Pre-1800 Books & Documents

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

A complete twelve-volume, uniformly bound 18th century set assembled contemporarily, of Nouvelle Bibliotheque de Campagne, ou Choix d'Episo...

A celebrated work of the French Enlightenment, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was first published in 1788 a...

The collected works of Antoine Hamilton (c.1646–1720), the Franco-Irish court writer best known for his elegant and often playful prose, co...

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...

Anacreontis et Sapphonis Carmina, Foulis Press 1744 Greek title: Ανακρεοντος και Σαπφους τα Σωζομενα. Βιος Ανακρεοντος υπο Τανακιλλου Φαβρου. Αλκαι...

Liturgia Graeca – Biblos tēs dēmosias euchēs tēs Ekklēsias Anglikanēs kai tōn Psalmon tou Dauiḏ (The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England...

A scholarly early 18th century Latin edition of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements, the foundation of classical geometry. Edited and correcte...

A handsome facsimile edition presenting two landmark voyages of the early 17th century bound as one: The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, Be...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

First edition of Thomas Deletanville’s A New French Dictionary (London: J. Nourse and P. Vaillant, 1771), a substantial bilingual work combining Fr...

The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Consisting of Original Pieces, and Selections from Performances of Merit, Foreign and Domestic, A Work c...

A popular picaresque classic of European literature, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane was originally written in French by Alain-René Lesage...

A substantial and early Cambridge-printed Greek–Latin lexicon, this 1676 edition of Thesaurus Graecae Linguae represents an important effort to con...

Humphrey Prideaux’s The Old and New Testament Connected is a major 17th–18th century work of biblical historiography, first published in 1715–17. A...

This substantial historical work by Scottish historian William Russell (1741–1793) presents a broad, Enlightenment-era view of ancient global histo...

This early and more comprehensive collected edition of Jonathan Swift’s writings represents a significant moment in the dissemination of his satiri...

Étienne Bézout — Cours de Mathématiques, à l'Usage des Gardes du Pavillon et de la Marine. Paris: Various publishers (Delatour, Musier fils, Ph. D....

This two-volume English edition of Memoirs of the Baron de Tott on the Turks and the Tartars, published in London in 1786, offers a fascinating win...

This well-preserved mid-Victorian edition recounts the dramatic and often perilous expedition of Hernando de Soto across the southeastern region of...

A most handsome full leather prize binding combining Glimpses of the Dark Ages; or Sketches of the Social Condition of Europe, from the Fifth to th...

This is a well-preserved 1772 printing of Éléments de la Philosophie de Newton (originally published 1738) – Voltaire’s accessible interpretation o...

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