First edition; 4to (254 x 190 mm); 50 tipped-in collotype plates after etchings by Howard Leigh with descriptions printed opposite, minor spotting...

Foreman's Philippine Islands provides A thorough history of the archipelago, updating Jagor's classic work of 1873.Third edition. 8vo., xxii, 668 ...

Calvinism and the Reformation in England. The first edition printed in England of Calvin's seminal work of systematic theology, arguably the most i...

Rare early English edition. The first edition of this translation by Gilbert Burnet of Thomas More's most important contribution to political philo...

Jewish enfranchisement before emancipation. An important record of Jewish enfranchisement in the wake of the Great Reform Act of 1832, containing s...

Three parliamentary papers presented to the Houses of Parliament in July 1867 on the persecution of Jews in Iași, Moldavia. In a series of telegra...

The Pax Britannica trilogy. James (later Jan) Morris was a British historian, author and travel writer. Educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, a...

The first edition of Edmund Howes' abridgement to this popular history of England by the chronicler John Stow, a concise historical record running...

A landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...

A sammelband of seven political pamphlets from the pen of the satirist and champion of the free press, William Hone (1780-1842), with illustration...

Rare lifetime edition of Smith's first book. A handsome, life-time edition of Adam Smith's (d.1790) first published book, and his most important co...

One of Churchill's more important collections of essays.First edition, first impression; 8vo (23 x 16 cm); frontispiece; publisher's blue cloth, t...

A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the development of t...

This magnum opus took the ageing Churchill some years to complete although he started making copious notes as early as 1940. Interestingly enough ...

An economist's working copy. An economist's copy with manuscript notes in pencil of Keynes' first major contribution to the development of modern m...

First trade edition, preceded only by a small number of copies printed in folio for official use; the folio copies were issued in August 1810, the...

One of the great man's more important mid-period collections. Signed by Russell on the front free endpaper and distinctly uncommon thus. The Ameri...

'Minerva of the North'. The first edition in English of Lacombe's (1724-1811) History of Christina, Queen of Sweden, an early biography of this 'qu...

Royal Statistical Society's copy. The Royal Statistical Society's copy of Keynes' first published book, Indian Currency and Finance. Keynes himself...

A scarce history of the New York Stock Exchange from its early days in Manhattan to its move to the New Exchange building in 1903, edited by the A...

A scarce mail order booklet for 'Books by Babson', the American economist and temperance campaigner who founded the eponymous Babson's Reports in ...

Two of these leaflets are described by Woods (A18/1 and A18/2) and both have sections for personal details of prospective applicants to apply to j...