Recent Acquisitions

  1. THICKNESSE, Philip.

    A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...

    I [all published]. London: Printed...

    First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...

    £1850

  2. [PSALMS.]

    Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...

    Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...

    New edition of the metrical Psalms of the...

    £950

  3. [MASS.]

    Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata;...

    Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.

    An apparently unrecorded edition of...

    £300

  4. DARRÉ, G.G.

    ‘Conferences diaconales données par...

    Auch, 1864.

    An attractively written manuscript of Abbé...

    £200

  5. [CAPUCHINS.]

    Diploma conferring ‘privilegium maximum’.

    ‘Bojonii’, 22 October 1779.

    An attractive diploma issued by Erhard...

    £450

  6. [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

  7. ROSINI, Giovanni. 

    Alla memoria di Maria Antinori vedova del...

    Pisa, Niccolò Capurro, 1852. 

    Scarce first and only edition of this poem...

    £275

  8. PASSI, Marco Celio.

    Memorie sulla vita di Donna Giuseppina...

    Bergamo, Stamperia Mazzoleni, 1832.

    Scarce first edition of a touching memorial...

    £300

  9. [GREY, Jane, Lady.]

    ‘The last days of Lady Jane Grey’.

    [c. 1870?].

    A manuscript extract, unfinished or incomplete,...

    £175

  10. DRYDEN, John.

    Eleonora: a Panegyrical Poem: dedicated...

    London, Printed for Jacob Tonson … 1692.

    First edition of Dryden’s eulogy for...

    £275

  11. [VACCINATION.]

    Agli abitanti del dipartimento dell’Ombrone...

    Siena, Onorato Porri, 1808.

    A seemingly unrecorded broadside promoting...

    £650

  12. [SASSOON, Siegfried.] SURTEES, [Robert Smith]; Lionel GOUGH, editor.

    Hunting Scenes from Surtees.

    London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953.

    Sassoon’s proof copy of Hunting Scenes...

    £850

  13. BUXTON, Thomas Fowell.

    An Inquiry, whether Crime and Misery are...

    London, [J. M’Creery] for John & Arthur...

    Third edition, published the same year...

    £195

  14. PERSIUS; [Thomas BREWSTER, translator].

    The Satires of Persius translated into...

    London, Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

    Second edition, with the addition of Bayle’s...

    £375

  15. [CAVALLERI, Paolo Agostino.]

    Lettera dall’Adriatico del signor Antonio...

    Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1792 (colophon 1793).

    First edition, uncommon, of this counter-revolutionary...

    £375

  16. SHAKESPEARE, William, and Bolemir IZBORSKÝ, pseud. [i.e. Antonín MAREK], translator.

    Omylowé dle Shakespeara wzdělaná weselohra...

    Prague, Jozefa Fetterlowá, ‘in the...

    First edition in Czech, very rare, of A...

    £1100

  17. REYES, Alfonso.

    Corrected carbon typescript, signed, of...

    [Buenos Aires?, c. 1952–3.]

    Corrected carbon typescript of Alfonso...

    £1000

  18. ROSSI, Ottavio, and Bartolomeo FONTANA, compiler.

    Lettere del Sig. Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte...

    Brescia, Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621.

    First edition of over 150 letters by the...

    £1250

  19. [HEMSTERHUIS, François.] 

    Alexis ou de l’age d’or. 

    Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. 

    First edition of Hemsterhuis’s philosophical...

    £375

  20. BEBEL, August, and Daniel DE LEON, translator.

    Woman under socialism. Translated from...

    New York, Labor News Press, 1904.

    First edition in English, first printing,...

    £125