Includes Modern Reprints and Translations.
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." —Rene Descartes
New York: George Braziller, 1970. Hardcover in an Illustrated Slipcover. The Book of Hours of Engelbert of Nassau, housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford as MSS. Douce 219–220, is a splendid example of a book of hours following the Dominican Rite. Crafted in Ghent during the late 1470s or.....
![Item #16499 Facéties du Comte De Caylus [Folk Tales / Pranks]. Anne Claude de Caylus](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16499.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673977289)
Paris: A. Quantin, 1879. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Comte De Caylus was a French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters. Caylus had quite another side to his character. He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life and left a number of more or.....
Germany: Halle, Joham, Gebauer, 1756. Background Information:The map shows the conflicts in Mauretania and the province of Africa Proconsularis during the early first century AD. Gaetulien.The Romanised name of an ancient Berber tribe inhabiting Getulia, covering the large desert region south of the Atlas Mountains, bordering the Sahara. Mauretania (also.....
![Item #17178 The Life of Samuel Johnson [Three-volumes Complete]. James Boswell, 1740 - 1795](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17178.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691871308)
Boston: W. Andrews and L. Blake, Greenough and Stebbins, printers, 1807. First American Edition, from the Fifth London Edition. Full Leather Hardcovers. A complete set of Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson originally published in 1791.James Boswell was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer born in Edinburgh. He is best.....
London: W. Mears, 1718. Full leather in a slipcase. Full Title: New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical; explaining the motion of the sapp and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest-Trees, Flower-Gardens or Parterres; with a New Invention.....
London: A. Millar, 1752. Hardcover. Background Information:"An essay on the universe" was first published in "Poems on various subjects," 1739 and "Sunday thoughts" was first published in 1749. Moses Browne, born in Severn Stoke, Worcester, published his early poetry under the patronage of Viscount Molesworth; after the death of his.....
![Item #013845 [Stonehenge] A Tour through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland Made...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/013845.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647341509)
London: Printed at the Minerva Press, Leadenhall-Street, for R. Edwards, 1793. 1st Edition. Near Fine. Beginning in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the tour continues through Wiltshire, Cornwall and all surrounding counties, ending in Middlesex.Edward Daniel Clark an English clergyman, naturalist, mineralogist, and traveller in 1790 after his traditional schooling began tutorships common.....
London: John Walthoe et.al. 1740. The plate is from a collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. To which is prefixed, an introductory discourse (supposed to be written by the celebrated Mr. Locke) intitled, The whole history of navigation.....
London, Printed for W. Bower and F. Rivington et. al.:, 1771. 11th Edition. Full Calf Hardcovers. Samuel Clarke was an English philosopher and Anglican clergyman. He is considered the major British figure in philosophy between John Locke and George Berkeley.Clarke's altered, Nontrinitarian revision of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.....
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1950. No. 204 of a Limited Edition of 370 copies. Cloth Hardcover. Comenius, a visionary in education, was a Moravian Protestant bishop, a refugee, and an early advocate of universal education, earning him the title "Father of Modern Education."His book, "The Labyrinth of the World and.....
New York: Pantheon Books, 1948. Illustrations by Gustave Dore. The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world.....
London: Nicholas Tindal, c1745. This Map is From: "The Continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England: From the Revolution to the Present Times" by Nicholas Tindal (a translation of Rapin-Thoyras's "Histoire d'Angleterre"), an atlas presenting a history of the military engagements and campaigns of the War of the Spanish Succession.....
New York: George Braziller, 1971. Hardcover in an Illustrated Slipcover. The Hours of Étienne Chevalier, an illuminated book of hours, was commissioned by Étienne Chevalier, treasurer to King Charles VII of France, and crafted by the talented miniature painter and illuminator, Jean Fouquet.Today, only 48 leaves of this remarkable manuscript.....
USA: IndyPublish.com, 2001. Hardcover. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death.....
![Item #17048 The Beggar’s Opera with Musical Score By Johann Christian Pepusch [bound with] The...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17048.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687970080)
London: John Watts & T. Read, 1749 & 1729. Background Information:The Beggar's Opera, written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch, is a notable ballad opera in three acts. This play holds great significance in the realm of Augustan drama and stands as the sole.....
London: Nichols and Sons, 1884, Limited Edition. Full Leather Hardcover. According to tradition, Katherine of Alexandria was a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early fourth century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar.....
New York: Alfred A Knoff, 1973. Deluxe Edition. A Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Slipcase. The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's.....
![Item #013689 Faust - Tragédie. [Faust - Tragedy]. Goethe, Albert Stapfer, a, P. Stapfer, J Wolfgang](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/013689.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647344620)
Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1885. Hardcover. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature a tragic play in two parts, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the.....
![Item #17513 She Stoops to Conquer: A Comedy [Ariel Booklet]. Oliver Goldsmith](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17513.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701362076)
New York: G. P. Putman's Sons, c1920. Flexible Leather Wraps. She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays.....
Ohio: Kent State Univ Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. The Danse Macabre of Women is a 15th-century French poem found in a lavishly illuminated late medieval manuscript. The only Dance of Death devoted entirely to women, it was written by an anonymous author and subsequently.....
Boston: Bazin & Ellsworth, 1821. Leather. Background Information:William Hone was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship in 1817 marked a turning point in the fight for British press freedom.Hone has been described as one of the fathers of modern media. According to Associate.....
![Item #013848 [17th Century Travel, England] Picturesque Views on the Upper or Warwickshire Avon,...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/013848.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701364097)
London: R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Hardcover. An important travalogue describing the locations and views along the River Avon from its source at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Twekesbury.Also notable for some racy accounts which includes a brothel and a......
Paris: Chez Desaing & Saillant and Durand, 1759. Engraved by Laurent Cars. The work was edited by C. P. de Monthenault d'Egly and published in Paris by Chez Desaing & Saillant and Durand between 1755 and 1759. The engravings were by Cochin, Tardieu, Prevost, Chedel, Lempereur and others after the.....
John Ogilby (1600 - 1676). Background Information:John Ogilby (1600 - 1676) was the first cartographer to make use of strip-maps for roads. A Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer. Best known for publishing the first British road atlas, he was also a successful translator, noted for publishing his work in handsome.....
Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publisher, 1988. Later Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Flavius Josephus was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Best known for writing The Jewish War, he was born in Jerusalem—then part of the Roman province of Judea—to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed.....