Pre-1800 Books & Documents

An interesting 18th Century medical handbook for use by General Practitioners (and also laypeople). Originally written by Scottish physician, Willi...

A well illustrated 18th Century text by the Swiss Physiognomist, John Caspar Lavater (1741-1801). The illustrations contributed heavily to the book...

A good copy of this important work 18th Century work by English apothecary, John Quincy, who trained in Edinburgh. His Pharmacopoeia, first publish...

An attractively illustrated edition of this classic work. Tales from Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales. Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated...

A scarce 18th Century Scottish publication of Shakespeare's work. Despite being only one volume, it is now rather uncommon to come across any copie...

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

The Company of the Merchants of the City of Edinburgh And Its Schools 1694-1920. By John Harrison, C.B.E., LL.D., A Former Master of the Company. P...

The Company of Merchants was formed to protect and promote the rights of merchants of the burgh of Edinburgh. The company still exists today as a m...

A collection of historical documents relating to Mary Queen of Scots, King James the Sixth, King James VI and Queen Anne, King Charles I, and King ...

The Bijou Shakespeare; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Illustrated. In Six Volumes. With Biographical Introduction and an Essay on Shake...

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume I, containing His Juvenile Poems; Translations and Imitations. Published by J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1764. A...

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...

The Distinguishing Characters of True Believers; To Which is Prefixed A Soliloquy on the Art of Man Fishing. By the Late Learned Mr Thomas Boston, ...

Lochleven, and Other Poems (also known as 'Life and Poems' from the half title page), Michael Bruce, Rev. William Mackenzie. Poetry by the Scottish...

Manners in Three Parts. Translated from the French:  SOLD Part I. Of Piety: including the love of God, and the Gratitude and Homage which we owe hi...

The Concurrence & Unanimity Of the People Called Quakers; In Owning and Asserting the principal Doctrines of the Christian Religion; Demonstrat...

The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert MacGregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, Before The High Court of Judiciary, in the Years 1752, 175...

The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins. Complete in One Volume.  Published by John Grigg, Philadelphia, 1831. Stereotyped ...

Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont, A.M., 1604-1608, with Continuous and Illustrative Notices by the Late James Dobie of Crummock, F.S.A. S...

The History of Glasgow, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, with an Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Different B...

The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. To Which are added, Some Thoughts on the late Rebellion and a Paraphrase on Part...

A New Account of the East Indies, by Alexander Hamilton. With Numerous Maps and Illustrations. Now Edited with Introduction and Notes by Sir Willia...

The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most famous King...

An 18th Century, Scottish, Christian Bible: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, an...

2 x 18th Century Christian texts bound as one: SOLD The Psalms of David, According to the Version Approved by the Church of Scotland, Glasgow, 1797...

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith; Now First Uniformly Collected. Collecta Revirescunt. Vol. I. Containing the author's life and his essa...

The Business of Enlightenment; A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800, by Robert Darnton. Provenance; from the library of the late Will...

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

The Plays of William Shakspeare, accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies left by the late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmund Malone...

Herrn B. H. Brockes, Com. Palat. Caes. und Rahts-Herrn der Kayserl. freyen Reichs-Stadt Hamburg, aus dem Englischen übersetzte Jahres-Zeiten des He...

Original Antique Vellum Antiphonary Music Sheet, circa 16th Century, Item D. SOLD We have recently acquired a small collection of original vellum m...

Original Antique Vellum Antiphonary Music Sheet, circa 16th Century, Item C. SOLD We have recently acquired a small collection of original vellum m...

Original Antique Vellum Antiphonary Music Sheet, circa 16th Century, Item B. We have recently acquired a small collection of original vellum music ...

Original Antique Vellum Antiphonary Music Sheet, circa 16th Century, Item A. SOLD We have recently acquired a small collection of original vellum m...

The Poets of Ayrshire from the Fourteenth Century till the Present Day, with Selections from their Writings. Compiled and edited by John Macintosh....