'George Dodd (1808- 1881) was a journeyman author employed in supplying Victorian publications with the type of factual article for which there wa...

An excellent example.Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur (1695-1774) was a French economist and statistician. In this, his major work, he provide...

Fine early 19th-century gothic binding. Tall 8vo; engraved portrait, contemporary green morocco in the Gothic style, multiple gilt fillets, decorat...

Exceptional crushed morocco binding, gilt panels enclosing central square decorated heavily in gilt with floral and leaf designs, by Dauphin, Lyon...

Pioneering work on statistics. In 1790, as an elder in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835) launched the id...

First edition. The first edition of Samuel Webber's exhortation against wool running — the unlicensed export of raw wool abroad.Like many of his co...

As mentioned in the preface, this Introduction makes generous use of the works of Grotius, and focuses on the period from 1550 to 1648, in particu...

This fine, clean copy contains numerous songs and verses about nature. From the myth of the birth of the rose from the love of Zephyr and Flora, t...

In this fine example of miniature binding, the refined French woman of the early nineteenth century could find a variety of songs to interpret on ...

This lovely almanach contains, along with the usual twelve month calendar for the year 1809, a corpus of 12 short verses to be sung. Fully engrave...

This celebrated newspaper was published monthly between 1698 and 1728. Dealing with the important European events, each issue contained, sorted by...

This fine copy is the first volume of this celebrated almanach, published until 1815 and republished several times afterwards. It contains a preci...

'Minerva of the North'. The first edition in English of Lacombe's (1724-1811) History of Christina, Queen of Sweden, an early biography of this 'qu...

How the Bow and Arrow may againe profitably bee employed'. I have... shewed how the Bow and Arrow may againe profitably bee employed, and Revived, ...

The most important historian of late antiquity. One of the earliest printed editions of Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia ecclesiastica, translated f...

An issue of Town and Country published in the run-up to the Panic of 1796-1797, the last in a series of economic crises which shook the Anglophone...

'editio optima' (Dibdin). A finely bound example of the eleven extant comedies of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (446-386 BCE), together...

The patron saint of statesman and politicians. The first collected edition of Sir Thomas More's (1478-1535) English works, from his youthful sallie...