Recent Acquisitions

  1. [DE GRAAFT, attributed.]

    Avantures secrettes, et plaisantes. Recueillies...

    Brussels, George de Backer, 1696.

    Scarce first Brussels edition, published...

    £375

  2. [DAMPMARTIN, Pierre de; Charles SOREL, editor.]

    La fortune de la cour. Ouvrage curieux...

    Paris, Nicolas de Sercy, 1642.

    Rare second edition, revised and expanded...

    £500

  3. [DALLAS, Eneas Sweetland.]

    Kettner’s Book of the Table: A Manual...

    London, Dulau and Co., 1877.

    First edition of Dallas’s encyclopaedic...

    £180

  4. [CAJOT, Jean-Joseph.]

    Les plagiats de M. J.J.R. de Genève...

    The Hague and Paris, Durand, 1766.

    First edition of this scathing critique...

    £275

  5. [BOUDIER DE VILLEMERT, Pierre-Joseph.]

    L’ami des femmes.

    Paris, ‘Quay des Augustins’, 1759.

    Uncommon early edition, printed a year...

    £300

  6. BEROALDO, Filippo.

    Opusculum eruditum quo continetur Declamatio...

    [(Colophon:) Paris], Denis Roce, [1 August...

    Second Paris editions (first 1500) of Beroaldo’s...

    £3750

  7. [ARABIAN NIGHTS.]

    Arabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the...

    London, Faulder, and Hookham and Carpenter,...

    First edition of this translation of the...

    £1000

  8. XENOPHON; [Philipp MELANCHTHON, editor].

    Ξενοφωντος απαντα. Xenophontis...

    Schwäbisch Hall, [Peter Braubach], 1540.

    The first complete edition of Xenophon’s...

    £4000

  9. GALUPPI, Baldassare.

    Daniel in lacu leonum modi sacri recinendi...

    Venice, s.n., 1773.

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

    £650

  10. FOURCROY DE GUILLERVILLE, Jean-Louis de.

    Les Enfans élevés dans l’ordre de la...

    Paris, brothers Estienne, and Lausanne,...

    Second edition of Fourcroy de Guillerville’s...

    £250

  11. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

    Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc...

    Amsterdam, Jodocus Janssonius, 1644.

    Later edition of Erasmus’ highly influential...

    £125

  12. COLIN, Hyacinthe.

    Vie de la venerable servante de dieu Marie...

    Paris, Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hérissant, 1744.

    Uncommon first edition of this biography...

    £500

  13. CLAUDIANUS, Claudius; Tommaso MEDINA, translator.

    Il ratto di Proserpina di Claudio Claudiano...

    Brescia, Bettoni, 1804.

    Very rare first edition of a translation...

    £650

  14. CIGAULD, Vincent.

    Allegationes Vincentii … iudicis ordinarii...

    (Colophon:) Paris, Jean Frellon, 23 December...

    Extremely rare first edition of this legal...

    £2500

  15. BATTEN, Henry, and Henry VINER, composers and arrangers.

    Responses, Suffrages, Tersanctus, and Chants,...

    Penzance, Viner’s Musical Repository, 1844.

    Exceedingly rare first and only edition...

    £300

  16. THEODORET.

    Διαλογοι τρεις κατα τινων...

    Leipzig, [(colophon:) Ernst Vögelin], 1568.

    First edition of Strigel’s Latin translation...

    £1350

  17. STEPHANUS of Byzantium; HANNO; Abraham Van BERKEL, editor and translator.

    Genuina Stephani Byzantini de urbibus et...

    Leiden, Daniel van Gaasbeeck, 1674.

    First edition thus, a volume of short and...

    £450

  18. [‘ROBERTI, Antonius’, pseud.]; George PERKINS, editor.

    Clavis Homerica, reserans significationes,...

    London, E. Griffin for Godfrey Emerson, 1638.

    First London edition, ‘with the Catholic...

    £600

  19. LONGINUS, [Pseudo-]; Jonathan TOUP and David RUHNKEN, editors.

    Quae supersunt Graece et Latine.

    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1778.

    The first Toup edition of Longinus’ On...

    £375

  20. HOMER; Hubert VAN GIFFEN, editor.

    Οδυσσεια … Odyssea … Batrachomyomachia,...

    Cum praefatione, scholiis, & indice …...

    First Rihel edition of the Odyssey,...

    £850