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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An Impartial Account of many Barbarous Cruelties exercised in the Inquisition in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
[INQUISITION].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00First edition. An extremely scarce collection of works on the Inquisition in Spain, Portugal and Italy compiled anonymously from several tracts pop...
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Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians.
JESSE, J. Heneage.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00Eton College interest. A beautifully bound copy of Heneage Jesse's (d.1874) two-volume collection of biographies on noted Eton alumni including Wil...
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An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness.
MALTHUS, T.R.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00First two-volume edition. The first two-volume edition. Contains important additions and corrections to the earlier editions, particularly the appe...
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An essay on the principle of population;
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00The first two-volume edition. Contains important additions and corrections to the earlier editions, including replies to his critics.'The central ...
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Colloqui...Latini, e Italiani
VIVES, Juan Luis.Original price £200.00 - Original price £200.00Original price £0.00£200.00£200.00 - £200.00Current price £200.00An attractive edition of the Valencian renaissance humanist Juan Luis Vives' linguistic work for students of Latin. 12mo (152 x 80 mm.); half-titl...
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A Memorial Address Delivered at the Requiem of Sir John Betjeman.
[BETJEMAN, John]. IRVINE, Gerard.Original price £125.00 - Original price £125.00Original price £0.00£125.00£125.00 - £125.00Current price £125.00Inscribed to the poet Mary Wilson. Prints the full text of Irvine's memorial address, inscribed by him on the first leaf, 'Mary with love and grati...
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The Man in the Making; The Years of Peril; The Saviour of the Navy.
[PEPYS, Samuel]. BRYANT, Arthur.Original price £325.00 - Original price £325.00Original price £0.00£325.00£325.00 - £325.00Current price £325.00Inscribed by the author to Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Written in the 1930s and reprinted numerous times, Bryant prepared the text of this extrao...
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Detour, The Story of Oflag IVC [Colditz Castle].
WOOD, Lieut. J.E.R. (Editor).Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Signed by prisoners of war. Signed by seven former Colditz prisoners of war:- Kenneth Lockwood, Jimmy Yule, Hugh Bruce, Tommy Catlow, Peter Allan, ...
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Christ's Hospital.
BLUNDEN, Edmund.Original price £150.00 - Original price £150.00Original price £0.00£150.00£150.00 - £150.00Current price £150.00An excellent copy of Blunden's history of one of those truly worthy and typically English institutions; "In 1909 Edmund moved from the local Gramm...
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L'Ingénue libertine.
ICART, Louis (illustrator); COLETTE.
Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £3,000.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00Limited edition number 307 of 425 numbered copies; 4to; 20 colour plates by Icart and a facsimile letter by Colette on blue paper tipped-in opposi...
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Principles of Political Economy
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £3,000.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00First edition. The book was conceived as a series of tracts rather than a comprehensive and systematic treatise, though Malthus published it to est...
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L'Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures.
MONTFAUCON, Bernard de.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Known to Benjamin Franklin. Magisterial work by the Benedictine monk Bernard de Montfaucon (1655–1741), one of the founders of modern archaeology.T...
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Poèmes en Prose
BARBIER, George (illustrator); GUÉRIN, Maurice de.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Presentation copy signed by Barbier. A French Romantic poet, Maurice de Guérin (1810-39) achieved cult status in his lifetime as one of the first w...
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Mary Stuart.
SKELTON, John.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £650.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Skelton began writing for Blackwood's Magazine in 1869, which he did for the rest of his life, then in 1876 he published The Impeachment of Mary S...
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Le Commerce et le Gouvernement.
CONDILLAC, Etienne Bonnot de.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00An early statement of the Utility Theory. Condillac made his name both with economic and with philosophical writings. His most important economic w...
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