We deal in rare books and manuscripts, specializing in seventeenth and eighteenth century British material relating to travel, trade, science, medicine, language, religion and social history.

Select prints, drawings and objects connected with our areas of interest are included also in our inventory.

Trading by catalogue – both printed and online – we aim to produce at least two per year.

Founded in 2006, we are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

Directors: Samuel Gedge & Ernesta Campaner.
Registered in England: 05873849.
VAT No.: GB897420290

Samuel Gedge Ltd.

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Read about items sold by Samuel Gedge

• "Illuminated pedigree roll of Sir Philip Sidney." (Friends of The National Libraries)
• "The secret lives of books – occasional tales from the Bodleian." (The Spectator)
• "Reunited documents offer slave trade insight." (The University of Exeter)
• "Chinese Woodblock." (Serica)
• "Copycat Copiers? Frederick Folsch, Ralph Wedgwood, and the 'Improved Manifold Writer'." (Bodleian Library)
• "Lewis Powell of Lamphey pedigree roll." (National Library of Wales)
• "Imagining an 18th century Jane Doe." (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• "My True Meaning: emotions in seventeenth-century wills." (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• "Dancing all night with Aphra Behn: a recently acquired diary of Jeffrey Boys of Betterhanger, 1667." (Bodleian Library)
• "The Expulsion from Eden depicted in Georgian cut paper." (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
• "Grand tour sketchbook of James Six." (Beinecke Library, Yale University)
• "Gardening in the 18th century: A seed shop in North-East England." (British Library)
• "Buying books on witchcraft in 17th century London." (Bodleian Library)
• "William Davenport & Co. Account book relating to ship voyages, 1777–1784." (The Huntington)