Recent Acquisitions

  1. [BANK OF SCOTLAND.]

    Act of Parliament for erecting a bank in...

    Edinburgh, printed by the heirs and successors...

    Very rare edition of the Act of Parliament...

    £650

  2. [MACKY, John.]

    A Journey through England. In familiar...

    London: Printed for J. Hooke … 1722.

    Second edition of Vol. I, more than...

    £950

  3. [WISHART, George.]

    I. G. de rebus auspiciis serenssimi, &...

    [Amsterdam or The Hague,] 1647.

    First edition, rare, a fine paper copy...

    £1750

  4. [WALKER, Patrick.]

    Some remarkable Passages of the Life and...

    Glasgow: J. and M. Robertson, 1794.

    Very rare chapbook life of the Covenanter...

    £225

  5. SPOTISWOOD, John.

    An Introduction to the Knowledge of the...

    Edinburgh: William Brown and John Mosman,...

    Third edition, annotated by Neil Ballingall...

    £500

  6. MARTIN, Theodore, Sir.

    Horace and his Friends. Two Lectures delivered...

    Printed for private Circulation. 1881.

    First editions of two privately-printed...

    £400

  7. CHALMERS [CHAMBERS], David, Lord Ormond.

    Histoire abbregée de toutes les Roys de...

    Paris, Robert Coulombel ‘at the sign...

    First edition of the three principal...

    £2500

  8. [AQUHORTIES.]

    Abstract of the Rules and Regulations for...

    Edinburgh, J. Moir, [1799?].

    Broadside rules for the newly established...

    £850

  9. [ALMANACK.]

    Edinburgh Almanack, for the Year M.DCC.LI....

    Edinburgh, R. Fleming, and sold by the...

    Very rare Edinburgh almanack for the...

    £325

  10. LA SALLE, Jean-Baptiste, Saint. 

    Les règles de la bienséance et de la...

    Rheims, Le Batard [– Barbier], 1808. 

    Rare edition of La Salle’s pedagogical...

    £750

  11. BUCKNILL, Charles.

    Notes from medical lectures.

    London, February – April 1798.

    A most interesting medical manuscript...

    £4500

  12. JUVENAL.

    The Satires … translated: with explanatory...

    London: Printed for J. Nicholson, in...

    Third edition of this parallel-text...

    £1250

  13. [MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de, and Gaspar GIL POLO.]

    The Troublesome and Hard Adventures in...

    London, Printed by B. Alsop ... 1652...

    The rare second edition of a text of 1594...

    £7500

  14. [BROOKES, Joshua, Paul, or John?.]

    Bous Potamous, or the River Cow of Egypt,...

    [London, dated in manuscript May 1799.]

    Unique broadside advertising the exhibition,...

    £1850

  15. ARM’S OF TILLY (The).

    The Virtues and Effects, of the Remedy,...

    [Colophon:] Printe [sic] by John Enschedé,...

    Unrecorded printing of an advertising...

    £1500

  16. BOURNE, Immanuel.

    A Gold Chain of Directions, with twenty...

    London, Printed by J. Streater, for George...

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

    £1750

  17. [FORZONI, Stefano.] 

    Metodo facile trovato coll’esperienza...

    Florence, nella stamperia Bonducciana, 1772. 

    First and only edition of this rare...

    £275

  18. HOMER; Alexander POPE, translator

    The Odyssey of Homer.  Translated by Alexander...

    London, Baynes & Son (and others) [upper...

    Pocket-sized edition of Pope’s translations...

    £125

  19. HORACE. 

    ‘Horace en vers françois’. 

    [France, c. 1760.] 

    A seemingly unpublished handsome eighteenth-century...

    £650

  20. DENIS THE CARTHUSIAN. 

    I duo libri della dottrina & regole della...

    Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1565. 

    First edition of an Italian translation...

    £850