Recent Acquisitions

  1. RICHARD of Wendover.

    Correctorium alchymiae … Das is reformierte...

    Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.

    First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...

    £4500

  2. MYLIUS, Georg, and Michael HOPF.

    De visitatione ecclesiastica.

    Jena, Tobias Steinmann, 1593.

    First edition, rare, of an early work on...

    £200

  3. LANDSBERG, Johannes Justus.

    Iohannis Iusti Lanspergii Bavari Carthusiani...

    Cologne, Melchior von Neuss, 1548.

    Later edition (first 1539) of paraphrases,...

    £950

  4. HOFFMEISTER, Johann.

    Loci communes rerum theologicarum, quae...

    [(Colophon:) Ingolstadt, Alexander Weissenhorn,...

    First edition. In the dedication to the...

    £500

  5. [BIBLE – OLD TESTAMENT.]

    Los cinco libros de la ley divina. De nuevo...

    Amsterdam, ‘en casa, y a costa de Selomoh...

    An uncommon and handsomely produced Pentateuch...

    £1850

  6. BEBEL, Heinrich.

    In hoc libro contine[n]tur haec Bebeliana...

    Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, 1508.

    First edition of a compendium of works...

    £3500

  7. [LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).] 

    Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse...

    ‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’...

    An early manuscript copy of a salacious...

    £850

  8. MILLER, Philip.

    The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what...

    London, John Rivington, H. Woodfall, A....

    A very attractive copy of the most popular...

    £165

  9. HIBBERD, James Shirley.

    The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year...

    London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.

    Edited by James Shirley Hibberd (1825–1890),...

    £100

  10. MARTIAL.

    Epigrammaton libri XIII. Ex fide vetustissimorum...

    Paris, Jean Libert, 1612 [(colophon:) 1613].

    An uncommon small-format edition of Martial’s...

    £650

  11. DIOMEDES; Aelius DONATUS; Johann CAESARIUS, editor.

    Grammatici opus, ab Iohanne Caesario, ita...

    Hagenau, Johann Setzer, 1526.

    A sammelband of four early sixteenth-century...

    £1250

  12. CUJAS, Jacques.

    Iacobi Cuiacii celeberrimi I. C. recitationes...

    Speyer, Bernhard Albin, 1594.

    First edition of these commentaries on...

    £750

  13. [BREVIARY, Use of Passau.]

    Breviarium s[ecundu]m chorum alme Ecclesie...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Petrus Liechtenstein...

    A rare Passau breviary with numerous woodcut...

    £4500

  14. LUCILIUS, Gaius; Franciscus DOUSA, editor.

    Satyrarum quae supersunt reliquiae. Franciscus...

    Leiden, Franciscus Raphelengius, ex Officina...

    First edition of the earliest Roman satirical...

    £950

  15. [NUNS.]

    Il paradiso in terra aperto alle sagre...

    Rome, Ottavio Puccinelli, 1747.

    Second edition (first 1718) of an anonymous...

    £1750

  16. PEPE, Stefano.

    [Half-title: ‘Il Cappuccino d’Este...

    [Italy, second half of the seventeenth...

    A seemingly unpublished life of Alfonso...

    £1250

  17. HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

    A Farewell to Arms.

    New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

    First edition, first printing, without...

    £1250

  18. BARLOW, [Francis].

    Barlow’s Birds and Beasts, in sixty-seven...

    London, Carington Bowles, [John Bowles,...

    An extremely rare edition of this drawing-book...

    £8500

  19. [MISSAL.]

    Nouveau paroissien romain, contenant l’offices...

    Lyons, H. Curnier, 1869.

    A pocket Paroissien in a charming...

    £275

  20. DONI, Anton Francesco.

    Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

    Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

    A handsome copy of the second edition of...

    £850