Miscellaneous Books

A scarce first edition of Histoire secrète de la cour de Berlin (1789) by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, one of the most influ...

Observations on a Tour of the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland by Thomas Garnett is one of the most substantial illustra...

A particularly fine and complete example of Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland, first published in 1791, and one ...

An Act for Repairing the Road from the Powder-Mills on Hounslow Heath, in the County of Middlesex, to a Place called Basing-Stone, near the Town of...

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 compact and elegantly produced India Paper edition of one of the most important and entertaining historical diaries in the English language. The ...

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

A handsomely preserved and professionally restored first edition of The History of the Union of Great Britain (1709), attributed to Daniel Defoe. C...

This late Victorian edition of The Complete Works of William Hogarth presents the artist’s celebrated oeuvre in 150 finely detailed steel engraving...

This is the fifth and final volume of A New and Complete System of Practical Husbandry, a comprehensive 18th-century agricultural manual compiled b...

2023 saw the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected works of Shakespeare - The First Folio. Copies of that surviving book are ...

The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manne...

This is a well-preserved 1772 printing of Éléments de la Philosophie de Newton (originally published 1738) – Voltaire’s accessible interpretation o...

This is a well-preserved 1726 third edition of Volume I of Gravesande’s influential introduction to Newtonian physics. Though titled “Vol. I,” this...

2023 saw the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected works of Shakespeare. Copies of that surviving book are now so precious th...

A smart copy of this 18th century medical text by Dr Samuel Chapman. The Royal College of Physicians notes: "Samuel Chapman, M.D., was a native of ...

A handsome copy of this early book of British Peerage. The book has been professionally rebound in the mid 20th Century, in full calf leather, very...

A smart copy of this wonderful 18th Century folio-sized text - an antiquarian account of the archaeology of Scotland and northern England; a volume...

A smart copy of this sammelband bringing together 5 uncommon mid-18th Century printings of Shakespeare's works.  SOLD Comprises: A History of King ...

The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manne...

The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote. (With an Introductory Memoir.) Edited by the Late William Cooke. Illustrated. Samuel Foote was born in...

Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...

A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever as it Prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22, To Which is Added an Appendix, containing the Essay of the Late...

Camden's Britannia 1695; A Facsimile of the 1695 Edition Published by Edmund Gibson. With an introduction by Professor Stuart Piggott, and a Biblio...

Four Topographical Letters, written in July 1755, Upon a Journey thro' Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire,...

Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists, In Three Books, by R. Dodsley (Robert Dodsley). A New Edition. The book is complete, and after the prel...

Fables, By the Late Mr. Gay, by John Gay. Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, London, 1733. The Fourth Edition. A handsome copy of this beautiful b...

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, with an introductory Discourse Concerning Taste; and Several Oth...

The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough, and Deanery of Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire; Including the Borough Towns of Wycombe and Ma...

The Counties of Britain, A Tudor Atlas by John Speed. Introduction by Nigel Nicolson. County Commentaries by Alastair Hawkyard. Published in Associ...

History of Europe: From the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV. By Archibald Al...

The Kuzari כוזרי: Liber Cosri Continens Colloquium feu Disputationem de Religione by Johannes Buxtorfius, Fil. Serenissimo Principi Carolo Comiti P...

Geography Made Easy: or A Short and Familiar Method of Teaching and Learning Geography: Designed principally for the Use of Schools, whereby Youth ...

Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica, or A Collection of the Antiquities of the English Franciscans, or Friers Minors, commonly called Gray Friers. In Two ...