London, Thomas Horne, 1700 ('Fourth Edition, carefully Corrected and Enlarg'd')/ 1638. 'One of the earliest systematic treatises on its subject in English' ('Dictionary of National Biography') which 'represents the economic views of England of the seventeenth century more accurately than any other work of that age' (Carl Menger). More

'In the Savoy' [London], printed for D. Browne, J. Walthoe (and numerous others), 1717 (third edition, first issue)/ 1670. Blount's Law Dictionary was first published in 1670 under the title 'Nomo-Lexicon'. '[This] work quickly superseded its predecessors. In addition to providing the explanation of common law terms, Blount was the..... More

London, Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborne, and T. Longman, 1728 ('Second Edition, very much Corrected')/ 1720 (first edition in English)/ 1707 (first edition, in Latin). The eight plates, normally found with a small folding section, are bound into this copy in an unfolded state by..... More

London, printed for D. Midwinter, R. Ware (and numerous others), 1739. More

London, J. and P. Knapton, and P. Vailant, 1744 [first edition in English]. The nine-page introduction by the unidentified Bazin quotes his sources: 'To what M. de Réaumur has said, in his Memoir concerning Bees, I have added every thing which had relation to that subject, which is found in..... More

London, R. Manby and H.S. Cox, 1749 and 1751. The article on Conyers Middleton (1683-1750) by Leslie Stephen in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' is painstakingly (and almost painfully) informative. The English clergyman was no stranger to controversy: 'Serious imputations ... have been made upon his literary honesty [he was..... More

London, Printed and Sold by Luke Hinde, 1751 (second edition)/ 1749. Offered with a copy in similar condition of the first edition of a companion volume, 'The Works of that Ancient, Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Thomas Chalkley ... containing his Epistles and Other Writings' (London, Luke Hinde, 1751). London-born..... More

London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1755 [third edition]/ 1754. William Hay (1695-1755), author and MP, wrote this 'autobiographical polemic addressing contemporary demonizing attitudes towards disfigurement [which] has been under-recognized as a key intervention in the history of disability' (Shuttleton: Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660-1820). Bound together with [ASGILL, J.]..... More

London, Printed for J. Scott, 1757. More

London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1759 [second edition]/ [1758]. 'In the present War between England and France, the Subjects of Holland have no Right to cover the Property of the Enemy of England' - an early work on international law. Sir James Marriott, 'lawyer and politician (1730?-1803) ... was created..... More

London, Printed for G. Kearsly, 1761. A history of the development of taxation in England, including a commentary upon the effects of every piece of legislation affecting taxes. With a contemporary ownership label [Mertoun]. More

London, The Author, 1766 ['second edition, corrected and enlarged'; the first two tracts were first published in 1758 and 1759 respectively]. Important early works on the corn trade, which earned the praise of Adam Smith in his 'Wealth of Nations'. More

London, Becket & De Hondt, 1771 [first issue, with the dedication leaf to Banks and Solander, quickly suppressed]. The first published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific, which appeared some two years before the official account. This copy carries the stamp of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals, and..... More

London, G. Robinson [and others], 1776. Goldsmith 11428. More

Bath, J. Johnson, 1778 [first edition]. More

London, W. and A. Strahan, 1784 [first edition]. The large folio atlas is not present with this set of the official account of Cook's third and final voyage. The first two volumes were written by James Cook, the third volume by James King. With the armorial bookplate of John Dixon..... More

London, John Stockdale, 1788 ('a new edition, embellished with an elegant Frontispiece and a Vignette')/ 1788. With the armorial bookplate of Arthur Wood. More

London, John Stockdale, 1789 (first edition). First edition, later issue, with the name of the artist, Henry Webber, removed from the title page vignette, and the 'Wulpine Opossum' plate now showing 'Vulpine' (but with the early state of the 'Kangooroo' plate). Ferguson 47; Wantrup 5 (and pages 59-64). More

London, John Stockdale, 1790 (second edition)/ 1789. The superior second edition, with the substantially expanded appendix, which includes 'The History of New Holland ... and a Discourse on Banishment' and its accompanying hand-coloured map. Ferguson 90; Wantrup 5 (and pages 59-64). More

London, Brooke, 1792. More

London, John Stockdale, 1793. The journal of John Hunter, second Governor of New South Wales, and an important source for the early European settlement of Australia. Plates include the first published illustration of the new settlement ('View of the Settlement on Sydney Cove', after a sketch by the author), and..... More

London, John Stockdale, 1794 (new edition)/ 1782. The dedication referred to in the title runs to 116 pages. More

London, J. Johnson, J. Butterworth and B.C. Collins, 1795 ['third edition, with considerable additions']. With the ownership stamp of Howard Zelling, sometime Supreme Court Judge of South Australia (plus an earlier name-stamp on the front pastedown and the title page, and a much earlier signature on the title page). More

Paris, Chez Janet [et] Hubert, [1796]/ 1651-1657. Drawing on the picaresque tradition of Rabelais and Cervantes, this work is among the first French novels. Scarron charts the adventures of a troupe of wandering actors, mixing incisive social commentary with bawdy humour. More