Printing & the Mind of Man
WALTER BAGEHOT
The English Constitution 1867 First edition
One of the most important texts in political literature. Queen Victoria’s daughter's copy
EDWARD COKE
The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England.
1629 Second edition
HIPPOCRATES
Octoginta Volumina. Rome 1525 First edition
‘The Father of Medicine’ – a physician’s copy
![Justinian I. Codex Justinianus [with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius and the Summaria of Hieronymous Clarius] Venice, Bernardinus Stagninus de Tridino 16 Sept 1495](http://www.riley-smith.com/hamish/gfx/media/home/justiniancodex1495.jpg)
JUSTINIAN I
Codex Justinianus [with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius and the Summaria of Hieronymous Clarius] Venice, Bernardinus Stagninus de Tridino 16 Sept 1495
Justinian’s Codification of Roman Law - “the most notable and enduring achievement of the age”
![Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de MONTESQUIEU. De l’Esprit des Loix. Paris [1748]
First edition](http://www.riley-smith.com/hamish/gfx/media/home/images/montesquieu1748spines.jpg)
CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT, BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
De l’Esprit des Loix. Paris [1748]
First edition
The Doctrine of the Separation of Powers A universal criterion of Constitutional Government
SIR THOMAS MORE
Utopia.
Dublin 1737 First Dublin edition
JOHANN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI
Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt. Bern & Zurich 1801 1st edition
Pestalozzi's principles of education
DAVID RICARDO
Principles of Political Economy 1817 First edition
One of the most important works of economics of the 19th century
ADAM SMITH
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Glasgow 1805
First printing in Scotland and first with a portrait
ADAM SMITH
The Wealth of Nations 1784 third edition
Original boards uncut
