Recent Acquisitions
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[JOBERT, Louis, and Arcangelo AGOSTINI (translator).]
La scienza delle medaglie antiche e moderne. ...
Venice, Lorenzo Baseggio, 1728.
First Italian translation of a synopsis...
£450
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OWEN, John.
Epigrammatum Ioan Oweni Cambro-Britanni...
Breslau, Esaias Fellgiebel, 1658.
Scarce Breslau-printed edition of John...
£875
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LAWRENCE, James Henry.
A Picture of Verdun, or the English Detained...
London, T. Hookham junior & E.T. Hookham,...
First edition of this remarkable account...
£600
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CARO, Annibale.
Rime del commendatore Annibal Caro. Col...
Venice, Aldus Manutius the Younger, 1569.
First edition of the poetry of Annibale...
£750
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WADDINGTON, George and Barnard HANBURY.
Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia...
London, John Murray, 1822.
First edition, with interesting provenance,...
£875
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PARKES, Fanny.
Wanderings of a pilgrim, in search of the...
London, Pelham Richardson, 1850.
First edition, with many handsome tinted...
£3750
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CORBOULD, Henry (illustrator).
[Cover title:] Illustrations to Theodric,...
London, Edward Lacey, 1829.
Unrecorded, a suite of five engravings...
£650
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[SARPI, Paolo (pseud.).] ‘Pietro Soave POLANO’.
Historia del Concilio Tridentino di Pietro...
Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1629.
Second edition, the first to omit the...
£450
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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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[OFFICE OF THE DEAD.]
Uffizio de’ morti, ad uso delle confraternite...
Turin, Bernardino Barberis, 1805.
An apparently unrecorded Turin-printed...
£225
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WYLD, James.
The islands of Japan by James Wyld, geographer...
London, James Wyld, 1 January 1859.
Rare folding map of Japan by James Wyld...
£1950
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TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.
Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.
Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli ‘ad instantia...
First edition, annotated throughout...
£6750
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HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas-Henri.
Faits mémorables des empereurs de la Chine,...
Paris, chez l’auteur … et chez M....
Two handsome engraved works by the French...
£6000
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HAYLEY, William, and William BLAKE (illustrator).
Ballads … founded on Anecdotes relating...
Chichester, J. Seagrave, for London,...
First edition of William Hayley’s...
£3500
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[LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).]
Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse...
‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’...
An early manuscript copy of a salacious...
£850
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LEBRUN.
Souvenirs d’une coureuse de rues, dite...
Brussels, Joostens, Imprimeur-Libraire-Editeur,...
First and only edition of this salacious...
£400
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[PAPER TRADE.]
Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...
[Besançon?, 1772?]
A seemingly unrecorded issue of this...
£175
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[ALMANACK.] ‘CHOTESCHAU, Christian Joachim, von’ [pseud. Johann Franz NOWAK].
Neuer Titular-Calender zu ehren des H. Wenceslai...
Prague, Georg Labaun, [1713].
An annotated Bohemian almanack for the...
£875
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[ALMANACK.]
Lunario per l’anno 1855. Dell’insigne...
Florence, brothers Formigli, 1854.
A curious and very rare almanack for...
£400
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GIBELLI, Giacinto.
Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...
Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767.
First and only edition, rare, of these...
£600