Recent Acquisitions

  1. [VICTORIA: DIAMOND JUBILEE.]

    Photograph album: ‘Hampton Court “Jubilee”...

    Hereford, F. Preece, 1897.

    An attractive album memorialising a...

    £500

  2. [MOREAN WAR.]

    Journal of the Venetian Campaigne, A.D. 1687. under...

    London, H.C. for R. Taylor, 1688.

    First edition of an important account...

    £2500

  3. ‘PUBLICOLA’, pseud.

    An answer to an audacious letter from John...

    London, [s.n.], 1732.

    An extremely rare pamphlet of economic...

    £450

  4. JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianus, Lucius Annaeus FLORUS, and Sextus RUFUS.

    Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor...

    Paris, Jean Petit [and Jean Marchant], [1509].

    A collection of abbreviated Roman histories,...

    £1850

  5. [HIGHWAYMEN.]

    Processo formato contro due famosissimi...

    Milan, Pietro Francesco Malatesta, [1744].

    Seemingly unrecorded printing of the...

    £500

  6. GARCÍA LORCA, Federico.

    Mariana Pineda. Romance popular en tres...

    Madrid, La Farsa, 1928.

    First edition of Lorca’s first published...

    £450

  7. [BOOKPLATE.]

    Design for an ex libris for Cortlandt...

    c. 1910?

    The aviator, traveller, and book collector...

    £600

  8. [ALMANACK.]

    Revill’s illustrated Pocket Keepsake...

    [London,] Simpkins for M. E. Revill, [1884].

    An unrecorded Christmas gift book, charmingly...

    £225

  9. ZAPPI, Giambattista; Faustina MARATTI.

    Rime di Giambattista Felice Zappi e di...

    Nice, Société typographique, 1781.

    Uncommon Nice printing of the collected...

    £200

  10. PRIOR, Matthew.

    Poems on several Occasions.

    London, printed for Jacob Tonson and John...

    First edition, a subscriber’s copy...

    £5000

  11. LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

    Le Père Noël supplicié.

    [Paris, Chantenay, 1952.]

    Rare first separate appearance, a presentation...

    £250

  12. LAING, John.

    An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;...

    [Balfour for], London, J. Mawman and David...

    First edition of Laing’s account of...

    £850

  13. [JUVENILE.]

    The Weasel Family.

    London, Edinburgh, and New York, T. Nelson...

    First edition, rare, of a rather charming...

    £375

  14. JENKINS, Edward.

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

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

    A reissue of the illustrated edition,...

    £100

  15. HARDY, Campbell.

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

    London, Hurst and Blackett, 1855.

    First edition of this most interesting...

    £575

  16. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett.

    Poems before Congress …

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

    First edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s...

    £200

  17. BLANFORD, William Thomas.

    Observations on the Geology and Zoology...

    London, Macmillan and Co., 1870.

    First edition of the geologist and naturalist...

    £300

  18. 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

  19. [PARKER, Richard Green; Junkichi KATAYAMA 片山 淳吉, editor.]

    物理階梯 [Butsuri kaitei; 'A Guide...

    Gifu Prefecture, Ministry of Education,...

    First edition, very rare, of Japan’s...

    £1750

  20. [BENDISCIOLI, Faustino.]

    Quadro ossia saggio epilogato del Sistema...

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

    An impassioned tract attacking the claims...

    £200