London: Chapman and Hall, 1867. Full Description: BAGEHOT, Walter. The English Constitution. Reprinted from the "Fortnightly Review." London: Chapman and Hall, 1867. First edition. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 inches; 197 x 125 mm). viii, 348 pp. With half-title and publisher's advertisement. This book was first serialized in The Fortnightly.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1874. Full Description: BERKELEY, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. With Prolegomena, and with Annotations, Select, Translated, and Original by Charles P. Krauth, D.D.. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1874. First American edition of the book which shook the intellectual world with.....
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1768. Full Description: BLACKSTONE, [Sir] William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1768-1769. First edition, mixed issue. Third edition of Volumes I and II, first edition of Volumes III and IV. Four quarto volumes (11 x 8 3/8.....
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1766. Full Description: BLACKSTONE, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1766-1769 Mixed edition. Third edition of Volume I, first edition of Volumes II, III and IV. Four quarto volumes (10 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 275.....
Frankfurt am Main: Verlag von Meidinger Sohn & Cie. 1855. First edition. Octavo (7 1/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 179 x 117 mm). xvi, 269, [3, imprint and ads] pp. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Edges speckled. Some browning to endpapers, small owner's stamp to front endpaper.....
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1791. Full Description: BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World, to that Which is to Come:. Complete in Three Parts. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. To Which is added, The Life and Death of the Author. Embellished with Cuts. Part the First [-Thrid]. Wherein.....
London: John Nichols, for T. Payne and Son, and G.G. J. and J. Robinson, 1789. First edition of expanded Richard Gough translation. Three folio volumes (16 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches; 426 x 262 mm). viii, [2], xxii, [4], viii, cxlix, [1, blank], 351, [1, blank], [38]; [6], 598, [42];.....
Paris: Chez Agasse, 1795. “Can Man Become Perfect?” CONDORCET, [Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de]. Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain. Ouvrage posthume de Condorcet. Paris: Chez Agasse, L’an III. de la République [1795]. First edition of Condorcet’s philosophical masterpiece. Octavo (7 7/8 x 4 13/16.....
London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1719. Full Description: DEFOE, Daniel. The Life, and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been.....
London: Printed by J. Davis, for B. & J. White... 1797. The Beginning of Sociology EDEN, Sir Frederic[k] Morton. The State of the Poor: or, An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period; In which are particularly considered, their domestic economy, with respect.....
London: J. David, for B.& J. White (and others), 1797. The Beginning of Sociology EDEN, Frederic Morton, Sir. The State of the Poor. Or, an History of the Labouring Classes of England, from the Conquest to the presend period; In which are particularly considered, their domestic economy, with respect to.....
London: Printed for John Donaldson, 1773. First London edition. This is an issue which uses the sheets of the first edition published in Edinburgh in 1771, with new preliminaries and a new preface made for the London audience. Three quarto volumes (10 1/4 x 8 inches; 260 x 204 mm).....
London: Printed and sold by D. Henry and R. Cave, 1754. Full Description: FRANKLIN, Benjamin. New Experiments and Observations Made on Electricity. Made at Philadelphia in America. Communicated in Several Letters to P. Collinson, Esq. of London. F.R.S. London: Printed and sold by D. Henry and R. Cave, 1754. First.....
Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres, 1853. Hitler’s French Mentor GOBINEAU, [Joseph-Arthur Comte] de. Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines. Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1853-1855. First edition. Four volumes, octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 212 x 134 mm). Contemporary half mauve cloth over dark sprinkled boards.....
London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1793. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793. First edition. Two quarto volumes (10 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 269 x 214 mm.). xiii, [1, blank], [19, contents], [1, blank], 378; [4], [23, contents], [1, blank], [379]-895, [1, blank], [2, errata and.....
London: G.G. & J. Robinson, 1796. Second edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/16 x 5 1/16 inches; 207 x 131 mm). xxii, [2, errata], 464; ix, [1, errata], 545, [1, blank] pp. Half-titles present in both volumes. Full contemporary tree calf. Spines with red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt.....
Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Warner, 1817. contributor]. JAY, John, [contributor]. MADISON, James, [contributor]. The Federalist. On the New Constitution. Written in 1788. My Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Madison. A New Edition, with the Names and Portraits of the Several Writers. Philadelphia: Printed by Benjamin Warner, 1817. Full Description.....
Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1900. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1900. First edition. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/2 inches; 211 x 141 mm). [4], 189, [1, table of contents], [2, ads] pp. Contemporary half black hard-grain morocco over dark blue morocco-grain cloth boards. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in.....
London: Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Sandby, 1765. Harrison, John. A Narrative of the Proceedings Relative to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea; by Mr. John Harrison’s Time-Keeper; Subsequent to Those Published in the Year 1763. London. Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Sandby, 1765.....
Amsterdam: Joannem Blaeu, 1668. Full Description: HOBBES, Thomas. Opera Philosophica. quae Latinè scripsit, Omnia. Ante quidem per partes, nunc autem, post cognitas omniuna. Objectiones, conjunctim & accuratius Edita. Amsterdam: Joannem Blaeu, 1668. The first edition of Thomas Hobbes's collected works, in Latin, including the first edition in Latin of "Leviathan".....
Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1770. “The Bible of Materialism” [HOLBACH, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d’]. Systême de la nature. Ou Des loix du monde physique & du monde moral. Par M. Mirabaud. Londres [i.e., Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey], 1770. First edition. Two volumes, octavo. [12], 370; [4], 412 pp. Contemporary speckled calf.....
Berlin: Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1836. Uuml;ber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwickelung des Menschengeschlechts. Berlin: Gedruckt in der Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1836. First edition of the first clear statement of the principle in ethnolinguistics that languages express the.....
Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1788. On the Hindus. In: Asiatick researches or transactions of the Society,. instituted in Bengal for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the ARTS, SCIENCES, and LITERATURE of Asia. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1788. True first edition (preceding the London issue). Quarto (11 1/4.....
Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1783. First Edition, second issue with woodcut device to title, woodcut head-piece (angels) on p. 3, and woodcut tail-piece (rod with leaves) on page 222. Two titles in one octavo volume (7 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches; 199 x 117 mm). 222, [2, blank] pp. With.....
Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang, 1691. A Founding Document of Democracy The First of John Locke’s Works to be Translated from His Native English [LOCKE, John]. Du gouvernement civil, ou l'on traitte de l'origine, des fondemens, de la nature, du pouvoir et des fins des societe politiques. Traduit de l'Anglois. Amsterdam.....