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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...

Tolkien; Maker of Middle-Earth, by Catherine McIlwaine. Published by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2018. Reprint - first printed in the same year. ...

The Making of Middle-Earth; The Worlds of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, by Christopher Snyder. Published by Union Square & Co., New York, ...

The Interpretation of Dreams is Sigmund Freud's pioneering work on the unconscious mind and is widely regarded as one of the most influential books...

The Future of An Illusion, by Sigmund Freud, M.D., LL.D.. Translated by W.D. Robson-Scott. The International Psycho-Analytical Library, edited by E...

Olivia Manning's celebrated The Balkan Trilogy is one of the outstanding literary accounts of the Second World War, drawing on the author's own ex...

Composed around 29 BC, The Georgics is Virgil's celebrated four-book poem on agriculture, rural life, and mankind's relationship with the natural w...

A Distant Mirror is Barbara W. Tuchman's acclaimed narrative history of the turbulent fourteenth century, exploring an age shaped by the Black Deat...

Fleck is Alasdair Gray's verse adaptation of Goethe's Faust, presented as a dramatic script and illustrated throughout by the author. Revising and ...

Specimens of Mediaeval Architecture by William Eden Nesfield is an impressive folio study of twelfth and thirteenth century architecture in France ...

A richly illustrated contemporary account of Britain's campaign against Napoleon's forces in Egypt, written by Thomas Walsh, who served as ...

The Oxford History of England. Complete in 17 Volumes, including the Consolidated Index. Edited by Sir George Clark. Published by Oxford University...

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

A complete original set of Reynolds' Geognostic Profiles, an exceptionally scarce and visually striking suite of Victorian scientific educational w...

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

With Malice Toward Some by Margaret Halsey is a humorous travel memoir first published in 1938, recounting the author’s experiences in Britain (and...

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...

Philip Adolphe Klier (c.1845-1911) was a German photographer who worked in British Burma from the 1860s until the early 20th century. After establi...

A wide-ranging handbook of the crowned heads of Europe and their dominions at the opening of the 18th century, including heraldry, mottoes, titles,...

First published between 1954 and 1955, The Lord of the Rings is Tolkien's epic high-fantasy masterpiece and one of the most influential works of mo...

A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent by James Edward Smith is an engaging early nineteenth-century travel account, first published in 1793 and prese...

First published in 1823, the Memoirs of General Count Rapp provide a vivid first-hand account of the Napoleonic era from one of the Emperor’s most ...

Captain Gronow’s lively recollections of Regency and early Victorian society remain one of the most engaging first-hand accounts of life in the cam...

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic by William H. Prescott is a landmark work of nineteenth-century historical writ...

Haig by Duff Cooper is a major two-volume biography of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, first published in 1935. Drawing on extensive research a...

Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope is a social novel set in Ireland during the Great Famine, first published in 1860. Drawing on his own e...

A substantial and handsomely bound six-volume set of John Richard Green's celebrated histories of England, comprising the complete four-volume Hist...

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...

A fascinating album of life at the Royal Air Force Photographic Section at Luqa, Malta, c. 1942-43. This album features many original photog...

First published in 1935 by Victor Gollancz, The Nature of Capitalist Crisis is John Strachey's influential Marxist analysis of the structural weakn...

A smart first edition copy of Nicolas Cheetham's Mediaeval Greece, published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1981 first edition. Pr...

Pleasure in Ruins by Rose Macaulay, first published in 1953, is a highly personal work of nonfiction that blends travel writing, cultural history, ...

A key reissue of a foundational text in social and demographic history, reproducing Francis Place's Illustrations and Proofs of the Princip...

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

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien remains one of the most beloved classics of modern literature, introducing readers to Middle-earth and the adventures ...