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For the Time Traveller: Early Printed Books

Step into a world where history breathes through every page. Our exclusive collection of early printed books is meticulously selected by Hannah Lessiter and Oliver Yarwood. Each book in our collection is a portal to the past; witness the evolution of ideas and marvel at the craftsmanship that has withstood the test of time.

Our range includes literary classics, historical treatises, and rare first editions, each with its own unique story to tell. Immerse yourself in the richness of history and own a piece of the past today.

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  • 115399_2 115399

    The Theory of Agreeable Sensations:

    [LÉVESQUE DE POUILLY, Louis-Jean].
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    Influenced Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments. An early edition in English of this important essay on ethics and aesthetics in the tradition of Shaftesb...

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  • 115362

    English Dispensatory.

    QUINCY, John.
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    A popular English dispensatory, which ran to twelve editions by 1749, containing a complete account of the materia medica and therapeutics.Quincy ...

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    English Dispensatory.

    QUINCY, John.
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    A popular English dispensatory, which ran to twelve editions by 1749, containing a complete account of the materia medica and therapeutics.Quincy ...

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  • 114604_2 114604

    Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings,

    CHANDLER HARRIS, Joel.
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    A first edition, first issue, of this important work preserving the oral tales of African-American slaves. Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), a whi...

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    The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

    SMITH, Adam.
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    Excellent contemporary provenance. The scarce second edition of Adam Smith's first published book, which laid the seedbed for his Wealth of Nations...

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  • 114285

    Epigrams of Martial, Englished.

    MARTIAL; [KILLIGREW, Henry (translator)].
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    The thoughts of a Roman poet. The most complete seventeenth-century translation of Martial's Epigrams into English, bound with the first edition of...

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  • 114609 114609

    The Pilgrim's Progress

    BUNYAN, John; STURT, John (engraver).
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    Illustrated with 22 engraved plates. An excellent, well-illustrated edition of this indisputable classic, often considered the first English novel....

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  • 110508_2 110508

    Theatrum Orbis Terrarum...

    ORTELIUS, Abraham.
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    One of the largest & finest editions of Ortelius's Theatrum. One of the largest and finest editions of Ortelius's Theatrum, comprising 156 plat...

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  • 114286_2 114286

    A Dictionary of the English Language:

    JOHNSON, Samuel.
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    Last folio edition, and last edition revised by Johnson. The last lifetime edition of Johnson's Dictionary, and the only edition substantively revi...

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  • 111489_2 111489

    Moriae Encomium;

    ERASMUS, Desiderius.
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    Early edition in English. The first edition of John Wilson's English translation of this important work of humanist rhetoric, which satirised the c...

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  • 112659_2 112659

    The Holy Bible

    [BIBLE. KING JAMES VERSION].
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    Original silver 'furniture'. The King James Version, splendidly preserved in the original black morocco gilt binding furnished in silver. A handsom...

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  • 113305_2 113305

    The Plays of William Shakespeare.

    SHAKESPEARE, William.
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    A beautifully illustrated twelve-volume set of Shakespeare's plays in a handsome contemporary tree calf binding, comprising his 36 canonical works...

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  • 112750_2 112750

    A Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible: Exodus XXXIX].

    [GUTENBERG, Johann.
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    Extraordinary survival from the dawn of the printing press. An excellent, well-margined leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book p...

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