UK Interest Books

William Wallace's Kant provides an accessible introduction to the life, ideas and lasting influence of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Writte...

James Hutchison Stirling's The Text-Book to Kant is a substantial guide to some of the most challenging sections of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pur...

Robert Freke Gould's History of Freemasonry is one of the landmark nineteenth century studies of the subject, long regarded as a foundational work ...

Cultural Amnesia by Clive James is an expansive and highly personal work of literary and cultural criticism, first published in 2007. Structured th...

A handsome early twentieth-century edition of selected philosophical works by Francis Bacon, one of the most influential thinkers of the e...

A major scholarly work by Sir James George Frazer, expanding the comparative method that made The Golden Bough famous and applying it to th...

A well-presented part set of Schillers Werke, edited by Heinrich Kurz and published by Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Friedrich Schiller (175...

Marci Antonini Imperatoris, Libri XII (Marcus Aurelius – The Meditations / Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν) One of the great works of Stoic philosophy, preserved in ...

'Cynicus, the pen name of Martin Anderson, was a Scottish artist, political and satirical cartoonist, postcard illustrator and publisher. Born in 1...

A late‑18th‑century Edinburgh periodical, The Lounger (1785–1787) was a literary and moral weekly published by the authors of The Mirror, a promine...

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

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...

An original typescript thesis for a Doctor of Divinity Degree at Durham University. Almost certainly a unique document of considerable depth in ter...

A very smart set of 3 George Bernard Shaw works, all uniformly rebound in stylish modern cloth bindings. Comprising: Cashel Byron's Profession, Rev...

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

The House of Memories, and Other Writings in Prose and Verse. By Robert Murray, J.P. A miscellany of the author's writings, with a Scottish slant. ...

This scarce 1694 first edition, printed by Nath. Crouch of London, is a significant early Quaker publication documenting the unity of belief among ...

Reading in Conservation: Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Edited by Nicholas Stanley Price, M. Kirby T...

Networks of Stone; Sculpture and Society in Archaic and Classical Athens, by Helle Hochscheid. Part of the series 'Cultural Interactions: Studies i...

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...

Everybody's Political, What's What?, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by George Bernard Shaw. Please ...

The Common Sense of Municipal Trading, by Bernard Shaw. At the time of listing, we have a number of interesting works by George Bernard Shaw. Pleas...

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...

Thucydides Mythistoricus, by Francis Macdonald Cornford, Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge. SOLD Provenance; from the library of th...

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...

Proverbial Philosophy, Martin F. Tupper. This collection of poetry was very popular in its day, both in the UK and North America. SOLD Published by...

The Art of Public Speaking, Ex-tempore; Including A Course of Discipline for Obtaining the Faculties of Discrimination, Arrangement, and Oral Discu...

The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse, 2 Volume Set, Complete. Published by Bell and Daldy, London, 1859. Produced by the Chiswick Press; ...

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...

Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists; Comprising Twelve Unabridged Essays by Irving, Lamb, De Quincey, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle...

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

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

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, 1796 RECENTLY SOLD By Adam Smith, LL. D. and F.R.S. of London and Ed...