The Federalist

Featured Work The Federalist 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...

Novanglus by John Adams

Featured Work Novanglus by John Adams 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...

Opera by Aristotle

Featured Work Opera by Aristotle 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...

The Extraordinary Black Book by John Wade

Featured Work The Extraordinary Black Book by John Wade “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,...