Featured Work English philosopher and proponent of deism. His writings gather together the results of previous English Freethinkers. The imperturbable courtesy of his style is in striking contrast to the violence of his opponents; and, in spite of his unorthodoxy, he...
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The Federalist
Featured Work First Edition. Only Volume II Present. The eighty-five essays, under the pseudonym "Publius", were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. They were designed as political propaganda, not as a treatise of political philosophy. In spite...
Novanglus by John Adams
Featured Work This collection of political essays, by John Adams, was written in 1774 and 1775 regarding the principal points of controversy between Great Britain and her colonies. Adams used this breadth of knowledge about British history and law to dissect that...
Opera by Aristotle
Featured Work First Edition, in Roman type, with woodcut capitals and 351 woodcut diagrams in the text with large woodcut device of Benedictus Fontana on final leaf. Translated by Joannes Argyropylus, Leonardo Bruni, Georgio Valla and others. This volume "contains...
The Extraordinary Black Book by John Wade
Featured Work "The Bible of the Reformers” was the Black Book, a massive compendium of all the abuses, electoral, ecclesiastical, legal, which they sought to abolish. The edition cited here was the most influential, coming as it did on the eve of the Reform Bill...
Complete Proceedings of the First Continental Congress by Congress
Featured Work First Edition. Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia, on the Fifth of September 1774. Containing, The Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an Address to...
Enoch 1
Featured Work This newly discovered copy of the apocalyptic and pseud-epigraphic biblical book of the lost prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, is arguably the "most important Jewish writing that has survived the Greco-Roman period." Scholars believe that...
Von der Babylonischen der Kirchen by Martin Luther
Featured Work Third German Edition printed in the same year as the first edition. This is the second of Luther's three crucial reformatory writings of 1520, which the Reformer radically critiques the sacramental system of the church. "It is in the "Babylonian...
The Institution of Christian Religion by John Calvin
Featured Work "(Adapted from Jean Calvin, 1509-1564) French Protestant reformer. Calvin’s theological doctrines had tremendous influence, particularly in the Puritan religion of England, Scotland, and America. Calvin had an early background of humanism; as a student...