Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1650. Full Calf. Early issue of the first Latin edition of Browne's first and most celebrated work, a spiritual testament and meditative essay originally not intended for publication. 12mo (128 x 73mm): 235,[5]pp, with engraved title page after a design by William Marshall of..... more

London: Printed by R. Norton for Richard Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty [from 1649], M DC LXXXI. [1681]. Morocco. Later seventeenth-century edition of this purported spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Crown 8vo (181 x 101mm): [16],256pp, with frontispiece engraved by William Marshall (Madan 47)..... more

London: printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, dwelling in Brides Churchyard, neer Fleetstreet, 1651. First Edition. First Issue, with engraved title page signed "Ro: Vaughan sculp:" and imprint "Sould by Iohn Stafford in Brides Churchyard 1651." Small 4to: [10],440,[20],441-596pp, with additional engraved title page and forty-three engraved portraits in..... more

London: printed by E[llen]. C[otes]. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-lane, and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1655. First Edition. Full Calf. First Edition of this rare history of the reign of Charles I to May..... more

London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, MDCCXLIX [1749]. Early Edition. Full Calf. First Newton Edition, complete in two volumes, the first definitive edition of Milton's magnum opus (see below), an epic running nearly 11,000 lines. Medium 4to (295 x 230mm): [128],lxi,[5],16,[12],459,[1]; 444,[132]pp (including..... more

Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1642. First Edition. Half-Calf. First Edition one of the most curious and fascinating books of the seventeenth century, Potter’s treatise on the Number of the Beast. 4to: [16],214,[2]pp, with copper-engraved title page by W. Marshall, showing numerical manifestations of ‘666’ and their supposed connections to..... more

London: printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1791. Second Edition. Vellum. First Edition illustrated by William Blake (and first to carry Wollstonecraft's name on title page) of this didactic collection of stories for children. 12mo: viii,[4],177,[3,advertisements]pp, with six full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece) designed and engraved by..... more