Recent Acquisitions

  1. ADDAMS, Jane.

    Twenty Years at Hull House with autobiographical...

    New York, Macmillan, 1910.

    First edition, second printing (issued...

    £650

  2. PESENTI, Giovanni Paolo.

    Pellegrinaggio di Gierusalemme fatto, e...

    Bergamo, Comin Ventura, 1615.

    First edition of Pesenti’s account...

    £4500

  3. [MARIA THERESA.]

    Sammelband of twenty-three works, including...

    [Naples, 1781.]

    An extraordinary sammelband gathering...

    £1950

  4. ARMINESI, Rocco degli.

    Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera...

    Venice, Omobon Bettanino, [mid-eighteenth...

    Very rare eighteenth-century edition...

    £600

  5. BROWNE, Thomas.

    Religio Medici, Urn Burial, Christian Morals,...

    [Printed by the Ballantyne Press, and...

    First edition thus, limited to 310 unnumbered...

    £2000

  6. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  7. [BIBLE.]

    Biblia sacra vulgatae editionis Sixti Quinti...

    Antwerp, Jan Moretus ‘ex officina Plantiniana’,...

    Plantin edition of the Clementine Vulgate,...

    £1250

  8. LEE, Laurie.

    Cider with Rosie … with drawings by John Ward.

    London, Hogarth Press, 1959.

    First edition, second impression, the...

    £1000

  9. [DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]

    The Oeconomy of Human Life, in two parts,...

    Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.

    Rare printing, undertaken in Newport...

    £450

  10. [WISHART, George.]

    I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi,...

    [Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

    First edition, rare, a fine-paper copy...

    £1750

  11. [WINSLOW, Jacob Benignus.]

    Terrible supplice et cruel désespoir des...

    [Paris, Joseph Bullot, 1752].

    Extremely rare first edition of this...

    £850

  12. TREVLYN, Valda.

    High Death.

    Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

    One of 100 copies of this poem on death...

    £75

  13. [TOWNLEY, William Dalison.]

    Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1877, containing...

    London, [Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. for]...

    A Punch almanack for 1877 with...

    £450

  14. [SHEPHEARD, James.]

    The Dying Speech of James Shepheard: who...

    [London, s.n., 1718.]

    One of at least five printings of this...

    £750

  15. SCHNEPF, Dietrich.

    Oratio de vita et morte illustrissimae...

    Tübingen, Alexander Hock, 1583.

    Scarce work issued following the death...

    £550

  16. ROCHESTER, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, Wentworth Dillon ROSCOMMON, 4th Earl of, et al.

    A Collection of Poems: viz. the Temple...

    London, printed for Daniel Brown and Benjamin...

    Fourth edition of the important ‘Temple...

    £500

  17. PITOU, Louis-Ange.

    L’Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons, ou...

    Paris, [Beraud for] L.A. Pitou, 31 August...

    First and only surviving edition of...

    £650

  18. [NUNS.]

    [Incipit:] Illustrissimi Sigg. Sigg....

    Florence, 20 March 1784.

    Extremely rare broadside confirming...

    £450

  19. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175

  20. [MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]

    [Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio...

    Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].

    Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl,...

    £500