Mar 16, 2018 | 18th Century, Blog, Books
New-America’s First Best-Selling Female Author and Her Saucy Novel Once upon a time, a character named Charlotte Temple was wildly embraced by newly independent American readers, hungry for romance and excitement after the trauma of recent American Revolution.... 
Feb 10, 2018 | 18th Century, Blog, Books
“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald Jazz Age revels would do well to sober up quickly when confronted with this... 
Aug 12, 2015 | 18th Century, Blog, Books
Each month, we’ll be featuring an interesting antique item which appeared in one of our past auctions. This item has been sold. This stunning complete first edition set of De Montfaucon’s monumental works on world history contains 15 handsome volumes. The... 
Aug 1, 2015 | 18th Century, Blog, Ephemera
Our Latest Antique Book Find This Revolutionary War era land deed from Pennsylvania details a land purchase by a local Quaker family headed by a Philadelphia merchant, Benjamin Horner. Dated 1784, the legal document discusses a tract of land located in Northumberland... 
Jul 29, 2015 | 18th Century, Blog, Books
Our Latest Antique Book Find Penned by Richard Bradley FRS (1688 – 1732), a noted English botanist. After a 1714 trip to the Netherlands, Bradley became fascinated in horticulture, spending the following years writing and publishing important works on... 
May 7, 2014 | 18th Century, Blog, Books
Past Auction Highlight Each month, we’ll be featuring an interesting antique item which appeared in one of our past auctions. This item has been sold. A beautiful first edition set of Voltaire’s works under the title of “Collection Complette Des...
