Published: 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...
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...
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