Recent Acquisitions
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VIRGIL.
Pub. Virgilii Maronis Bucolicorum eclogae...
Geneva, Étienne Gamonet, 1610.
Scarce edition of Virgil's Eclogues,...
£650
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[BOLEYN, Anne, et al.]
‘Amori stravaganti per avvertenza d’amici...
[Italy, early eighteenth-century.]
A fascinating manuscript compendium...
£1750
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GRANDI, Guido.
Instituzioni delle sezioni coniche …...
Venice, Gio. Battista Recurti, 1746.
Uncommon third edition with numerous...
£400
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DEGUERLE, Jean Nicolas Marie.
Les amours.
Paris, Maison and Pigoreau, An V [1797-8].
An apparently unrecorded collection...
£385
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[WILLIAMS, John.] The History of the Gunpowder-Treason,...
London, Richard Chiswel, 1678.
First edition of an anti-popish history...
£750
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CLARK, James.
A Treatise on the Prevention of Diseases...
Edinburgh, for the Author, and sold by...
Two important texts on farriery (second...
£750
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YARRELL, William.
A History of British Fishes … illustrated...
London, Samuel Bentley for John van...
First collected editions, with an autograph...
£750
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ORDINAL.
‘Prieres et ceremonies de l’ordination...
Diocese of Soissons, France, 1766.
An attractive manuscript ordinal detailing...
£600
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VALENTINE, James (photographer).
Album of Scottish views, mainly of Stirling...
c. 1870s.
A handsome example of a topographical view...
£600
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[UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.]
Subscription list for repairs to the College...
[Oxford, n.p., c. 1860].
A printed appeal from University College,...
£50
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[TRIALS.]
Authentick Coppie of the Tryal of Scot...
London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer...
First edition of this London trial of Scottish...
£45
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[SCOTLAND.]
Seventeen pamphlets relating mostly to...
Aberdeen and Edinburgh, 1772-1788.
An interesting sammelband relating largely...
£850
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[RENNEVILLE, Sophie de?].
Contes a Aglaé, ou la jeune moraliste.
Paris, Caillou, c.1820.
Very uncommon edition, possibly the first,...
£285
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[POPULAR DEVOTION].
L’heureuse benediction des maisons.
Vannes, N. De Lamarzelle, [c.1840].
A wonderful devotional broadside printed...
£250
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[LITURGY].
Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata;...
Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.
As far as we are aware unrecorded edition...
£335
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[LAFONT, Joseph de.]
Hypermnestre, tragedie, mise au theatre...
Lyon, de l’imprimerie d’Aymé Delaroche...
Very scarce Lyon edition of the libretto...
£275
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LA SERRIE, François-Joseph de.
Dithyrambes, ou petites élégies; dédiées...
Nantes, chez Brun, 1816.
Very rare first edition of this collection...
£375
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KOCH, Mansuetus.
Philosophia transnaturalis, sive metaphysica,...
Augsburg, Maria Magdalena Utzschneiderin,...
Only edition (complete despite the pagination)...
£225
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KOCH, Manfred (pr.), Primo SCHLECHTEN and Feliciano SCHARRER (resp.).
Philosophia rationalis sive logica, centum...
Augsburg, Sturmin, 1695.
A good copy of this rare dissertation from...
£285
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HOPE, Sir Thomas, of Craighall.
Contemporary manuscript of ‘Ane Breiff...
[Scotland? Mid-seventeenth century?]
Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall (1573-1646)...
£3250