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For the Time Traveller: Early Printed Books

Step into a world where history breathes through every page. Our exclusive collection of early printed books is meticulously selected by Hannah Lessiter and Oliver Yarwood. Each book in our collection is a portal to the past; witness the evolution of ideas and marvel at the craftsmanship that has withstood the test of time.

Our range includes literary classics, historical treatises, and rare first editions, each with its own unique story to tell. Immerse yourself in the richness of history and own a piece of the past today.

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  • 107443 107443_3

    De situ orbis habitabilis.

    PERIEGETES, Dionysius; BECCARIA, Antonius (translator).
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    Influential classical geography. Second separate edition of Dionysius' didactic compendium of geographical descriptions of the known world, transla...

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    The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury,

    HERBERT, Edward (first Baron Herbert of Cherbury).
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    Strawberry Hill Press. An attractive, contemporarily bound example of this the first printed edition of the Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury...

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  • A Military Course for the Government and Conduct of a Battalion,

    SIMES, Thomas.
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    With royal provenance. 'From the rebellious conduct of the Americans it appears to me there is a great necessity of publishing something of this ki...

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    Discours dv Bon et Loial Subiet de la Grande Bretagne,

    [CIVIL WAR PAMPHLET].
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    A curious and rare anonymous English Civil War pamphlet published in Paris by Michel Mettaier (sometimes spelt Mettayer) in 1648 following the cap...

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    The Works of Francis Bacon,

    BACON, Francis; MALLET, David (editor).
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    [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...

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    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

    SMITH, Adam.
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    First and greatest classic of modern economic thought. The first edition of the 'first and greatest classic of modern economic thought' (PMM). Smit...

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    Miscellanies in Prose and and Verse;

    CHATTERTON, Thomas.
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    The first edition of the poet Thomas Chatterton's (1752-1770) supposedly non-Rowleyan works. The result, edited by John Broughton, was a confusing...

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    The history of the court of the king of China. Out of French.

    [BAUDIER, Michel.]
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    The first separate edition of Baudier's survey of the Chinese court, which supposedly he based on the narrative of a Jesuit who had travelled in t...

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    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

    GIBBON, Edward.
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    First great history of Rome's fall. A beautiful six-volume set of this classic work. Gibbon's (1737-1794) History of the Decline and Fall of the Ro...

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    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

    SMITH, Adam.
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    A handsome set of Adam Smith's (d.1790) pivotal work of economic theory and political philosophy. The Wealth of Nations 'begins with the thought t...

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    Moriae Encomium.

    ERASMUS, Desiderius.
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    First dated edition & earliest procurable edition of Erasmus' In Praise of Folly. The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' Moriae Encomium, a...

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    The Life and Death of Mahumed, the Author of the Turkish Religion.

    ADDISON, Lancelot.
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    Biography of the prophet muhammad. The first edition of Lancelot Addison's (1632-1703) biography of the Prophet Muhammad and examination of Muslim ...

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  • 108028_2 108028

    De gli Automati, ouero Machine se Moventi, Libri due,

    HERON OF ALEXANDRIA; BALDI, Bernardino (translator).
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    A rare and beautiful work on classical automata. The rare first printed edition of the 'only extant treatise on the design and construction of anci...

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  • 107487_2 107487

    A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames;

    [HANWAY, Jonas].
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    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...

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