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A particularly substantial and extensively illustrated Victorian edition of John Howie's celebrated Scots Worthies, the classic collecti...

First published in 1775, John Howie's The Scots Worthies became one of the best-known collections of biographies from Scotland's Presbyt...

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...

A substantial history of Christianity by the influential German church historian Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1693-1755), whose Ecclesiastical Histor...

A bound annual volume of The Parish Magazine, the pioneering Church of England periodical established in 1859 by the Rev. J. Erskine Clarke. Its in...

A substantial eighteenth-century survey of the known world, William Guthrie's New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar was one of the p...

WELLS, H. G. (Herbert George Wells, 1866-1946). Autograph card signed to Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, concerning a "Woman's Commu...

Volume I of the Sixth Series of Chambers's Journal, covering December 1897 to November 1898, marking the beginning of a new era for one of Britain'...

The Scots Magazine was Scotland's leading eighteenth-century periodical and remains one of the richest contemporary records of the political, socia...

This set consists of two volumes in matching bindings of Thomas Arnold's History of Rome. Vols I and III only. Volume II is missing. Comprising: Vo...

The Constitution of England, or an Account of the English Government; in which it is compared with the Republican Form of Government, and occasiona...

Horace. Odes and Epodes; in the Original Latin and in English Translations Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Accompanie...

First published in 1781, A View of Society and Manners in Italy is one of the finest eighteenth-century travel accounts of Italy, combining detaile...

First published in Germany as one of the nineteenth century's most influential architectural pattern books, The Gothic Model-Book was intended as a...

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...

The September Massacres of 1792 were among the most shocking episodes of the French Revolution. As fear and unrest spread through Paris, revolution...

The Philosophical Dictionary; or, the Opinions of Modern Philosophers on Metaphysical, Moral, and Political Subjects. In Four Volumes (this set com...

First published between 1723 and 1725, A Collection of Old Ballads was one of the earliest major printed anthologies devoted to English popular bal...

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...

Sir E. A. Wallis Budge. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary. A Harrison & Sons Printer's Working Production Copy, 1916-1920. ...