London: Printed by H. Clark, for A. and J. Churchill and Edw. Castle, 1697 [both titles]. First editions. Wing L-2749 & L-2753; Yolton 248, second issue, state 2 & Yolton 249; NCBEL II, 1837. ¶ Locke’s first published responses to criticism of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding; these two were.....

Richmond: Printed by Samuel Pleasants, 1798. First edition. Stoddard & Whitesell 610; Hill, American Plays, 194; Evans 34159; Sabin 51316. The first book by William Munford (1775-1825), a collection of verse, prose and one play. Munford was a native of Virginia and the son of Revolutionary War soldier and dramatist.....

[Paris: Contemporary Annals Publishing House], 1932. First edition, in Russian. Juliar, Nabokov, A Descriptive Bibliography, A13.1. Nabokov's novel Glory, which was not published in English until 1971. From the inventory of Burton Weiss, Bookseller.

London: Printed for G. Robinson and J. Bew, 1775-77. First edition. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1775: 30; NCBEL II, 677. The first novel and second book by Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749-1814), the story of the adventures of the clergyman Benignus, who searches for answers about goodness and benevolence. Pratt's plot.....

[N.p., n.d., circa 1750]. A manuscript copy of a Spanish translation of the famous French novel by César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639-1692). First published in French in 1672, Don Carlos – a novella about the forbidden passion between Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain, and his father's.....

(London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1799). ESTC N60288 (Lincoln's Inn Library and Wellcome Institute). An act passed by Parliament in the summer of 1799, delineated in 39 paragraphs, that regulated the slave trade beginning in August, 1800 - an act.....

Paris: Newly Printed at Paris and to be sold in London by John Starkey, 1670. First edition, second issue with the variant imprint on the title of volume 1. Wing describes this as an edition; Pine-Coffin as a variant. The collations of the two issues are identical. Pine-Coffin, Bibliography of.....

London: Printed for C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. First edition. Cf. Bengeso 1558; Sabin 100751 (noting Voltaire's letters on William Penn and the Pennsylvania Quakers). The first appearance of an early and important prose work by Voltaire, a series of epistolary observations comparing British and French society, culture, science.....