one of the most important naturalists of the pre-Linnaean period. Rumphius (1627-...

The first coloured illustrations of birds in a book which attempted to list and portray all of the British species, many of them life-size. The bi...

Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...

Superb engravings which depict the metamorphoses of South American insects and the exotic plants on which they feed.Maria Sybilla, daughter of the...

An attractive copy of the standard county history of Cornwall, by the rector of Ludvagan, a man from an old Cornish family. Includes The Scilly Is...

A neat Spanish-language pocket edition of Thomas à Kempis' famous devotional work, embellished with four fine copper engravings.Small 12mo (137 x ...

An attractive edition of the Valencian renaissance humanist Juan Luis Vives' linguistic work for students of Latin. 12mo (152 x 80 mm.); half-titl...

Dutch birds. Nozeman's work, Nederlandsche Vogelen, which he couldn't finish, became the first comprehensive account of the avifauna of Holland and...

With royal provenance . an interesting and rare work on astronomy - dedicated to Louis XVIII. Charles Rouy's 'mechanism of uranography' presents a ...