Published: [1814] This work is Dante Alighieri’s poem entitled “The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri,” or more commonly known as “The Divine Comedy.”...
Learn More[Two Works in One Volume] Nicolai Machiavelli Princeps. Ex Sylvestri Telii fulginatis Traductione diligenter emendata.Adiecta sunt eiusdem argumenti aliorum quorundam contra Machiavellum scripta, de potestate...
Learn MorePublished: 1598 First English Edition. Entitled, “Aristotles Politiques, Or Discovrses of Government,” this edition of Aristotle’s “Politiques” was published in 1598 in London...
Learn MoreTitle: Tetradymus. Containing I. Hodegus; or the Pillar of Cloud and Fire, that guided Israelites in the Wilderness, not Miraculous: but, as faithfully related in Exodus, a thing equally practis’d by...
Learn MorePublished: 1787-1788 Rare, First Edition in Three Volumes. John Adams’ “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” first volume appeared in London, New...
Learn MorePublished: 1907 “Historical Essays and Studies” is a collection of essays written by John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, published in 1907, five years after his death. Edited by John Neville...
Learn MorePublished: 1767 Early Edition. “Authentic Account of the Proceedings of the Congress Held a New-York, In MDCCLXV, on the Subject of the American Stamp Act” was first published in 1767, this volume...
Learn MorePublished: 1777 Third Edition. Printed in the same year as the first edition, “Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq; to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America” was written by...
Learn MorePublished: 1669 Second Edition, with illustrations, sculpture, and annotations. This volume is an illustrated translation of Homer’s “Odyssey,” translated in to English by John Ogilby,...
Learn MoreDate: 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...
Learn MorePublished: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...
Learn MoreTitle: 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...
Learn MorePublished: 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...
Learn MoreTitle: 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...
Learn MorePublished: 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...
Learn MorePublished: 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...
Learn MoreManuscript: 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...
Learn MorePublished: 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...
Learn MorePublished: 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...
Learn MoreManuscript: 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...
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