Recent Acquisitions

  1. POMPONIO LETO, Giulio.

    In omnia quae quidem extant, P. Vergilii...

    Basel, [Johann Oporinus, 1544].

    Second edition of Leto’s influential...

    £450

  2. CLÜVER, Philipp.

    Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

    Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

    The 1686 edition of perhaps the most important...

    £2500

  3. GUILLIM, John.

    A Display of Heraldrie: manifesting a more...

    London, Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, 1638.

    Third edition, corrected and enlarged,...

    £950

  4. ARISTOTLE; THEOPHRASTUS; Theodorus GAZA and Pietro ALCIONIO, translators.

    Historiae. Cum de natura Animalium, tum...

    Lyons, [Nicolas Bacquenois for] Guillaume...

    A union of Aristotle on animals and Theophrastus...

    £800

  5. [LILY, William.]

    A short introduction of grammar generally...

    Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1709.

    Later editions (likely issued together)...

    £350

  6. GOELICKE, Andreas Ottomar.

    Disputatio physica experimentalis exhibens...

    Halle, Johann Montag, [1704].

    Scarce academic disputation on experimental...

    £275

  7. [BREWER, George.]

    The Siamese Tales, being a Collection of...

    London, Vernor & Hood and Champante &...

    First edition of an anonymously published...

    £950

  8. BOUTMY, C.

    ‘Exercitium quotidianum dedicatum perillustri...

    [Belgium, 1760.]

    An attractively bound unpublished devotional...

    £450

  9. DANETT, Thomas.

    A Continuation of the Historie of France,...

    London, Printed by Thomas East for Thomas...

    First edition, an original history composed...

    £1800

  10. [ABC.]

    Petite géographie amusante abécédaire...

    C. Lehuby, ‘Librairie de l’enfance...

    A charming and very rare ABC intended to...

    £3750

  11. LEE, Edwin.

    The Principal Baths of Germany [– The...

    London, Whittaker & Cp., Paris, Galignani...

    First edition, scarce, of Edwin Lee’s...

    £350

  12. CAMPBELL, Thomas.

    Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale....

    London, T. Bensley, for the Author ... 1809.

    First edition of Campbell’s most re-printed...

    £650

  13. OZEROV, Vladislav Aleksandrovich.

    Sochineniia … Chast’ pervaia [–vtoraia]...

    St Petersburg, Imperial Theatre, 1817 [-1816].

    One of two rival collected editions published...

    £1800

  14. VENERONI, Giovanni. 

    The Complete Italian Master; containing...

    London, J. Nourse, 1763. 

    First edition thus, revising an earlier...

    £750

  15. [PALACE THEATRE, SCUNTHORPE.]

    ‘Benefit to A. E. Dobney, Thursday,...

    [Scunthorpe, 1914.]

    A rare broadside programme for a benefit...

    £185

  16. MARTIAL.

    Epigrammaton libri XIII. Ex fide vetustissimorum...

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

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

    £650

  17. SOPHOCLES. 

    Tragoediae Sophoclis quotquot extant carmine...

    Antwerp, Jean Bellère, 1584.

    An early seventeenth-century sammelband...

    £950

  18. [BOUTREUX D’ESTIAU, Jacques de.]

    De la puissance roialle sur la police de...

    Paris, Pierre Durand, 1625.

    A pair of uncommon works defending the...

    £950

  19. ARIAS, Francisco.

    Paleys der deughden begrypende de naervolghinghe...

    Antwerp, Gheleyn Janssens, 1609.

    First Dutch edition of this work of Marian...

    £375

  20. [PSALMS.]

    Psalterium Davidis carmine redditum per...

    Paris, [(colophon:) Guillaume Morel for]...

    Seemingly unrecorded issue of the Psalms...

    £1250