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Tetradymus by John Toland
Featured Work First Edition. "Tetradymus" was written by Irish rationalist philosopher John Toland and published in 1720 in London. It contains four parts of unrelated essays: "Hodegus; or the Pillar of Cloud and Fire, that Guided Israelites in the Wilderness, not...
Politiques, or Discourses of Government by Aristotle
Featured Work First English Edition. Entitled, "Aristotles Politiques, Or Discovrses of Government," this edition of Aristotle's "Politiques" was published in 1598 in London and translated from the 1568 French edition. "Politiques" was written by the ancient Greek...
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Featured Work This volume contains "Nicolai Machiavelli Princeps" ("The Prince") by Niccolo Machiavelli and "Vindicae contra tyrannos: sive, de principis in populum, populiq in principem, legitima potestate,"often attributed to Hubert Languet or Philippe de...
The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise by Dante Alighieri
Featured Work 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." It was translated by Reverend H. F. Cary. There is no date given for this book on the...
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Featured Work First Edition. Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and first published in 1841, "Essays," also known as "Essays: First Series," is a collection of twelve essays that includes: "History," "Self-Reliance," "Compensation," "Spiritual Laws," "Love," "Friendship,"...
The Obedience of a Christen Man, and How Christen Rulers Ought to Gouerne by William Tyndale
Featured Work With woodcut title-border and decorative initials. "The Obedience of a Christian Man, and how Christen rulers ought to gouerne, wherein also (yf thow marke dylygently) thou shalt fynde eyes to perceave the crafty conueyaunce of all jugglers" was written...
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Featured Work Gideon Edition. This edition of "The Federalist" was published by Jacob Gideon with the assistance of James Madison, who provided his personal copies of the essays and corrections. This new edition included a new listing of authored essays which varied...
Essays on Philosophical Subjects by Adam Smith
Featured Work First Edition. "Essays on Philosophical Subjects" was published posthumously in 1795 after Adam Smith's death in 1790, from previously unpublished material prepared by Smith's literary executors: Joseph Black, a physicist and chemist, and James Hutton, a...
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Featured Work First American Edition, with fifty illustrations. "The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: with the Apocrypha. Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by the Special Command...
On the Virtues of Women and the Parallel Lives by Plutarch
Featured Work In Latin, with decorative initials. "Plutarchus de Claris Mulieribus. Plutarchi Paralelia ("On the Virtues of Women" [with] "Parallel Lives") was written by Greek biographer and essayist Plutarch. This volume was translated by Alamanus Rinutinus and...
Letters by Mary Wollstonecraft
Featured Work First Edition. Written by British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, "Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark" is a personal travel narrative and an autobiographical memoir, published in 1796. The volume consists of...
The Republic by Plato
Featured Work First Glasgow Edition, with scarce publisher's advertisement leaf at end. "The Republic of Plato" was published in 1763. It was translated from Greek by H. Spens and includes the translator's preliminary discourse concerning the ideas of the ancient...