Karl Marx Inscription

Capital, Volume I (1867) is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy.  The first of three volumes of Das Kapital, Kritik der politischen Ökonomie (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) was published on 14 September 1867, dedicated to Wilhelm Wolff, a close friend, and was the sole volume published in Karl Marx's lifetime.  This copy …

The History of the Coronation of James II

 Francis Sandford, London, 1687  (X.5.23) The Coronation ceremony of James II and VII, which took place on 23rd April 1685 in Westminster Abbey, was described and illustrated in Francis Sandford’s The History and Coronation of James II. The book, which was published in 1687, contains twenty-seven plates and three plans, images of regalia, processions, feasts, …