Vintage & Antiquarian Highlights from our Display Cases
The Oldest Book in Our Collection
People often ask what the oldest book in the store is…
Currently it is Remonstrances Tres-Hymbles av Roy de France which was printed in 1588 and is bound in vellum.
This tract was a call to action in response to the troubled state of the French kingdom at the time. Coincidentally or not, the regime of King Henry III was toppled later that same year.
Books for Children
Signed Canadian First Edition of Emily of New Moon
Vintage Editions by Andrew Lang
Browse our vintage and collectable Alice in Wonderland editions
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Published 1917
The Swiss Family Robinson
Grimm’s German Popular Stories published 1823 (Rebound)
History and Reference
The Scarlet Book of Free Masonry
by M.W. Redding Published 1904
The Romance of Polar Exploration
by G. Firth Scott. Published 1907.
The Sinking of the Titanic/ ‘Story of the Wreck of the Titanic: The Ocean’s Greatest Disaster’.
South Africa and the Transvaal War
The Age We Live In
8 Volume Set
Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies. Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana. Indians and Indians Wars. The Past and Present of the Rocky Mountain Country. 1864-1900
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary
Advice and Instruction
Published 1866.
The Beauties of history; or, pictures of virtue and vice.
Polite Life or What is Right in Etiquette and The Social Arts
Mrs. Beeton’s Household Management
‘New Edition’ No publication date stated.
The Chess Player’s Manual
by G. H.D. Gossip. Published 1883.
Caxton’s Game and Playe of the Chesse. Published 1883. ‘A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition’ which was published 1474 which was one of the earliest books ever printed in English.
Gardening, Animals and Nature
The Ladies Flora for 1854
Choice Garden Flowers Published 1860
The Royal Natural History: Volumes I & II Mammals 1893-1894
Mrs. Loudon’s Instructions in Gardening for Ladies
Astrology
The Astrological Judgment and Practice of Physick
by Richard Saunders. Published 1677.
Astronomy and Elementary Philosophy
Translated from the Latin of Placidus de Titus’. ‘The Whole Carefully Revised by M. Sibley.’
Lilly’s Christian Astrology
Fiction and Mythology
First Edition of Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Charles Dickens, Illustrated by Phiz, Seymour and Boss
First UK Edition, Early Issue with mixed issue points
The Odyssey & The Iliad: 2 Volume Set
The History of the Renowned Prince Arthur: Vol II Only
The History of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
with illustrations by Gustave Dore
The Ingoldsby Legends. Illustrated by H.G. Theaker.
Published 1911 with 16 full-colour illustrations
Greenmantle
The Complete Novels of the Bronte Sisters: 7 Volume Set
Poetry, Plays and Songs
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: 4 Volume Set
Good King Wenceslas: A Carol
Limited edition of 125 copies of which 113 were for sale. Published 1895.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Plays of Shakespeare
The Little Shakespeare published in 1908 bound in wood
Leaves of Grass
Signed by Walt Whitman on the title page. Special Ed’n. 300 Copies only printed’. With tipped-in photograph of Walt Whitman as the frontispiece. Fully-bound in dark brown leather with leather clasp on front. 1889.
Christmas Carols: Old and New
The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson
Religion and Spirituality
New Devotional and Practical Pictorial Family Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments. Published mid 1800’s
The Complete Domestic Bible fully-bound in leather
Book of Common Prayer/ Hymns Ancient and Modern
The Illuminated Scripture Text Book
Book of Common Prayer. Bound in Ivory with leather spine. (Sold)
The World’s Worship in Stone
French and Foreign Languages
French Edition of The Confessions of Saint Augustine – Published in 1620
Vita R.P. Iosephi Anchietae Societatis Iesv Sacred
