Recent Acquisitions

  1. MITCHISON, Naomi; Wyndham LEWIS, illustrator.

    Beyond this Limit …

    [London,] Jonathan Cape, [1935].

    First edition. This was Lewis’s...

    £75

  2. SHOBERL, Frederic, editor.

    Forget me not; a Christmas and New Year’s,...

    London, [Thomas Davison for] R[udolph]...

    The Anglo-German publisher Rudolph Ackermann’s...

    £150

  3. HIBBERD, James Shirley.

    The Garden Oracle and floricultural Year...

    London, Gardener’s Magazine Office, 1882.

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

    £100

  4. [JUVENILE.]

    Il piccolo Carlo, o novelle e conversazioni...

    Besançon, [Antonio] Montarsolo e Comp.,...

    Very rare Besançon-printed edition...

    £450

  5. [ALMANACK.]

    ...

    [Leipzig, Fischer and Wittig for] Berlin,...

    A literary almanack for 1927 with stories...

    £175

  6. [ALMANACK.]

    Альманахъ для всѣхъ. Книга...

    St Petersburg, “Novyi zhurnal dlia vsekh”,...

    First edition, extremely rare, of the...

    £200

  7. [ALMANACKS.]

    A bound collection of seven almanacks for 1816.

    London, The Company of Stationers, 1816.

    A standard collection of seven almanacks...

    £125

  8. [ALMANACK.]

    Le triomphe de la vertu. Sujets tirés...

    Paris, Janet, [1814].

    A very rare biblical almanack for 1814...

    £300

  9. [ALMANACK.]

    Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances...

    Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr Jubert’,...

    A seemingly unrecorded almanack for...

    £1450

  10. [ALMANACK.]

    étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses...

    Paris, [Jean-François-Hubert] Guillot, 1790.

    Very rare almanack for 1790, in a handsome...

    £1950

  11. [ALMANACK.]

    London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1785.

    [London,] Printed for the Company of Stationers,...

    A very attractive miniature London Almanack...

    £950

  12. [ALMANACK.]

    Étrennes mignones [sic], curieuses et...

    Paris, Claude-Jacques-Charles [Durand]...

    A very rare Parisian almanack for 1775,...

    £1500

  13. [ALMANACK.]

    The Daily Journal. Or, the Gentleman's...

    London, R. Baldwin, 1761.

    An interesting and extremely rare account...

    £850

  14. MILL, John Stuart.

    A System of Logic ratiocinative and inductive,...

    London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer,...

    Presentation copy, with Mill’s autograph...

    £1000

  15. LE PLAY, Frédéric.

    Les ouvriers européens. Tome premier [-6me].

    Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1879. 

    Second, greatly enlarged edition....

    £750

  16. LAWRENCE, William Beach.

    Two Lectures on Political Economy delivered...

    New York, G. & C & H. Carvill, 1832. 

    First edition, uncommon. The author,...

    £450

  17. KEYNES, John Maynard.

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest...

    New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. 

    First American edition (includes...

    £300

  18. MURDOCH, Iris.

    Sartre. Romantic Rationalist.

    Cambridge, Bowes & Bowes, 1953.

    First edition, the first published book...

    £200

  19. [BANK OF SCOTLAND.]

    Act of Parliament for erecting a Bank in...

    Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors...

    Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament...

    £650