Firsts 2026

In keeping with this year’s theme, Revolution, for Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair we are pleased to present a selection of seventy-five books on revolutionary women as well as revolutions in science and technology, religion and politics, and culture and the arts. Among them you will find works on tyranny, crucifixion, and against the torture of witches; a hat-merchant’s copy of Das Kapital; Machiavelli in English and a bilingual technological treatise with the earliest depiction of a bookwheel; the first work on electricity; lectures on climate change by John Ruskin and by William Burroughs; Wilde’s Salomé, both illustrated by Beardsley and performed in Tokyo; a psychedelic 1960s periodical and a pioneering work on mushrooms; works on female suffragists and cyclists; Victorian peepshows and children’s movables; and much more.

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54 items
  • POPPER, Karl R. The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
    £1,000.00
    £1,000.00
  • [PSEUDO-AUGUSTINUS.] Sermones Sancti Augustini ad heremitas.
    £3,850.00
    £3,850.00
  • Le diverse et artificiose machine … Nelle qualsi si contengono varij et …
    £24,000.00
    £24,000.00
  • RAVENSCROFT, Edward The English Lawyer, a comedy
    £2,000.00
    £2,000.00
  • REGO, Sebastião do. Vida do veneravel padre Joseph Vaz, da congregaçaõ do oratorio de S. Filippe Neri da Cidade de Goa, na India Oriental; Fundador da laboriosa Missaõ, que os Congregados desta Casa tem à sua conta na Ilha de Ceylaõ. Composta pelo padre…
    £2,750.00
    £2,750.00
  • RUGGLE, George Ignoramus, comoedia coram regia maiestate Jacobi regis anliae etc.
    £1,250.00
    £1,250.00
  • RUSSELL, John, Lord . The Life and Times of Charles James Fox.
    £750.00
    £750.00
  • RUTHERFORD, Ernest. Radioactive Transformations.
    £375.00
    £375.00
  • SMITH, Patti Just Kids.
    £800.00
    £800.00
  • SOLANAS, Valerie. SCUM Manifesto.
    £375.00
    £375.00
  • SOUTHEY, Robert. All for Love; and The Pilgrim to Compostella.
    £300.00
    £300.00
  • STOPES, Marie. Contraception (Birth Control): Its Theory, History and Practice.
    £650.00
    £650.00
  • STOPES, Marie. Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties.
    £1,200.00
    £1,200.00
  • STURT, John ( engraver ). The Book of Common Prayer And Administration Of The Sacraments And Other Rites And Ceremonies Of The Church According To The Use Of The Church Of England Together With The Psalter Or Psalms Of David Pointed As They Are To Be Sun…
    £2,400.00
    £2,400.00
  • [TERIADE, pseudonym for Stratis ELEFTHERIADES, ( editor )]. VERVE Issues 1-4. I. December 1937; II. Spring 1938 (March–June); III. October–December 1938; IV. January–March 1939.
    £4,750.00
    £4,750.00
  • TRADE CATALOGUE FOR BRITISH INDIA. Treacher & Co., Ltd. General Merchants. Bombay, Byculla & Poona [ cover title ].
    £800.00
    £800.00
  • TRESSELL, Robert. [pseud. Robert Noonan] The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
    £1,750.00
    £1,750.00
  • TUTTI, Cosey Fanni. Art Sex Music.
    £450.00
    £450.00
  • VIRGIL; John MARTYN ( translator ). Georgicarum libri quatior. The Georgicks of Virgil, with an English Translation and Notes.
    £1,000.00
    £1,000.00
  • WASSON, Valentina Pavlovna and R. Gordon WASSON. Mushrooms, Russia and History.
    £7,000.00
    £7,000.00
  • WHITMAN, Walt Leaves Of Grass.
    £7,000.00
    £7,000.00
  • WILDE, Oscar [ Lord Alfred Douglas, (translator)]. Salome. A tragedy in one act.
    £4,000.00
    £4,000.00