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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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  • Dodd's Curiosities of Industry.

    Dodd, George.
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    'George Dodd (1808- 1881) was a journeyman author employed in supplying Victorian publications with the type of factual article for which there wa...

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  • Essai sur les monnoies,

    DUPRÉ DE SAINT-MAUR, Nicolas-François.
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    An excellent example.Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur (1695-1774) was a French economist and statistician. In this, his major work, he provide...

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  • Petit Carême de Massillon suivi des Sermons...

    [BINDING]. MASSILLION, Jean-Baptiste.
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    Fine early 19th-century gothic binding. Tall 8vo; engraved portrait, contemporary green morocco in the Gothic style, multiple gilt fillets, decorat...

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  • Petit Carême de Massillon suivi des Sermons...

    [BINDING]. MASSILLION, [Jean-Baptiste].
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    Exceptional crushed morocco binding, gilt panels enclosing central square decorated heavily in gilt with floral and leaf designs, by Dauphin, Lyon...

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  • The Statistical Account of Scotland drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes.

    SINCLAIR, Sir John.
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    Pioneering work on statistics. In 1790, as an elder in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,Sir John Sinclair (1754-1835) launched the id...

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  • A short account of the state of our woollen manufacturies,

    WEBBER, Samuel.
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    First edition. The first edition of Samuel Webber's exhortation against wool running — the unlicensed export of raw wool abroad.Like many of his co...

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  • Introduction à la révolution des Pays-Bas, et à l'histoire des Provinces-Unies.

    [LE JEAN].
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    As mentioned in the preface, this Introduction makes generous use of the works of Grotius, and focuses on the period from 1550 to 1648, in particu...

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  • Le Spectacle de la nature.

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    This fine, clean copy contains numerous songs and verses about nature. From the myth of the birth of the rose from the love of Zephyr and Flora, t...

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  • Mozart des Dames.

    [BINDING, MINIATURE] - MALO, Charles (editor).
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    In this fine example of miniature binding, the refined French woman of the early nineteenth century could find a variety of songs to interpret on ...

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  • Le petit volage fixé

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    This lovely almanach contains, along with the usual twelve month calendar for the year 1809, a corpus of 12 short verses to be sung. Fully engrave...

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  • Lettres historiques, contenant ce qui se passe de plus important en Europe;

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    This celebrated newspaper was published monthly between 1698 and 1728. Dealing with the important European events, each issue contained, sorted by...

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  • Almanach historique et chronologique de tous les spectacles [de Paris].

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    This fine copy is the first volume of this celebrated almanach, published until 1815 and republished several times afterwards. It contains a preci...

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  • The History of Christina, Queen of Sweden.

    LACOMBE, Jacques.
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    '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...

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  • The Art of Archerie.

    [MILITARY]. MARKHAM, Gervase.
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    How the Bow and Arrow may againe profitably bee employed'. I have... shewed how the Bow and Arrow may againe profitably bee employed, and Revived, ...

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  • Historia ecclesiastica.

    EUSEBIUS, Caesariensis; AQUILEIENSIS, Rufinus (translator).
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    The most important historian of late antiquity. One of the earliest printed editions of Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia ecclesiastica, translated f...

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  • The Town and Country Magazine:

    [ECONOMIC PANIC].
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    An issue of Town and Country published in the run-up to the Panic of 1796-1797, the last in a series of economic crises which shook the Anglophone...

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  • Aristophanis comoediae undecim,

    [ARISTOPHANES]; KUSTER, Ludolf (editor).
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    'editio optima' (Dibdin). A finely bound example of the eleven extant comedies of the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes (446-386 BCE), together...

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  • The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght,

    MORE, Sir Thomas.
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    The patron saint of statesman and politicians. The first collected edition of Sir Thomas More's (1478-1535) English works, from his youthful sallie...

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