Miscellaneous Books

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

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...

A fascinating survival from the early twentieth-century classroom, Bacon's Excelsior Emulation Ladder was designed as a visual record of pupils' ac...

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

The Plays of William Shakespeare. Edited and Annotated by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Illustrated by H.C. Selous. In 3 Volumes, complete; The C...

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

Published in 1848, John Boag's A Popular and Complete English Dictionary was among the earliest substantial dictionaries issued by William Collins ...

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

Between about 1877 and 1912, David Bryce & Son of Glasgow became one of the world's foremost publishers of miniature books, issuing more than f...

Between about 1877 and 1912, David Bryce & Son of Glasgow became one of the world's foremost publishers of miniature books, issuing more than f...

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...

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...

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

A scarce pair of original Meiji-period Japanese woodblock-illustrated books from the popular serial novel 夜嵐阿衣花廼仇夢 (Yoarashi Okinu Hana no Adayume)...

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

Gil Blas Illustré was the celebrated weekly illustrated supplement to the influential Parisian literary newspaper Gil Blas, and ranks among the fin...

A beautifully presented book, custom bound by Dugald H.C. Lang of Glasgow School of Art in 1966, which creates a sammelband of works on the art of ...

First published in 1909, The Arts & Crafts of Ancient Egypt is a classic work by the renowned archaeologist and Egyptologist William Ma...

First published in Berlin in 1914, Die Plastik der Ägypter (The Sculpture of the Egyptians) is one of the pioneering studies of ancient Egy...