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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A Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames;
[HANWAY, Jonas].Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Jonas 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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Dello Scalco
ROSSETTI, Giovanni Battista.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00Editio princeps. The rare editio princeps of this famous treatise containing a compendium of all the culinary literature that appeared during the s...
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Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis.
MELA, Pomponius.Original price £16,500.00 - Original price £16,500.00Original price £0.00£16,500.00£16,500.00 - £16,500.00Current price £16,500.00One of the earliest printed works on geography. Rare fourth edition of the earliest surviving Latin work on geography and the only treatise devoted...
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The Jew, a Comedy;
CUMBERLAND, Richard.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £950.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Jewish character debut on a London stage. First performed at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in May 1794, Richard Cumberland's (1732-1811) The J...
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The present state of the Jews:
ADDISON, Lancelot.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The Jewish community of the Barbary Coast. An interesting early account of life and customs of the Jewish community of the Barbary Coast.Lancelot A...
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Four Pamphlets.
[JEWISH NATURALISATION ACT].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Political pamphlets. Four tracts published in the lead-up to the ill-fated Jewish Naturalisation Act of 1753. The act (or 'Jew Bill') sought to rem...
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer,
[CHAUCER, Geoffrey]; URRY, John (editor).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The first complete edition of Chaucer printed in roman letter, also the first to provide descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works and th...
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The survay of London: containing, the originall, antiquitie, encrease, and more moderne estate of the sayd famous citie.
STOW, John.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Early history and guide to London. John Stow (1525?-1605), chronicler and antiquary, formed a considerable collection of documents, charters and ma...
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The Ornithology of Francis Willughby
Willughby, Francis; RAY, John (editor).Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00A fundamental work for systematic ornithology. The most celebrated early English ornithology. 'It is difficult to underestimate what enormous labou...
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Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.
BORLASE, William.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00An 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...
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The True History of Cara Mustapha,
[PRECHAC, Jean de].Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00First English edition. One of several novels by the French writer Jean de Préchac (d.1720) based on real historical figures. Kara Mustafa Pasha (d....
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The Historie of the Troubles of Hungarie:
FUMÉE, Martin.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00First English edition. The first edition in English of Fumée's Histoire des troubles de Hongrie (1594). In his address to the reader, the translato...
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An Essay About the Origine & Virtues of Gems,
BOYLE, Robert.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00First edition. The 'beginning of the modern development in knowledge of crystal structure' (Fulton).Robert Boyle (1627-1691), a natural philosopher...
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Dialling, Plain, Concave, Convex [&c.]
LEYBOURN, William.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00The making and decoration of dials. William Leybourn (1627-1716) was a well-respected mathematician, surveyor, and private tutor. First published i...
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The Book of Common Prayer... [bound with] A New Edition of the Psalms of David, fitted to the Tunes used in Churches...
[COMMON PRAYER].Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00A lovely sammelband comprising the Book of Common Prayer and a revised metrical psalter for use in church.24mo (14 x 8 cm); contemporary ownership...
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The Book of Common Prayer,
[COMMON PRAYER].Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00A sweet Book of Common Prayer bound in contemporary red calf gilt, with an early female ownership inscription.12mo (15.5 x 9.5 cm); contemporary o...
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Moriae Encomium.
ERASMUS, Desiderius.Original price £50,000.00 - Original price £50,000.00Original price £0.00£50,000.00£50,000.00 - £50,000.00Current price £50,000.00The first dated and earliest procurable edition of the Praise of Folly, Erasmus' most enduring work. The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' Mor...
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Apollo and Pegasus
HOBSON, Anthony.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00Limited edition of 652 copies in total, this one part of the 250 reserved for subscribers of the work, numbered and signed by the author.This bril...
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Origines Gentium Antiquissimæ;
CUMBERLAND, Richard.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00A search for the 'origine of Mankind'. A posthumously published compilation of 'loose tracts' by Richard Cumberland (1632-1718), the bishop of Pete...
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The True Caledonian,
MELVILL, Thomas.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00First & only edition. The first and only edition of Thomas Melvill's treatise on the wool trade. The author, a weaver, proposes that the Scott...
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