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...

One of the great man's more important mid-period collections. Signed by Russell on the front free endpaper and distinctly uncommon thus. The Ameri...

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

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'. The two highly collectable first issues of the first edition of Chairman Mao's 'Little Red Book'...

[philosophy] earl of Macclesfield's copy. A beautifully bound set of The Works of Francis Bacon edited by the poet David Mallet (d.1765), with an i...

The scarce first edition of Filosofiia Sovobody [The Philosophy of Freedom], one of Berdiaev's earliest works. It serves as a significant key to p...

First dated edition & earliest procurable edition of Erasmus' In Praise of Folly. The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' Moriae Encomium, a...

Inscribed by the author. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the journalist and newspaper editor J. L. Garvin.'To J. L. Garvin,a tribut...

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...