Recent Acquisitions

  1. [ZATTA, Antonio.] 

    Il filosofo del nord, ovvero Corso di morale...

    ‘Londra’ [i.e. Venice], [Zatta],...

    First edition under this title of this...

    £950

  2. ZAND, Nathalie.

    [Drop-head title:] Les olives inférieures...

    [Paris, 31 December 1927.]

    Scarce offprint of a work on the inferior...

    £550

  3. YARRELL, William.

    A History of British Fishes … illustrated...

    London, Samuel Bentley for John van Voorst,...

    First collected editions, with an autograph...

    £750

  4. XENOPHON; Antonmaria SALVINI, translator.

    Di Senofonte Efesio degli amori di Abrocome...

    London (i.e. Florence?), ‘presso gli...

    Second edition of this erotic work on the...

    £650

  5. WOOLF, Virginia.

    Reviewing … with a Note by Leonard Woolf.

    London, Hogarth Press, 1939.

    First edition of Woolf’s satirical take...

    £100

  6. [WOMEN-PEARLS.]

    De Vrouwen-Peirle, ofte dryvoudige historie...

    Ghent, J. Begyn, [1780–1810].

    An attractive copy of the ‘Women-pearls’,...

    £550

  7. WITTKOWER, Jochanan.

    Agudath Perachim. ‘Blüthenstrauß’....

    Altona, the Bonn Brothers for the author, 1880.

    First and only edition of this anthology...

    £350

  8. [WISHART, George.]

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

    [Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

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

    £1750

  9. [WINSLOW, Jacob Benignus.]

    Terrible supplice et cruel désespoir des...

    [Paris, Joseph Bullot, 1752].

    Extremely rare first edition of this anonymous...

    £850

  10. [WINCHESTER COLLEGE.]

    Printed and manuscript election roll.

    [Winchester,] ‘1 November 1782’.

    A remarkable eighteenth-century part-printed...

    £1250

  11. [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

  12. WILLIAMS, William Carlos.

    Paterson [Books 1, 2, 3 & 4].

    Norfolk, New Classics, [1951]. [with:]

    First collected edition of Books One...

    £1250

  13. WATSON, Sheila.

    ‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the...

    The recordings included are three sections...

    £50

  14. [WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.

    An Eulogy on the Life of General George...

    Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.

    First edition of this eulogy on Washington,...

    £250

  15. [WARD, Edward, and VOLTAIRE.] 

    The Humourous and Diverting Story of Two...

    6, Punderson’s-Place, Bethnal-Green-Road’,...

    Seemingly unrecorded edition of this humorous...

    £450

  16. [WALSH, William.]

    A Funeral Elegy upon the Death of the Queen....

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1695.

    First edition of Walsh’s elegy on the...

    £350

  17. [WALL, Thomas].

    A Second Christian Warning-Piece; wherein...

    London, 1681-2.

    First edition, very rare, of a vehement...

    £1750

  18. [WALLPAPER.]

    A substantial album of printed wallpaper...

    France, 1923–24.

    A delightful sample album of French wallpapers...

    £4750

  19. [WALKER, Patrick.]

    Some remarkable Passages of the Life and...

    Glasgow: J. and M. Robertson, 1794.

    Very rare chapbook life of the Covenanter...

    £225

  20. [VITTORIO EMANUELE II.]

    Alla gloriosa memoria di Vittorio Emanuele...

    New York, Tipografia della scuola italiana,...

    First edition of this work recording a...

    £500