Recent Acquisitions

  1. [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    An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....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

  2. SCHNEPFF, Dietrich.

    Oratio de vita et morte illustrissimae...

    Tübingen, Alexander Hock, 1583.

    Scarce work issued following the death...

    £550

  3. IRENICUS, Franciscus.

    Germaniae exegeseos volumina duodecima...

    [(Colophon:) Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm for...

    First editions of a pair of sixteenth-century...

    £3500

  4. DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

    Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

    Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

    Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

    £250

  5. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  6. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

    First and only edition, rare, of this...

    £375

  7. [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

  8. TAYLOR, Alfred Swaine.

    Notes for lectures on heat.

    [London,] c. 1844.

    An extensive set of lecture notes, with...

    £3750

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

    Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

    [(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

    First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin...

    £850

  12. [LOUIS XVI.]

    Le vertueux Louis XVI; précis de ses douleurs,...

    Lille, L. Lefort, [1817].

    An seemingly unrecorded royalist panegyric-cum-almanack,...

    £475

  13. 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

  14. GERHARD, Johann.

    Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

    Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

    First English-printed Latin edition...

    £950

  15. ‘DORNIS, Jean’ [pseud. Élena BEER].

    La voie douloureuse.

    [Évreux, Charles Hérissey for] Paris,...

    First edition of Jean Dornis’ first...

    £275

  16. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

    One of three editions, all of the same...

    £500

  17. PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.

    Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1928.

    First edition of Richmond’s controversial...

    £400

  18. [LE MARCHE.]

    Deed relating to the sale of property in...

    [Rome, 1616.]

    A curiously bound public instrument...

    £850

  19. 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

  20. [TAYLOR, John.]

    The Column called the Monument, described,...

    Bryan … for Samuel Arnott, Keeper of...

    Third edition (first 1787) of this guidebook...

    £350