London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1659. First edition. ESTC R210048; Wing C3671; Mish, English Prose Fiction, 1600-1700, page 35; NCBEL I, 2058. A rare work of prose fiction by prolific writer, physician and philosopher William Charleton (1619-1707), a short philosophical tale based on the story of a woman from the.....
London: Printed for Charles Mearne and Sold by Henry Bonwick, 1684. First edition, second issue, with a cancel title-page; the first issue was dated 1683. ESTC R9918; Wing B5152; Keynes, Bibliography of Browne, 128; NCBEL I, 2230. 13 tracts by Thomas Browne (1605-1682), posthumously compiled and edited by Thomas Tenison.....
London: Printed by William Jaggard, 1606. Second edition in English of Justinus's Historiæ Philippicæ; the first edition of this translation. ESTC S117759; STC 24293. Roman historian Marcus Junianus Justinus’ epitome of the expansive history and origins of the world from the beginning of time to the era of the Caesars.....
London: Printed by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610. First edition. Keynes, John Donne, 1; ESTC S109984; STC 7048; Pforzheimer 298. John Donne's first book, a polemical treatise on the supremacy of the King, which some Donne scholars have maintained was written specifically at the behest of King James. Donne.....
Printed MDC.XXVI, First edition. ESTC S113538; STC 18903. In 1609 courtier and poet Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) traveled through the Low Countries and France and wrote this essay about the equilibrium of power between France, Spain and England that would guarantee their mutual preservation. This would become known as the "balance.....