Biography Books

The work of David Roberts (1796-1864) remains among the most celebrated visual records of the Near East produced in the nineteenth century. Based o...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

A smart copy of this detailed biography of Lord Macaulay — the eminent 19th-century historian, essayist, and politician best known for his History ...

Emma Roberts’ Memoirs of the Rival Houses of York and Lancaster (1827) offers a detailed narrative of late medieval English history, tracing the dy...

Winston Churchill; The Second World War, 6 Volume set, complete, 1948-1954.  SOLD Published by Cassell & Co. Limited, London, Toronto, Melbourn...

Memoirs of The Pretenders and Their Adherents, by John Heneage Jesse. In Two Volumes, complete. Published by Richard Bentley, London. 1845 first ed...

The Scots Magazine was found in 1739, and claims to be the world's oldest magazine still in publication today (although with gaps in its publicatio...

Previously owned by Arthur James Balfour; First Earl of Balfour, former Conservative, British Prime Minister from 1902-1905. He also held various s...

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865), held the office of Clerk of the Council in Ordinary and served under the three monarchs of King Georg...

The Secretaries of State for Scotland 1926-76; Fifty Years of the Scottish Office. By George Pottinger. Published by Scottish Academic Press, Edinb...

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to 'The Edinburgh Review' by Lord Macaulay. Authorised Edition. Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., L...

Cassell's Illustrated Readings, First and Second Series bound as one. An illustrated compendium of 'Penny Readings' to be read and shared with the ...

Men of Mark; A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits of Men Distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in Science, Literature and Art, the Army, Navy, La...

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Including A Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell, Esq. To Which are Added, Anecdotes by Hawkins...

Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men, who have died during the last thirty years, and in their lives did much to make the city what it ...

The Elgins, 1766-1917; A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives, by Sydney Checkland. Provenance; from the library of the late William St ...

Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of a Woman. Edited with an Introduction by Gary Kelly. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the...

England's First Family of Writers; Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley, by Julie A Carlson. Provenance; from the library of the late ...

The Regent Library; Mary Wollstonecraft, by Camilla Jebb. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British his...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Beginnings of Female Emancipation in France and England, Jacob Bouten, Amsterdam, 1922. Doctorate Thesis. Text is in En...

The Illustrated Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information, edited by John Ross. SOLD Published by A. Fullarton & Co, London, Edinburgh and D...