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...
Learn MorePublished: 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...
Learn MorePublished: 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...
Learn MoreTitle: 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...
Learn MorePublished: 1522 In Latin, with illustrated title page and initials. This volume is Marsilius of Padua’s “Defensor Pacis,” printed in 1522, entitled, “Opus insigne cui titulum fecit autor defensorem pacis,...
Learn MorePublished: 1610 First Edition in English. This work is Augustine of Hippo’s classic book of Christian philosophy entitled “Citie of God,” translated by John Healey from the Latin version and edited by Ioannes...
Learn MorePublished: 1836 Second Edition of Part I, in two volumes with original foldout map. Published in two parts, the first published in 1835 and the second volume published in 1840. “Democracy in America” was a...
Learn MorePublished: 1500 Rare, Third Edition in German. This “Nuremberg Chronicle” by Hartmann Schedel was published by Hans Schönsperger in Augsburg in 1500. The “Chronicle” was first published in Latin in 1493 by...
Learn MoreFull Title: “Dialogo di Galileo Galilei linceo matematico supremo dello studio di padova, e Pisa. E filosofo, e matematico primario del serenissimo gran duca di Toscana. Dove ne i congressi di quattro...
Learn MorePublished: 1644 First Edition. “Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton For the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, To the Parlament of England” was written by English poet John Milton and published in...
Learn MorePublished: 1781 First German Edition. This is the highly influential work of Immanuel Kant’s “Critik der reinen Vernuft” (“Critique of Pure Reason”), published in 1781 by Johann Friedrich Hartknoch in Riga....
Learn MorePublished: 1799 First Edition. This work contains the House Committee Report and the speeches of John Nicholas, a Virginia Congressman, and Albert Gallatin, a representative from Pennsylvania, about the Alien...
Learn MorePublished: 1611 First Edition, “He” Version. The King James Bible, “He” Version published in 1611 by Robert Barker. The volume includes the Old and New Testaments as well as the genealogies of the Holy...
Learn MorePublished: 1763 First Edition in English. “The Republic of Plato in Ten Books” was translated by H. Spens and includes a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients by the translator....
Learn MoreManuscript Date: 1446 Manuscript in Latin, on paper. This manuscript of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s “De Officis” was prepared for Nicolai Renciade by an unknown scribe in 1446. Renciade was a student of Giovanni...
Learn MorePublished: 1640 First English Edition. “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli first appeared in 1513 in a correspondence version under the title, “De Principatibus.” It was first published five years after...
Learn MorePublished: 1738 Published in Dublin in 1738 under the title, “The Trial of John Peter Zenger,” this volume was originally published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1738 as “A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal...
Learn MorePublished: 1656 First Edition. James Harrington’s great Utopian political treatise, “The Common-Wealth of Oceana,” was published in 1656. “Oceana” was published in two first editions for Daniel Pakeman and...
Learn MorePublished: 1513 First Edition, except were cited. This volume is entitled “Liber trium virorum & trium spiritualium virginum” and includes six texts in one volume with a woodcut title page of...
Learn MorePublished: 1692 First Edition. Sir Roger L’Estrange’s version of the “Fables of Aesop” was printed in 1692. It is a collection of fables attributed to Aesop, who is believed to be a Greek slave and...
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