In the original dust-jacket. The second volume of Churchill's autobiography including his early political career, the First World War...Gallipoli, ...

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

An excellent example in contemporary hand-colour of this satire on the pace of technological and social change from William Heath's (d.1840) celeb...

The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...

A superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War. It is still regarded as a defining work of twentieth-century history, r...

The first authoritative account of british nuclear research and policy. First editions, possible second impression of the first volume, which has n...

In essence a 'new work'. The second edition, substantially revised and in essence a 'new work' in which Malthus defends his views against a host of...

Onlaid brown morocco by Bayntun-Riviere. A finely bound example of The Golden Cockerel Press edition of Thomas More's important contribution to Eng...

[politics] signed by 'The Iron Lady'. A fine, signed copy of the limited edition of only 250 copies.Limited First Edition, number 44 of 250 copies,...

Jewish enfranchisement before emancipation. An important record of Jewish enfranchisement in the wake of the Great Reform Act of 1832, containing s...

Three parliamentary papers presented to the Houses of Parliament in July 1867 on the persecution of Jews in Iași, Moldavia. In a series of telegra...

A sammelband of seven political pamphlets from the pen of the satirist and champion of the free press, William Hone (1780-1842), with illustration...

First trade edition, preceded only by a small number of copies printed in folio for official use; the folio copies were issued in August 1810, the...

Two of these leaflets are described by Woods (A18/1 and A18/2) and both have sections for personal details of prospective applicants to apply to j...

One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...

Satire attacking government and stock-jobbers. A satirical riff on the English nursery rhyme The House that Jack Built, criticising the economic po...

'God Irrevocably Fixed the Boundaries of IRELAND'. A rare political pamphlet promoting the first American bond-drive to finance the newly declared ...

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