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 '[This] work quickly superseded its predecessors.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, printed by Henry Lintot for John and Paul Knapton and John Nourse, 1745. More

Dublin, Printed for John Smith, 1749 [first Irish edition]/ 1749. Fielding's comic masterpiece was 'so eagerly received by its first readers that four [London] editions totaling 10,000 copies were called for in less than a year' (Battestin: 'A Henry Fielding Companion'). This unauthorised first Irish edition was published in the..... More

London, David Mallet, 1754 (first collected octavo edition). Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of A.R. Downer, Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer (1910-1981), politician and diplomat. He was the Minister for Immigration under Menzies from 1958, and the Australian High Commissioner in London from 1963 to 1972. Henry St John..... More

London, printed by Thomas Baskett ... for J. Nourse, 1757. More

London, Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1757 [first edition]. The first edition of this popular satire against the 'vain, luxurious and selfish effeminacy of England's higher ranks, in the wake of the loss of Minorca to the French at the opening of the Seven Years' War' (ODNB). This..... 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