Recent Acquisitions
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HENNEQUIN, Pierre.
Nouveau cours de rhétorique, à l’usage...
Moscow, Auguste Semen, 1818.
Only edition, very uncommon, of this guide...
£950
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[AQUHORTIES.]
Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...
Edinburgh, Printed by J. Moir, Paterson’s...
Broadside rules for the newly established...
£850
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[ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF THE MOST HOLY CRUCIFIX.]
Distinta descrizione della machina, luminari,...
Rome, per il Casaletti, 1775.
Rare record of a procession made by members...
£250
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[OVERINGTON.]
Overington family pedigree.
Kirdford, c. 1620–1674.
A manuscript pedigree on vellum tracing...
£500
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FERRI, Giovanni.
Discours sur les principes de l’education...
Angers, Frères Mame, 1806.
Only edition, rare, of this speech by the...
£225
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GAMON, Christophe de.
La semaine, ou création du monde du sieur...
[Geneva,] Gédéon Petit, 1609.
Unauthorised second edition, scarcer than...
£950
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[CARDUCCI, Giosuè, Olindo GUERRINI, et al., editors.]
Il Matto. Anno I – Num. 1 [– Num. 13;...
Bologna, 19 April [– 29 June] 1874.
Very rare complete run of this short-lived...
£1000
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FENOUILLOT DE FALBAIRE, Charles-Georges.
Le fabricant de Londres, drame en cinq...
Paris, chez Delalain, 1771.
First edition of a London-set play by the...
£250
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[VERACI, Gaetano.]
Nuova cicalata sopra la coda in forma di...
[S.l., s.n,. c. 1770.]
Second edition, extremely rare and significantly...
£850
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[ROUSSEL DE LA TOUR, Claude Pierre GOUJET, and Abbé MINARD, editors.]
Extraits des assertions dangereuses et...
Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1762.
First edition of this systematic selection...
£1500
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SCARRON, Paul.
Le Marquis ridicule, ou la comtesse faite...
[Leiden, Elzevier], 1656.
First Elzevier editions, very rare, of...
£800
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[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.]
Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...
[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].
Very rare proposal for a new opera house...
£475
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[MURDER.]
Arrest de la cour du Parlement, qui condamne...
Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1778.
Very rare decree documenting the crimes...
£175
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[BRISTOL.]
The Bristol Contest, being a Collection...
Bristol, ‘sold by the Printing-Office...
Extremely rare first edition of this Bristol-printed...
£650
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GELLIUS, Aulus.
Noctium Atticarum commentaria per Bonfinem...
Venice, Giovanni Tacuino, 1517.
Second edition of Gellius’s opus with...
£5500
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AURIGNAC, Sara Thérèse d’.
Cahier de dessins.
[Villiers-en-Bière], c. 1896.
An album of fin-de-siècle sketches by...
£875
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CELLINI, Benvenuto.
Vita di Benvenuto Cellini orefice e scultore...
‘Cologne’ [i.e. Florence],...
The counterfeit edition of Benvenuto Cellini’s...
£675
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[ZATTA, Antonio.]
Il filosofo del nord, ovvero Corso di morale...
‘Londra’ [i.e. Venice], [Zatta],...
First edition under this title of this...
£950
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COMIDAS DE CARBOGNANO, Cosimo.
Primi principi della gramatica Turca ad...
Rome, stamperia della Sac. Congr. di Prop....
The first complete Ottoman Turkish grammar...
£1500
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[DAGUERRE.] MAYER & PIERSON [after Charles Richard MEADE.]
Carte-de-visite albumen print portrait...
Paris, late 1860s.
In 1848 the pioneering American photographer...
£1200