First two-volume edition expounding the Malthusian-trap. The first two-volume edition of Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population, with import...

An act of Parliament confirming the validity of 'Marriages amongst the People called Quakers and amongst Persons professing the Jewish Religion'.T...

A private member's bill presented to the House of Commons by Benjamin Hawes, Joseph Brotherton, and William Ewart on 28th May 1840 relating to the...

An act of Parliament 'To the end that sufficient maintenance be provided and allowed for the children of Jewish parents, who shall turn Protestant...

Populariser of Adam Smith. The first edition of Stewart's biographical study of leading figures in the Scottish Enlightenment.Stewart (1753-1828), ...

Presentation copy inscribed by Berlin to his indexer. A collection of Berlin's tributes to great figures of the 20th century, including Churchill, ...

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...

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

Scarce. Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660), 'the father of the romanization of Vietnamese' (Lust), wrote several books relating to his own experience...

Eton College interest. A beautifully bound copy of Heneage Jesse's (d.1874) two-volume collection of biographies on noted Eton alumni including Wil...

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...

Isaac Baer Levinsohn (1788-1860, a.k.a. Ribal) was a Jewish scholar of Hebrew, satirist, writer and Haskalah movement leader. He has been called '...

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...

Sixth edition of this work about the capital's criminal tendencies, including those in the Jewish communities.This work provides a summary of the ...

Choice set. Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) was initially a London attorney, but he soon abandoned law for literature. This is his principle work, which o...