Miscellaneous Books

Alice S. Hoffman's The Book of the Sagas retells for younger readers a selection of the great legends and heroic stories of the medieval Scandinavi...

The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant presents in English the dramatic histories of two of medieval Norway's most celebrated warrior...

The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald is the first English translation of Kormáks saga, one of the Icelanders' sagas and an important example of t...

John Ward's The Young Mathematician's Guide was a successful early eighteenth-century mathematical textbook, intended to provide students and pract...

An important and substantial resource for Scottish history, genealogy and antiquarian studies, Northern Notes & Queries was founded in 1886 und...

Henry Tuke's The Duties of Religion and Morality is a concise work of Christian instruction by the prominent English Quaker writer and minister Hen...

A striking collection of traditional French children's songs and singing games, Vieilles Éternelles Rondes et Chansons was produced by the celebrat...

P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton's Bring on the Girls! is a lively and frequently irreverent memoir of their years in American musical com...

Written by Winston S. Churchill (1940-2010), grandson and namesake of Sir Winston Churchill, First Journey recounts the young author's a...

A useful collection of publications relating to the history and development of Freemasonry in Hong Kong, China and the wider Far East, principally ...

Kitagawa Utamaro (c.1753-1806) was one of the great masters of Japanese ukiyo-e, celebrated particularly for his elegant and psychologically subtle...

Joan Blaeu / Timothy Pont - Insulae Quaedam Minores ex Aebudis quae Mulam et Skiam insulas interjacent. Some of the Smaller Westerne Yles lying bet...

An original Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) from Lord Randolph Churchill, dated 1890. Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1895) was a prominent ...

An original British Post Office Telegram sent by Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) to A. L. Ball, manager of the Pall Mall branch of Llo...

A handsome and substantial uniformly bound eight-volume collection of the principal historical and critical writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay (...

An attractive late nineteenth-century edition of the works of Molière, based upon the celebrated illustrated edition of 1734 and reproducing the de...

This handsome two-volume Glasgow University prize set was awarded for Mathematics in 1889 and personally signed on the presentation label by Willi...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for Latin in 1889 and personally signed on the presentation label by George Gilbert Rams...

An interesting text containing an intriguing collection of scientific papers, this handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded in 1893 und...

An interesting text on the subject of Logic, this handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded in 1891 under the authority of John Veitch, ...

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; The Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, Volume 137, 2024. Edited by John Wade, PhD. Various authors. Publ...

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; The Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, Volume 136, 2023. Edited by John Wade, PhD. Various authors. Publ...

“This edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson is reprinted from that prepared by Mr. Mowbray Morris for the Messrs. Macmillan’s ‘Globe’ series in 1893...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for Latin in 1890 and personally signed on the presentation label by George Gilbert Ramsa...