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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Featured Work First Edition. “On Liberty” is John Stuart Mill’s classic defense of freedom where Mill attempts to apply his system of Utilitarianism to society and the state and tries to establish the principle values of relationship between authority and liberty. In...
Utopia by Thomas More
Featured Work Fourth Corrected Edition in English. This edition of Thomas More's "Utopia" is entitled "Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia: Containing an Excellent, Learned, Wittie, and Pleasant Discourse of the Best State of a Publike Weale, as it is Found in the Government of...
The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully, Held in Bondage.
Featured Work First Edition. Written by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush and published in 1787. The society was founded on April 14, 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the Pennsylvania Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage and was the...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Featured Work First Edition. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" is one of the earliest and most famous works on feminism. Written in approximately six weeks by Mary Wollstonecraft after she read Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's 1791 report to the French...
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Featured Work First Edition, with volumes I and II bound together. This influential work on politics and government was published in 1788 in book form, entitled, "The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the...
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
Featured Work First Edition in English in two volumes. This edition was translated by Andrew Motte and includes "The Laws of the Moon's Motion, According to Gravity" by John Machin. It was printed two years after Newton's death and includes forty-nine engraved folding...
Torah Scroll
Featured Work Sixteenth Century Torah Scroll in Hebrew. This scroll is transcribed on parchment and is approximately one hundred and sixty feet in length. The Torah, meaning "instruction" or "teaching" in Hebrew, is the central document of Judaism and consists of the...
Odyssey by Homer
Featured Work Second Edition, with illustrations, sculpture, and annotations. This volume is an illustrated translation of Homer's "Odyssey," translated into English by John Ogilby, entitled, "Homer, His Odysses Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture and Illustrated with...
Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke by Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon
Featured Work Third Edition. Printed in the same year as the first edition, "Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq; to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America" was written by Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon, who was a leading supporter of...
Proceedings of the Congress on the Subject of the American Stamp Act
Featured Work Early Edition. "Authentic Account of the Proceedings of the Congress Held a New-York, In MDCCLXV, on the Subject of the American Stamp Act" was first published in 1767, this volume is an early edition published in the same year. This work is an account...
Historical Essays and Studies by John Dalberg Acton
Featured Work "Historical Essays and Studies" is a collection of essays written by John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, published in 1907, five years after his death. Edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, the essays cover a wide period, from Henry...
A Defence of the Constitutions by John Adams
Featured Work Rare, First Edition in Three Volumes. John Adams' "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America" first volume appeared in London, New York, and Philadelphia in 1787 and Boston in 1788. Adams meant for "A Defence" to be a...