UK Interest Books

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

2023 saw the 400th anniversary of the publication of the first collected works of Shakespeare. Copies of that surviving book are now so precious th...

First published in Paris in 1719, this is David Humphrey's 1721 translation of this work by Father Bernard de Montfaucon. This folio size volume is...

A smart copy of this 18th century medical text by Dr Samuel Chapman. The Royal College of Physicians notes: "Samuel Chapman, M.D., was a native of ...

An early 17th Century King James Bible, published in 1625. The first King James Bible was issued in 1611, and followed by versions (KJV) such as th...

Three early 18th Century volumes from the noted French mathematician, Jacques Ozanam (1640-1718). Ozanam's Compleat Course of the Mathematics, In F...

An Account of the Operations Carried On for Accomplishing A Trigonometrical Survey of England and Wales; From the Commencement, in the Year 1784, t...

A very smart, complete, library set of this classic work by David Hume - abound in contemporary calf. An early Dublin edition from 1775, following ...

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...

A smart copy of this wonderful 18th Century folio-sized text - an antiquarian account of the archaeology of Scotland and northern England; a volume...

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 ...

A smart copy of this sammelband bringing together 5 uncommon mid-18th Century printings of Shakespeare's works.  SOLD Comprises: A History of King ...

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...

An interesting 18th Century medical handbook for use by General Practitioners (and also laypeople). Originally written by Scottish physician, Willi...

A very smart copy of Goldsmith's poetry, which has been professionally rebound in brown cloth, and presents the book beautifully. The Poetical Work...

A handsome set of books by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), English novelist, dramatist and essayist. The books have been professionally rebound in matc...

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;...

A well illustrated 18th Century text by the Swiss Physiognomist, John Caspar Lavater (1741-1801). The illustrations contributed heavily to the book...

A very nice example of this 18th Century guide for Young Men to give them all the necessary guidance they will need to get on in life. After readin...

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

Bibliography of Early English Literature, in eight volumes, complete. By William Carew Hazlitt. 1961 reprint of books originally published between ...

Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America; From the Period of Their First Colonization to the Present Da...

A handsome set of novels by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), English novelist, dramatist and essayist. This complete set comprises: Volume I: The Histor...

An attractively illustrated edition of this classic work. Tales from Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales. Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated...

The first of the Shakspere Quarto Facsimiles produced on behalf of F.J. Furnivall, Founder and Director the New Shakspere Society by Mr. W. Griggs....

A scarce 18th Century Scottish publication of Shakespeare's work. Despite being only one volume, it is now rather uncommon to come across any copie...

A beautifully produced book of the complete poetic works of George Herbert (1593-1633), a Church of England priest. First published in 1633. This v...

The Bijou Shakespeare; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Illustrated. In Six Volumes. With Biographical Introduction and an Essay on Shake...

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...

Two volumes bound as one; The Rules and Exercises of Holy Living; In Which are Described The Means and Instruments of Obtaining Every Vertue, and t...

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...

A Translation of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri, in English Verse, with Historical Notes, and the Life of Dante. To Which is Added, A Specimen of a...

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

A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever as it Prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22, To Which is Added an Appendix, containing the Essay of the Late...

A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, A New Edition by Mr. Yorick & Voyage Sentimental en France et en Italie, par M. Yorick. Written...

Camden's Britannia 1695; A Facsimile of the 1695 Edition Published by Edmund Gibson. With an introduction by Professor Stuart Piggott, and a Biblio...

Manners in Three Parts. Translated from the French:  SOLD Part I. Of Piety: including the love of God, and the Gratitude and Homage which we owe hi...

The Concurrence & Unanimity Of the People Called Quakers; In Owning and Asserting the principal Doctrines of the Christian Religion; Demonstrat...

The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert MacGregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, Before The High Court of Judiciary, in the Years 1752, 175...

Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old & New Testaments, by The Right Rev. Father in God, Joseph Hall, Late Lord Bishop of Norwic...

A General Ecclesiastical History From the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour to the First Establishment of Christianity by Human Laws, Under the Emper...

An interesting 17th Century Latin Bible, from Geneva: SOLD Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra, sive Libri Canonici Priscae Judaeorum Ecclesiae a Deo T...

The Death of Abel, by Solomon Gessner. Translated from the German, with Original Notes, by Frederic Shoberl. To which is added,  Death, A Vision, o...

Pia Desideria: or, Divine Addresses In Three Books. Illustrated with XLVII Copper-Plates. Written in Latin by Herm. Hugo. Englished by Edm. Arwaker...

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

Cyder. A Poem in Two Books, by John Philips (John Phillips). Author uncredited, as issued. Philips (1676-1709) was an English Poet, and Cyder his b...