History & Arts

This influential text is one of the definitive works of the Gothic Revival, codifying and explaining the thinking behind the movement. Ruskin’s sev...

Hoyle’s games improved; being practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansq...

Dedicated to Mitchell Davis Follansbee, ‘a gentleman of good taste (non alcoholic)’ of Chicago, this book includes an early - possibly the earliest...

Mill was a passionate advocate of women’s rights in Parliament, as president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and in print. He attribut...

Herodotus: [Greek title...] Historiarum Libri IX [...] industria Jacobi Gronovii, cuius accedunt notae […] Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], apud Samuele...

Herodotus and Thucydides: [Greek title] Libri Novum… Georgii Gemisti, qui et Pletho de iis quae post pugnam ad Mantineam gesta sunt libri II. […] B...

[Both title-pages in Greek and Latin] Pausaniæ Accurata Graeciae descriptio, qua lector ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur… [bound with] Arist...

[Title in Greek and Latin] Stephani Byzantini Gentilia per epitomen, antehac… De urbibus inscripta [with] Notae et castigationes postumae in Stepha...

Plot, Robert: The natural history of Oxford-shire, being an essay toward the natural history of England. By R.P. LL.D. Oxford: Printed at the Theat...

Thucydides: [Greek title] De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Iidem Latine, ex interpretatione Lavrentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita […] ...

An Account of the Legacies, Gifts, Rents, Fees &c. appertaining to the Church and Poor of the Parish of St, Alphege Greenwich in the County of ...

The history and topography of the parish of Saint Mary, Islington, in the county of Middlesex. London: printed for the author, by Gilbert & Riv...

A topographical and historical account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-bone: comprising a copious description of the public buildings, antiquities, sc...

The naval history of Great Britain; with the lives of the most illustrious admirals and commanders, from the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Interspersed...

Clarke, Rev. James Stanier & M’Arthur, John: The Life & Services of Horatio Viscount Nelson [...] from His Lordship's Manuscripts. London: ...

Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire […] London, printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell […], 1776-1788 “Gibbon is ...

Jennings, Rev. David: An Introduction to the Knowledge of Medals […] The Second Edition. Birmingham: Printed by Sarah Baskerville; and sold by Jose...

Probably the first collected edition in English of Gandhi’s speeches and writings. You know a lesser bookseller would omit the qualification, but n...

James Jenkins: The Martial Achievements Of Great Britain And Her Allies; From 1799 To 1815. London, printed for James Jenkins [...] by L. Harrison ...

Phillimore, Colonel Reginald Henry: Historical Records of the Survey of India. Volumes 1 to 4... alas not including the suppressed fifth volume Col...