Padova [Padua]: Appresso Giusseppe Comino, [1766]. Early Reprint. Full Calf. An important reprint of Aldine's first edition of 1528, discarding the extensive alterations to the text that corrupted editions of this classic treatise on etiquette for more than a century. 4to (23 x 16 cm) xxiv, 352pp, with portrait frontispiece..... 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

Amsterdam: chez Pierre Humbert, 1724. First Edition. Full French calf. First Illustrated Edition, complete in two volumes bound in one, of this history of the Council of Pisa. 4to: liii,366; 327,[31]pp, with 16 full-page copper-engraved plates (portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after A. Pesne, one of the Prussian..... more

London: Printed for Henry Washbourne, New Bridge Street, MDCCCL [1850]. Morocco. Handsomely bound edition of Milton's great epic poem, with John Martin's evocative, atmospheric mezzotints, "without doubt one of the most significant series of British book illustrations ever to have been produced" (Campbell) and "one of the great publishing enterprises..... 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