Published: 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...
Learn MorePublished: 1694 Second Edition. John Locke first published “Two Treatises of Government” anonymously in 1689 as a defense of the Glorious Revolution. The first treatise discusses patriarchalism...
Learn MorePublished: 1651 First Edition, with additional engraved title page and folding table. “Leviathan” was written during the English Civil War (1642-1651) by Thomas Hobbes, where he asserts that civil war and...
Learn MorePublished: 1698 First Edition. Algernon Sidney’s “Discourses Concerning Government” was published from his original manuscript in 1698. Written between 1680 and 1683, it was not published until...
Learn MorePublished: 1748 First Edition. David Hume’s “Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding” was first published in 1748. In 1758, the work became known as “An Enquiry Concerning...
Learn MorePublished: 1852 First Edition. One of the landmarks of American literature. An American abolitionist and author, Harriet Beecher Stowe was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social...
Learn MorePublished: 1844 First Edition, containing the arguments and three letters of the Secretary of the Board of Education of the State of Massachusetts in reply to charges against the board by editor of ‘The...
Learn MorePublished: 1475 “One of only three known copies in the world. One in the British Museum in London and the other in the Newbury in Chicago. This is the most perfect of the three.” Writing began in...
Learn MorePublished: 1549 Second Edition English. This volume is the hugely popular Renaissance text of The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus published in 1549. It was translated by Sir Thomas Chaloner and has a...
Learn MorePublished: 1788 First Edition, one of five known copies. This is the first official printing of the Constitution after Connecticut ratified the Constitution on January 9, 1788 and before the Constitution...
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