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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...
De Consolatio Philosophiae by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Manuscript: 1400-1425 Illuminated and Rubricated Manuscript on Paper in Latin. This manuscript contains “De Consolatio Philosophiae” with an anonymous commentary on Boethius. It was transcribed in an early humanist hand around 1400-1425 in Northern Italy....
I quindici libri degli elementi di euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana (Elements) by Euclid
Published: 1545 Second Edition in Italian. The famous mathematical treatise, “I quindici libri degli elementi di euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana,” also known as “Elements” is attributed to Euclid. This volume was published in 1545 and...
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Published: 1776 First Edition. “The Wealth of Nations” is known as one of the world's first and greatest classics on modern economics. Its foundation was constructed from Smith’s “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” and it was a culmination of seventeen years...
De homine Ioannis Pici Mirandulae, ubi sublimiora et sacrae et humanae philosophiae mysteria explicantur by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Title: De homine Ioannis Pici Mirandulae, ubi sublimiora et sacrae et humanae philosophiae mysteria explicantur. Eiusdem de Christo & hoc malo seculo. Item loci Christianam uitam complectentes. Praeterea annotationes in psalmum XV. (Oration on the...
