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JOHN BATE
The Mysteryes of Nature and Art 1634 1st edition
The book which inspired Isaac Newton to scientific inquiry

Gerard Blaes
Anatome Animalium
Amsterdam 1681 First edition

Bullion Report
One of the great works on money and banking
London 1810 First edition

Ephraim Chambers
Cyclopaedia
London 1728 First edition

Captain James Cook
A Voyage towards the South Pole
London 1777 First Edition

Charles Davenant
The Political and Commercial Works
London 1771 First Collected Edition

Alexis de Tocqueville
One of the most important texts in political literature
London 1835 First edition in English

Nicholas Dubois de Chemant
A Dissertation on Artificial Teeth. London 1804
The first monograph of false teeth - the second English printing

Francesco Feliciano
Libro di Arithmetica. Venice 1550
Italian commercial arithmetic

William Hamilton
Poems on Several Occasions
Glasgow 1748 First edition

Ebenezer Howard
To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform
The Concept of the Garden City

DAVID HUME
History of England 1754-1762
First editions

Six 17th Century editions of the Koran
French, English & Dutch Translations
Paris 1649, London 1649, Amsterdam 1658, Paris 1672, London 1688, Amsterdam 1696-98

Koran
1734
Sale's important translation

Koran
L'Alkoran. Paris 1647
The first French translation

Koran
Le Coran. Savary's translation with the rare A la Mecque imprint
Ferdinand de Lesseps copy

John Locke
Some considerations...raising the value of money
London 1692 First edition

JOHN LOCKE
An Essay concerning Humane Understanding
London 1695 3rd edition

JOHN LOCKE
Several Papers Relating to Money, Interest and Trade
First collected edition

Thomas Masterson
Arithmeticke 1592-1595
Elizabethan merchant's arithmetic

HENRI MATISSE
Paper Cut-Out Collection
A Collection of books designed by Matisse

JAMES AND JOHN STUART MILL
A Collection

Thomas Obicini
Grammatica Arabica
Rome 1631

LUCA PACIOLI
Suma de Arithmetica. Toscalano 1523
The First Exposition of Double-Entry Book-Keeping

John Parkinson
Paradisi in sole.
London 1629 First edition

JOHANN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI
Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt. Bern & Zurich 1801 1st edition
Pestalozzi's principles of education

François PÉTIS DE LA CROIX
The History of Genghizcan the Great
First edition in English

William Petty
Five Essays in Political Arithmetick.
London 1687 First edition

Giovanni Sfortunati
Nuovo Lume Libro di Arithmetica
Venice 1534 First edition

William Shaw
A Galic and English Dictionary. London 1780
The First Gaelic/English Dictionary

Robert Simson
Opera Quaedam Reliqua.
Glasgow 1776

Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1761 2nd edition

Adam Smith
Essays on Philosophical Subjects
1795 First edition

Adam Smith
Lectures on Justice
1896 first edition

Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations
Dublin 1776

Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations 1784 third edition
Original boards uncut

SIR JAMES STEUART
Principles of Political Oeconomy 1767 First edition
The first important English work on political economy.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island 1883
First Edition First Issue

Heinrich Stromer
Algorithmus Linealis
Leipzig 1512

William Thom
The Motives, Which have determined the University of Glasgow to desert the Blackfriar Church
Glasgow 1764 First edition

CUTHBERT TUNSTALL
de arte supputandi
Paris 1538

JOHN WHEELER
Treatise of Commerce. Middleburgh 1601
First edition. Presentation Copy

Robert Wooffendale
Practical Observations on the Human Teeth.
The first dentist to travel to & practice in America - an unrecorded copy
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