Pre-1800 Books & Documents

A handsome copy of this early book of British Peerage. The book has been professionally rebound in the mid 20th Century, in full calf leather, very...

An impressive, and imposing, large folio volume from the classic work by David Hume - almost 'elephant folio' in size. This large tome was part of ...

The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manne...

A substantial volume of the works of the English poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400). The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer with an Ess...

A substantial volume of the works of the English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572-1637), with a biography of his life. The Works of Ben Jonson;...

The Works of Alexander Pope. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes. the Text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke. In Two Volumes (b...

The Company of Merchants was formed to protect and promote the rights of merchants of the burgh of Edinburgh. The company still exists today as a m...

A collection of historical documents relating to Mary Queen of Scots, King James the Sixth, King James VI and Queen Anne, King Charles I, and King ...

Hudibras in Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. By Samuel Butler, with Select Notes by Zachary Grey, L.L. D. The Author's Remains; a...

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume I, containing His Juvenile Poems; Translations and Imitations. Published by J. Balfour, Edinburgh, 1764. A...

The Table-Talk and Bon-Mots of Samuel Foote. (With an Introductory Memoir.) Edited by the Late William Cooke. Illustrated. Samuel Foote was born in...

Miniature Painters British and Foreign, With Some Account of Those Who Practised in America in the Eighteenth Century. Illustrated by Numerous Exam...

Lochleven, and Other Poems (also known as 'Life and Poems' from the half title page), Michael Bruce, Rev. William Mackenzie. Poetry by the Scottish...

Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus. Maximam Partem Opus Posthumum. Accurate Revisum, Emendatum, ex Autoris Annotationibus... Morhofii...

Sammlung von Johann Christian Günthers, aus Schlesien, bis anhero herausgegebenen Gedichten. Auf das neue übersehen, und in einer bessern Wahl und ...

The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins. Complete in One Volume.  Published by John Grigg, Philadelphia, 1831. Stereotyped ...

Four Topographical Letters, written in July 1755, Upon a Journey thro' Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire,...

A New Account of the East Indies, by Alexander Hamilton. With Numerous Maps and Illustrations. Now Edited with Introduction and Notes by Sir Willia...

The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most famous King...

Paradise Lost; A Poem in Twelve Books by The Author John Milton. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D., Late Lord Bishop of Bristol...

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith; Now First Uniformly Collected. Collecta Revirescunt. Vol. I. Containing the author's life and his essa...

The Life of James, Late Duke of Ormonde. Containing: I) An Historical and Genealogical Account of His Grace's Family. II) An Impartial View of His ...

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume III, containing the Dunciad, in Four Books. SOLD Published in London 1764. Presumed first edition thus. Pr...

The Business of Enlightenment; A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800, by Robert Darnton. Provenance; from the library of the late Will...

Aristophanis Comoediae - The Comedies of Aristophanes. Edited by Immanuel Bekkerus (August Immanuel Bekker 1785-1871). 4 Volumes (from 5 - missing ...

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.; A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With An Essay on His Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Complete.  SOLD P...

Samuel Butler, and His Hudibras and Other Works by A. Ramsay. Published by Charles Knight & Co, London, 1846. Bound by Maclehose of Glasgow. A ...

The Poets of Ayrshire from the Fourteenth Century till the Present Day, with Selections from their Writings. Compiled and edited by John Macintosh....

New Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, And Several of His Friends. Vellem Nescire Litteras!; Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence, Volume the Fifth, with L...

The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher in Fourteen Volumes: with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Henry Weber, Esq. Published by James Ballanty...

The Life of Captain James Cook, Andrew Kippis, 1788. SOLD Printed for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty in Pall Mall and G.G.J. an...

Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica, or A Collection of the Antiquities of the English Franciscans, or Friers Minors, commonly called Gray Friers. In Two ...