Recent Acquisitions

  1. JENKINS, Edward.

    The Devil’s Chain … Twentieth Thousand....

    [Southwark, M’Corquodale and Co. for]...

    A reissue of the illustrated edition, from...

    £100

  2. HARDY, Campbell.

    Sporting Adventures in the New World; or,...

    London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.

    First edition of this most interesting...

    £575

  3. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.

    Poems before Congress …

    London, [Bradbury and Evans for] Chapman...

    First edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s...

    £200

  4. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  5. ARENA, Antoine.

    Antonius de Arena Provençalis de bragardissima...

    London [i.e. Paris, Joseph-Gérard Barbou],...

    A fine copy of the 1758 edition of this...

    £1100

  6. [BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]

    Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema...

    Milan, Stamperia [dei Patrioti d’Italia]...

    An impassioned tract attacking the claims...

    £200

  7. ARMINESI, Rocco degli.

    Attila flagelum Dei, tradotto dalla vera...

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

    Very rare eighteenth-century edition of...

    £600

  8. DIONYSIUS of Halicarnassus.

    Antiquitatum Rom. libri XI. Ab Aemylio...

    Geneva, Jacob Stoer, 1614.

    A rare pocket-sized edition of Dionysius...

    £450

  9. [DODSLEY, Robert, et al.]

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

    Newport, J. Mallett, 1783.

    Rare printing, undertaken in Newport on...

    £450

  10. [WISHART, George.]

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

    [Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

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

    £1750

  11. TREVLYN, Valda.

    High Death.

    Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

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

    £75

  12. 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

  13. 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 this...

    £650

  14. [NUNS.]

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

    Florence, 20 March 1784.

    Extremely rare broadside confirming the...

    £450

  15. [NOVARA.]

    [Incipit:] Il vescovo di Novara...

    [Novara], 10 May 1805.

    An apparently unrecorded broadside from...

    £175

  16. [MILAN – DEATH DUTIES.]

    [Incipit:] Ad un reale dispaccio...

    Milan, Pirola brothers, [31 October 1787].

    Scarce edict issued by Ferdinand Karl,...

    £500

  17. HOLBEIN, Hans; Wenceslaus HOLLAR, engraver; [Francis DOUCE, editor].

    The Dance of Death, from the original Designs...

    [McMillan] for J. Coxhead, 1816.

    An attractive early nineteenth-century...

    £375

  18. GRÜNEISEN, [Karl].

    Niclaus Manuel: Leben und Werke eines Malers...

    Stuttgart & Tübingen, J.G. Cotta, 1837.

    First and only edition of the first separate...

    £120

  19. [DEATH CERTIFICATES.]

    Certificates recording the deaths of three...

    Rome, 1762–1819.

    An interesting set of death certificates...

    £750

  20. COUPÉ, Jacques-Michel.

    De la moralité des sépultures et de leur...

    Paris, Calixte Vollant, an IX [1800–1801].

    A scarce and most interesting pamphlet...

    £475