Recent Acquisitions

  1. DOLCE, Lodovico.

    Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele, e...

    Venice, Giovanni Battista, & Marchio Sessa,...

    First edition of this exposition of Aristotle’s...

    £2500

  2. [DOVES PRESS.] 

    Pervigilium Veneris. 

    Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson...

    One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive...

    £950

  3. [THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

    Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

    Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

    Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

    £4000

  4. LUCRETIUS. 

    Titi Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri...

    Padua, Giuseppe Comino [for Volpi], 2...

    First Volpi–Comino edition of Lucretius’s...

    £450

  5. ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.

    [Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....

    Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.

    First part of the first and only edition...

    £450

  6. CAESAR, Gaius Julius.

    C. Julii Caesaris quae extant. Accuratissime...

    London, Jacob Tonson, 1712.

    First edition of the celebrated Tonson’s...

    £9500

  7. [PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]

    La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...

    Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.

    First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

    £1250

  8. FLORUS, L. Annaeus; Lucius AMPELIUS; Claude SAUMAISE, editor.

    [Rerum romanarum libri IV and Epitome...

    Leiden, Elzevir, 1638.

    The attractive Elzevir edition of Florus’...

    £650

  9. [EMBROIDERED BINDING.]

    Etrennes mignonnes, pour l’an de grace...

    Liège, Everard Kints, [1753].

    A charming almanack for 1753 printed in...

    £400

  10. [ALMANACK.]

    L’Esprit des chansonniers, extrain [sic?]...

    Paris, Le Fuel, [1826?].

    A very rare enamelled metal binding with...

    £2750

  11. BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis).

    Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

    London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

    First edition, in one volume, recounting...

    £3750

  12. [NEW YORK.]

    Notarial instrument attesting to the residence...

    New York, 27 July 1797.

    An interesting notarial document recording...

    £850

  13. [STEREOGRAPH.]

    ‘Going Out’ [and] ‘Coming In’.

    London, Gebhardt, Rottmann & Co., [late...

    An amusing pair of stereos depicting the...

    £70

  14. [STEREOGRAPH.]

    James ELLIOTT, photographer.

    ‘The first Love Letter’ [and] ‘Difference...

    Three hand-tinted albumen prints in stereo...

    £175

  15. [HAMBURG.] 

    A sammelband of material relating to the...

    [Germany, 1842.] 

    A fine and unusual volume of materials...

    £850

  16. GOLDONI, Carlo.

    Scelta di alcune commedie. Per uso de’...

    Livorno, Assunto Barbani, 1816.

    First edition printed in Italy of a collection...

    £175

  17. [LORD LEYCESTER HOSPITAL, WARWICK.]

    Account of the Charity of Leicester’s...

    Warwick, mid-nineteenth century.

    A manuscript copy of the sixteenth-century...

    £350

  18. MILLER, Philip.

    The Gardeners Kalendar, directing what...

    The Fourteenth Edition. London, John Rivington,...

    A very attractive copy of the most popular...

    £165

  19. [LILY, William.]

    A short introduction of grammar compiled...

    London, S. Buckley and T. Longman, 1738.

    Two beautifully printed eighteenth-century...

    £550

  20. KECHT, Johann Sigismund.

    Der verbesserte praktische Weinbau in Gärten...

    Berlin, [Trowitzsch and Son for] the author,...

    Third, expanded edition (first 1813) of...

    £450