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Hebrew Torah
Date: 16th Century Sixteenth Century Torah Scroll in Hebrew. This scroll is transcribed on parchment and is approximately one hundred and sixty feet in length. The Torah, meaning "instruction" or "teaching" in Hebrew, is the central document of Judaism and consists of...
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
Published:1729 First Edition in English in two volumes. This edition was translated by Andrew Motte and includes "The Laws of the Moon's Motion, According to Gravity" by John Machin. It was printed two years after Newton's death and includes forty-nine engraved...
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Title: The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. Published: 1788 First Edition, with volumes I and II bound together. This influential work on politics and...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft
Published: 1792 First Edition. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" is one of the earliest and most famous works on feminism. Written in approximately six weeks by Mary Wollstonecraft after she read Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's 1791 report to the French...
The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully, Held in Bondage.
Title: The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully, Held in Bondage. Begun in the Year 1774, and Enlarged on the Twenty-Third of April, 1787. To which are Added, the Acts of the...
Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia: Containing an Excellent, Learned, Wittie, and Pleasant Discourse of the Best State of a Publike Weale, as it is Found in the Government of the New Ile Called Utopia by Thomas More
Published: 1624 Fourth Corrected Edition in English. This edition of Thomas More's "Utopia" is entitled "Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia: Containing an Excellent, Learned, Wittie, and Pleasant Discourse of the Best State of a Publike Weale, as it is Found in the Government...
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Published: 1859 First Edition. “On Liberty” is John Stuart Mill’s classic defense of freedom where Mill attempts to apply his system of Utilitarianism to society and the state and tries to establish the principle values of relationship between authority and liberty....
Historia Scholastica by Peter Comestor
Manuscript: ca. 1450 Illustrated Manuscript on paper in Latin. Peter Comestor, also known as Peter the Devourer for his insatiable appetite for knowledge, was a twelfth-century French theologian and chancellor at the University of Paris. Completed around 1173, the...
Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui De revolutionibus orbium coelestium inscribuntur by Nicolai Copernicus
Published: 1617 Third Edition in Latin with diagrams and tables. “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” (“On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”), entitled here, “Astronomia Instaurata, Liberis sex comprehensa, qui de Revolutionibus orbium cælestium inscribuntur.”...
The Alcoran of Mahomet (Quran)
Published: 1649 First English Edition. The Quran is the sacred religious text of Islam, entitled here, “The Alcoran of Mahomet.” It was published in 1649 and the translation is attributed to Scottish clergyman Alexander Ross; an additional text included in...
