First edition. The first edition of the Memoirs of Science and the Arts, an edited collection of scientific discoveries and experiments of general ...

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 enlightenment philosophy. A sammelband of four scarce first editions by the influential Enlightenment philosopher Giambattista V...

Second edition; 2 vols, 8vo (200 x 130 mm); portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (2nd state, 1st issue), 4 engraved maps, 2 engraved plans, woodcut h...

A complete set of the works of esteemed man of letters, Samuel Johnson.First edition thus; 11 vols, 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece, scattered...

First edition. An extremely scarce collection of works on the Inquisition in Spain, Portugal and Italy compiled anonymously from several tracts pop...

First published in 1789 as Essai sur la regeneration physique, morale et politique des Juifs.Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (1750-1831, a.k.a. the A...

Foundation work of neo-classical architecture with good architectural provenance. In July 1757, in company with the French architect C.L. Clerissea...

Jewish 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...

Political 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...

A work interpreting the Jewish Mishnah (Misna) laws of the Shabbath for the Christian reader. The work divided into two parts: 'Misna: or the Trad...

Jewish naturalisation act. 'In 1752–53 Romaine became nationally known for opposing a bill before Parliament relating to 'the naturalisation of tho...

The first comprehensive history of the Jews of England. D'Blossiers Tovey (1692-1745) was an English clergyman, his work is considered to be the fi...

An Anglo-Jewish cause célèbre involving the wealthy Anglo-Jewish Portuguese trading dynasty of Mendes Da Costa. The matter being tested at law was...

The book went through many editions in its first year of publication. All are quite scarce.Second edition. 8vo, title page and last leaf rather du...

Scarce Dublin edition.Humphrey Prideaux (1648-1724) was a Cornish churchman, orientalist and Dean of Norwich from 1702. 'The Old and New Testament...

First & only edition. The first and only edition of John Gill's (1697-1771) study of the history of baptism in Abrahamic religion, refuting sug...

Scarce Ashkenazic Passover Haggadah.Complete with a Yiddish translation and notes in Wayber-Taytsch lettering, based on the Berlin Haggadah of 178...

A record of Versailles as completed for the Sun King: Louis XIV. A collection of plans and views of the Palace of Versailles, made between 1714 and...

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

Combined Ashkenazic and Sephardic Haggadah published by David Levi, one of the pioneers of Jewish printing in London. Starting from the 1770s, sev...