Recent Acquisitions
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[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]
An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....
London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.
Scarce second edition – in fact a...
£1500
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SCHNEPFF, Dietrich.
Oratio de vita et morte illustrissimae...
Tübingen, Alexander Hock, 1583.
Scarce work issued following the death...
£550
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IRENICUS, Franciscus.
Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...
[(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...
First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...
£3500
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DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.
Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...
Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.
Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...
£250
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DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.
Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...
Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.
A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...
£450
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[CRIMEAN WAR.]
Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....
Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].
First and only edition, rare, of this...
£375
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[WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.
A short and plain Instruction for the better...
London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...
Scarce first posthumous edition of this...
£250
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TAYLOR, Alfred Swaine.
Notes for lectures on heat.
[London,] c. 1844.
An extensive set of lecture notes, with...
£3750
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PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.
De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen,...
Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.
First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville;...
£250
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PLINY the Elder; [Jean de LAET, editor].
Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII.
Leiden, [Bonaventure & Abraham I] Elzevir,...
An attractive set of the first and only...
£650
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MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.
Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...
[(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].
First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin...
£850
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[LOUIS XVI.]
Le vertueux Louis XVI; précis de ses douleurs,...
Lille, L. Lefort, [1817].
An seemingly unrecorded royalist panegyric-cum-almanack,...
£475
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GILES of Rome; [Bernardo GRANELLI and GILES of Viterbo, editors].
Comentaria in viii. libros physicorum...
[(Colophon:) Padua, Hieronymus de Durantibus,...
An uncommon Paduan imprint containing...
£5000
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GERHARD, Johann.
Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...
Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...
First English-printed Latin edition...
£950
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‘DORNIS, Jean’ [pseud. Élena BEER].
La voie douloureuse.
[Évreux, Charles Hérissey for] Paris,...
First edition of Jean Dornis’ first...
£275
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BURNET, Gilbert.
A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...
Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.
One of three editions, all of the same...
£500
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PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.
Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit...
Cambridge, University Press, 1928.
First edition of Richmond’s controversial...
£400
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[LE MARCHE.]
Deed relating to the sale of property in...
[Rome, 1616.]
A curiously bound public instrument...
£850
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ADRICHEM, Christian van; Francesco BALDELLI, translator.
Gerusalemme e suoi dintorni ai tempi di...
Genoa, Tipografia arcivescovile, 1882.
Scarce first edition thus of Baldelli’s...
£200
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[TAYLOR, John.]
The Column called the Monument, described,...
Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...
Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...
£350