Featured WorkRubricated Manuscript on Paper in Latin. This volume is a translation of Leonardo Bruni transcribed by an unrecorded scribe, Guillaume-Henri, citizen of Embrun at Carpentras in France. The work is presumed to be dedicated to Aristotle's father or his...
Featured Work NO EQUALLY COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE SINCE THE WEALTH OF NATIONS First edition of Mill's important and influential work on political economy. ``[T]here had been no equally comprehensive treatise, especially none that paid so much attention to practical...
Featured Work First Edition. Catechism of Political Economy by Jean-Baptiste Say, a French statesman and economist; was born in Paris on the 6th of June 1826. He displayed talent for interesting popular audiences in economic questions. His sympathies, like those of...
Featured Work First American Edition. The classic economic study which was to change the face of twentieth century politics and geography for nearly 75 years. One must bear in mind, that though the “Cold War” may be over, the concept and practice of Marxism is still...
Featured Work First published in 1855, 'My Bondage and My Freedom' is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first, 'Narrative of the Life of...
Featured Work Sixth Edition, printed in the same year as the first edition. This is one of the earliest non-Philadelphia printings. Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" anonymously on January 10, 1776. In "Common Sense," Paine made a persuasive case to the Colonists...
Featured Work Contains Magna Charta; Statues of the Realm; Register of Writs. First Issued in 1215 as a result of an angry encounter, on the plains of Runnymeade, between an assembly of Barons and King John over the right of the King to obtain funds from a few...
Featured Work One of three known copies. "The only one in private hands. This is the third Dunlap printing. John Dunlap, as one of the leading printers in Philadelphia, produced numerous pieces both for the Continental Congress and the state of Pennsylvania. Only...
Featured Work Second Edition of the complete essays of Bacon, his most popular and important literary work. First published in 1625, it contains 58 essays on a variety of subjects. The work "provides dispassionate observation of human life and powerfully expressed...
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