Pre-1800 Books & Documents

The Tryals of Thomas Walcot, William Hone, William Lord Russell, John Rous & William Blagg, for High-Treason, for Conspiring the Death of the K...

The History of Glasgow, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, with an Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Different B...

The Complaint; or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. To Which are added, Some Thoughts on the late Rebellion and a Paraphrase on Part...

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...

A Companion to the Temple; Or, A Help to Devotion in the Daily Use of Common Prayer: In Two Parts. Part II, containing The Litany, with the Occasio...

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

Fables Choisies Mises en Vers Par Monsieur De La Fontaine. Bound in 2 Volumes; the second also containing Nouvelles Fables Choisies Mises en Vers, ...

Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists, In Three Books, by R. Dodsley (Robert Dodsley). A New Edition. The book is complete, and after the prel...

Pity's Gift; A Collection of Interesting Tales, to Excite the Compassion of Youth for the Animal Creation. Ornamented with Vignettes. From the Writ...

Musae Seatonianae; A Complete Collection of The Cambridge Prize Poems, from the First Institution of that Premium by The Rev. Mr. Tho. Seaton, in 1...

Milton's Paradise Lost; A New Edition, Adorned with Plates. By John Milton, 2 Volume Set, Complete. Published by F.J. Du Roveray; Printed by T. Ben...

Fables, By the Late Mr. Gay, by John Gay. Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, London, 1733. The Fourth Edition. A handsome copy of this beautiful b...

An 18th Century, Scottish, Christian Bible: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues, an...

2 x 18th Century Christian texts bound as one: SOLD The Psalms of David, According to the Version Approved by the Church of Scotland, Glasgow, 1797...

Caii Crispi Sallustii Opera Omnia excusa ad Editionem Cortii cum Editionibus Havercampi et Gabrielis Antonii collatam. Gaius Sallustius Crispus, kn...

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 ...

Complete Works of William Hogarth in a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Steel Engravings, from the Original Pictures. With an Introductory Essay by ...

Original Antique Antiphonary Music Sheet, 17th Century, Item E. SOLD This is an original printed paper music notation leaf known as antiphonary. Th...

Synopticon; An Exposition of the Common Matter of the Synoptic Gospels, by W.G. Rushbrooke. Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1880. First edit...

Ioan Scapulae; Lexicon Graeco-Latinum, E probatis Auctoribus locupletatum, Cum Indicibus, Et Graceo & Latino, auctis, & Correctis. Additum ...

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

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, with an introductory Discourse Concerning Taste; and Several Oth...

The Inner Life of Empires; An Eighteenth-Century History, by Emma Rothschild. SOLD Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 ...

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

The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough, and Deanery of Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire; Including the Borough Towns of Wycombe and Ma...

Theatre Complet de J. Racine, Edition Variorum. Annote; D'Apres Racine Fils, Madame de Sevigne, Le Batteux, Voltaire, La Harpe, Napoleon, Schlegel,...

The Counties of Britain, A Tudor Atlas by John Speed. Introduction by Nigel Nicolson. County Commentaries by Alastair Hawkyard. Published in Associ...

Essais de Michel de Montaigne; Precedes D'une Lettre A. M. Villemain dur L'Eloge de Montaigne par P. Christian. Published in Paris, Librairie de L....

Lost Civilizations: China's Buried Kingdoms, by the Editors of Time Life Books. Published by Caxton Publishing Group, Time Life, 2003. In fine, as ...

History of Europe: From the Commencement of the French Revolution in M.DCC.LXXXIX. to the Restoration of the Bourbons in M.DCCC.XV. By Archibald Al...

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

Treasures from Tuscany; The Etruscan Legacy at the National Museums of Scotland from 16 July to 31 October 2004. Exhibition Guide. Published by NMS...

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...

Theatre Complet de J. Racine, Precede D'Une Notice par M. Auger, Secretaire Perpetuel de L'Academie Francaise. The complete theatrical works of Jea...

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

Histoire Des Republiques Italiennes Du Moyen Age par J C L Simonde de Sismondi. Complete in 10 Volumes (by Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi 1773-18...

We have recently acquired a collection of books of vintage sheet music. Whilst most of these don't have printed dates, there are annotations in var...

The Kuzari כוזרי: Liber Cosri Continens Colloquium feu Disputationem de Religione by Johannes Buxtorfius, Fil. Serenissimo Principi Carolo Comiti P...

SOLD We have recently acquired a collection of books of vintage sheet music. Whilst most of these don't have printed dates, there are annotations i...

The Plays of William Shakspeare, accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies left by the late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmund Malone...

Herrn B. H. Brockes, Com. Palat. Caes. und Rahts-Herrn der Kayserl. freyen Reichs-Stadt Hamburg, aus dem Englischen übersetzte Jahres-Zeiten des He...

Original Antique Vellum Antiphonary Music Sheet, circa 16th Century, Item D. SOLD We have recently acquired a small collection of original vellum m...

Original Antique Vellum Antiphonary Music Sheet, circa 16th Century, Item C. SOLD We have recently acquired a small collection of original vellum m...

Original Antique Vellum Antiphonary Music Sheet, circa 16th Century, Item B. We have recently acquired a small collection of original vellum music ...

Original Antique Vellum Antiphonary Music Sheet, circa 16th Century, Item A. SOLD We have recently acquired a small collection of original vellum m...