London: Printed for John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill et al, 1822. Cruikshank, George. First edition, with half-title. Cruikshank Plates, Riviere Binding. First issued in 21 parts, this is the first edition in book form. The Cruikshank plates are wonderful scenes of high and low life in Paris, obviously influenced by the..... Read More about Life in Paris; comprising the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian...

N.P. [Geneva? Henri Estienne], 1575. First Latin edition of the Discours merveilleux de la vie, actions, et déportemens de Catherine de Médicis (1575). First Latin edition of this satire (published the same year as the French original), also attributed to Théodore de Bèze or Jean de Serres. "On attribue cet..... Read More about Catharinae Mediceae reginae matris, vitae, actorum, & consiliorum, quibus universum regni...

Boston: Published by William Wells, No. 6, Court-Street, [1808]. First edition. Read More about Exposition of the Prctices and Machinations which led to the Usurpation of the Crown of Spain,...

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910-1911. Read More about Romance of Imperial Rome; Romance Of Roman Villas; Romance of Italian Villas; Romance of the...

Dijon: Chez de Fay; Paris: Chez Briasson, 1744. Séconde edition. On Bourgogne laws. Read More about Traités des Prescriptions, de l'aliénation des biens d'église, et des dixmes, suivant les...

London: Baylis, Greville-Street, Se vend chez l'auteur, N° 29 Great Pulteney-street, Golden Square, 1798. First edition of the most important contemporary work on the captivity of Louis XVI. Clery was the faithful valet de chambre of Louis XVI during his imprisonment in the Tour du Temple, and thus an intimate..... Read More about Journal de ce qui s’est passé à la Tour du Temple pendant la captivité de Louis XVI, roi de...

London: Baylis, 1798. First English translation. Cléry was the faithful valet de chambre of Louis XVI during his imprisonment in the Tour du Temple, and thus an intimate witness to the days leading up to 21 January 1793, when Louis XVI was guillotined on the place Royale. Read More about A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France... by...

A Londres [but Paris]; Rome: Second work: De l'Imprimerie du Sacre College de la Propagande, 1771; 1769. Delisle de Sales curious work on carriages. Maubert de Gouvest's work was first published under the title “Lettres Iroquoises” in 1752. Read More about Lettre de Brutus, sur les Chars Anciens et Modernes [bound with] Jean Henri Maubert de Gouvest's...

London: Cobbett and Morgan, Pall-Mall, January, 1802. Second Edition. Addington (1757-1844), later the firest Viscount Sidmouth, had recently become PM, and Cobbett warned him of the disastrous effects of a Peace with France, on 'our colonies, our commerce...our manufactures,... and ...our Constitution.' " Pearl. Read More about Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Hawkesbury and to the Right Honourable Henry Addington, on...

Paris: Ve. A. Morel, 1875. First edition. Beautiful Chromolithographs of Church Ornamentation. Very fine plates by Lemercier of Paris. Read More about Histoire Archéologique, Descriptive et Graphique

London: Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield for I. Norton, 1601. Second edition in English. Second edition in English of a primary source for 15th century European history. Commines has been called "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" (Oxford Companion to English Literature), principally for his shrewd..... Read More about The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton. [Translation by Thomas Danett, with...

London: Thomas Constable, 1855. First of this translation., "Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, Vol. V" Published the year after the first edition, the work begins with a historical overview before describing the authors travels on the island. Oddly enough, three translations of Gregorovius' work on Corsica (1853) were published in..... Read More about Wanderings in Corsica: Its History and its Heroes