Books and Manuscripts

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 scarce early edition of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by John Clare, one of the most distinctive voices of early nineteenth...

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

This small collection of three vintage guidebooks to the historic town of St Andrews spans more than sixty years and reflects the enduring...

A smart set of 2 volumes on the history of the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university, and the third oldest university in t...

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair is one of the great novels of nineteenth century English literature, offering a brilliant satire ...

A complete set of the 12 Swallows and Amazons adventures by Arthur Ransome. Offered here are 6 of these in "The Swallows and Amazons Adventu...

An attractive box set of classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories by A.A. Milne, with decorations by Ernest H. Shephard. This is a special facsimile ...

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 1925, The Medieval Village by G. G. Coulton is a classic and accessible study of everyday rural life in medieval England...

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

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's landmark dystopian novel first published in 1932, remains one of the most influential works of twentieth-century l...

Non-Stop is Brian Aldiss's striking debut novel, first published in 1958, and now regarded as one of the defining works of post-war British scienc...

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

The Duchess of Cleveland – Invitation to “Mr Henry James” 17 St James’s Square – Saturday Evening, May 7th[Likely 7 May 1876 or 7 May 1881] A finel...

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 substantial and well-regarded eight-volume historical series tracing the development of Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the e...

A charming and well-illustrated trio of mid-twentieth-century books on heraldry, custom, and monarchy by Iain Moncreiffe of Easter Moncreif...

The Political Economy of War by Arthur Cecil Pigou is an important early twentieth-century analysis of the economic consequences of modern ...

A New American History by William E. Woodward is a revisionist and accessible survey of United States history by one of the most influentia...

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

An Abridgement of Ainsworth's Dictionary, English and Latin. Designed for the Use of Schools. By Thomas Morrell, D.D. A New Edition. Carefu...

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...