Early edition in English. The first edition of John Wilson's English translation of this important work of humanist rhetoric, which satirised the c...

The first bomb hurled against the Ancien Régime'. The first edition of this interesting, outsider's take on English society and its people, precipi...

Rare edition in English. The first edition in English of these collected writings by Cicero on the origin and duties of princely government.The wor...

Original silver 'furniture'. The King James Version, splendidly preserved in the original black morocco gilt binding furnished in silver. A handsom...

A beautifully illustrated twelve-volume set of Shakespeare's plays in a handsome contemporary tree calf binding, comprising his 36 canonical works...

An attractive example, in an unusual contemporary morocco binding of The Book of Common Prayer, the third and last octavo edition from the press o...

Important contribution to the art of Early Modern warfare. A rare mixed edition issue of Henry Hexham's Principles of the Art Military, superbly il...

Restoration of King Charles II. An exceptional, well-margined copy of John Ogilby's imaginative reissue of the Field large folio bible, published f...

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 lifetime edition of Smith's first book. A rare, lifetime edition of Adam Smith's (d.1790) first published book, and his most important contrib...