Pre-1800 Books & Documents

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

A very smart copy of this important French novel by Francois Fenelon, which has been professionally rebound in russet cloth, and presents the book ...

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 smart copy of this epic historical Portuguese poem, by Camões, based on Vasco de Gama's 1497/98 discovery of the sea route to India. First publis...

A volume with two of the plays of Terence (Publius Terentius Afer - c. 190-159 BC). He was a Roman playwright and the author of six plays based on ...

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

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

Chaucer's Romaunt of the Rose; Troilus and Creseide and The Minor Poems, with Life of the Poet, by Sir Harris Nicolas. In three volumes, complete. ...

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...

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...

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...

Heilige roemens-lust van een gelovigen in den Messias, als den eenigen koning zyner kerke; met eene afmaninge van het vertrouwen op eenig schepsel....

Index Poeticus, Exhibens Compendio Nomina Propria, Genealogiam, Mythologiam, Astrologiam, Geographiam, Poeticam, et Alia ad Eruditionem, Copiam &am...

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

Tragedie Del Conte Vittorio Alfieri, 1749-1803. A single volume collection of the works of Italian dramatist, Count Vittorio Alfieri, said to be th...

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