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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Featured Work First Edition. Algernon Sidney’s "Discourses Concerning Government" was published from his original manuscript in 1698. Written between 1680 and 1683, it was not published until 1698, after Sidney was executed in 1683 for his involvement in the Rye...
Featured Work First Edition, with additional engraved title page and folding table. “Leviathan” was written during the English Civil War (1642-1651) by Thomas Hobbes, where he asserts that civil war and anarchy can only be avoided by having a strong, undivided...
Featured Work Second Edition. John Locke first published "Two Treatises of Government" anonymously in 1689 as a defense of the Glorious Revolution. The first treatise discusses patriarchalism - the idea that the power of the monarchy is absolute - through an attack on...
Featured Work First Edition. James Harrington’s great Utopian political treatise, “The Common-Wealth of Oceana,” was published in 1656. “Oceana” was published in two first editions for Daniel Pakeman and Livewell Chapman (presented here) by John Streater with their...
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