Raspische Buchhandlung, Nürnberg/Nuremberg 1785-88. "Pocket edition" of 250 plates from Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's work on the American flora Selectarum stirpium Americanarum Historia, first published in 1763. 50 new plates added by the publisher. Book no. 800661

Amsterdam 1720. First German edition of this important work from the German philosopher and mathematical genius Leibniz [1646-1716]. The work was originally published in French in 1710, but this edition also has his biography, his portrait and the foldable plate of his famous calculator. Book no. 707386

London 1782-1788. One of the milestones of historical writing. Gibbon has inspired and enlightened numerous generations on antiquity and the Middle Ages [the work covers the time from the Death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD to the Fall of Constantinoble in 1453], and even though many of his ideas and chronologies have later been rebuked, the majestic and ground breaking work is still in print and read today. Book no. 831202