First collected edition, featuring Adam of Bremen's chronicle of peoples from the Old North and the earliest known mention of the Vikings discovery of North America, of three key works in the history of Hamburg, within a larger sammelband of six works total.
Stunning limited first edition portfolio of large plates hand-colored in pochoir, one of only 500 numbered copies, issued triumphantly at the end of World War I.
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First edition of the first published treatise to argue the mysterious construction of Stonehenge was not by the Romans but by the Danes, evocatively illustrated with woodcuts of the monument and featuring a poem celebrating the Scientific Revolution by Dryden.
Limited first edition of this idiosyncratic collection of re-designed chapbooks, based upon the collection of chapbook-collector Joseph Crawhall – his own copy, inscribed to him by the publisher.
First edition of the first handbook printed for the police force governed by London's Court of Aldermen, 5 years before the Metropolitan Police Act that formed the Scotland Yard.
First edition of this documentary history of the Vikings' artistic and cultural influence on England.
First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose.
Spectacular four-volume set, a revision and expansion of the original 1909 edition, introducing for the first time a chapter addressing American fashions and adding additional illustrations.
A rare artifact from the first major book printed with moveable type in the West.
First edition in modern English of the complete ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, a key historical document of the Early Medieval era composed during the reign of Alfred the Great.
First edition in this format, sumptuously illustrated, of Johnson's celebrated biographical encyclopedia of infamous criminals.
First edition of His Hawaiian Majesty Kalākaua's record of the myths, religion, and culture of his people, including the famous fifteenth-century story of the surf-riding princess Kelea.
First printing of the acclaimed historical reconstruction of Oskar Schindler's lifesaving heroism, the basis for the acclaimed film adaptation by Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List.
A history of Oxford University by the academic and folklorist.
Beautiful late 17th-century edition of a central primary source in the conquest of the Americas, bound somewhat incongruously with an early edition of French buccaneer Montaubon's 1695 voyage to the Caribbean.
First edition of this influential critique of British colonialism by "the most important Black intellectual in Trinidad during his lifetime" (Cedric J. Robinson).
First edition of this history of the English buccaneers who harried the Spanish during the Golden Age of Piracy.
First edition of this autobiographical account by a formerly enslaved Jamaican apprentice, revealing the grim facts of the new system – in reality continued slavery – after the British Abolition Law went into effect in 1834.
