Recent Acquisitions

  1. GALUPPI, Baldassare.

    Daniel in lacu leonum modi sacri recinendi...

    Venice, s.n., 1773.

    First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

    £650

  2. FOURCROY DE GUILLERVILLE, Jean-Louis de.

    Les Enfans élevés dans l’ordre de la...

    Paris, brothers Estienne, and Lausanne,...

    Second edition of Fourcroy de Guillerville’s...

    £250

  3. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

    Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

    Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

    £125

  4. [EDUCATION.]

    ‘École communale de garçons de Ste...

    Sainte-Florence, 1876–1877.

    A very interesting and extremely detailed...

    £650

  5. COLIN, Hyacinthe.

    Vie de la venerable servante de dieu Marie...

    Paris, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hérissant, 1744.

    Uncommon first edition of this biography...

    £500

  6. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Tommaso MEDINA, translator.

    Il ratto di Proserpina di Claudio Claudiano...

    Brescia, Bettoni, 1804.

    Very rare first edition of a translation...

    £650

  7. CIGAULD, Vincent.

    Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...

    (Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...

    Extremely rare first edition of this legal...

    £2500

  8. BREVIARY,

    in Latin, from the Sanctorale, with text...

    Northern Italy, late 15th century.

    A well-preserved leaf from an attractive...

    £350

  9. BATTEN, Henry, and Henry VINER, composers and arrangers.

    Responses, Suffrages, Tersanctus, and Chants,...

    Penzance, Viner’s Musical Repository, 1844.

    Exceedingly rare first and only edition...

    £300

  10. XENOPHON; [Philipp MELANCHTHON, editor].

    Ξενοφωντος απαντα. Xenophontis...

    Schwäbisch Hall, [Peter Braubach], 1540.

    The first complete edition of Xenophon’s...

    £4000

  11. THEODORET.

    Διαλογοι τρεις κατα τινων...

    Leipzig, [(colophon:) Ernst Vögelin], 1568.

    First edition of Strigel’s Latin translation...

    £1350

  12. STEPHANUS of Byzantium; HANNO; Abraham Van BERKEL, editor and translator.

    Genuina Stephani Byzantini de urbibus et...

    Leiden, Daniel van Gaasbeeck, 1674.

    First edition thus, a volume of short and...

    £450

  13. [‘ROBERTI, Antonius’, pseud.]; George PERKINS, editor.

    Clavis Homerica, reserans significationes,...

    London, E. Griffin for Godfrey Emerson, 1638.

    First London edition, ‘with the Catholic...

    £600

  14. LONGINUS, [Pseudo-]; Jonathan TOUP and David RUHNKEN, editors.

    Quae supersunt Graece et Latine.

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.

    The first Toup edition of Longinus’ On...

    £375

  15. HOMER; Hubert VAN GIFFEN, editor.

    Οδυσσεια … Odyssea … Batrachomyomachia,...

    Cum praefatione, scholiis, & indice …...

    First Rihel edition of the Odyssey,...

    £850

  16. DIOGENES LAERTIUS; Henri ESTIENNE, editor.

    Περι βιων, δογματων και...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1570.

    First Estienne edition of The Lives...

    £850

  17. CHEKE, John, Sir, and Stephen [GARDINER], Bishop of Winchester.

    De pronuntiatione graecae potissimum linguae...

    Basel, Nikolaus Episcopius the younger, 1555.

    First edition of this collection of letters...

    £950

  18. [ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA PLANUDEA.]

    Ανθολογια διαφορων επιγραμματων...

    [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1566.

    First Estienne edition of the Planudean...

    £5000

  19. [BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT and APOCRYPHA, Greek; Johann LONITZER, editor.]

    Της θειας γραφης παλαιας...

    Strasbourg, Wolfgang Köpfel, 1526.

    The first edition of the Old Testament...

    £8500

  20. BEAUMONT, Joseph.

    Psyche: or Loves Mysterie in XX. Canto’s:...

    London, Printed by John Dawson for George...

    First edition of this lengthy religious...

    £1250