Recent Acquisitions
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ROTHSCHILD, Boaz Raphael.
[Sefer oniyah b’lev yam … Chelek rishon]....
Fürth, Chaim ben Zvi Hirsch, 1766.
First part of the first and only edition...
£450
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[WASHINGTON, George.] PAINE, Thomas.
An Eulogy on the Life of General George...
Newburyport, Edmund M. Blunt, 1800.
First edition of this eulogy on Washington,...
£250
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[HONE, William, et al.]
Sammelband of satirical pamphlets.
London, mostly William Hone, 1818-1821,...
A sammelband of political satire from...
£1250
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[LOUIS XIV.]
L’oraison funebre de tres-haute, tres-excellente...
‘Cologne’, s.n., ‘1705’ [1704].
Sole edition, very rare and virtually...
£1250
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[POETRY.]
‘Récueil de differentes pieces de vers,...
[Belgium, 1777 and later].
An interesting commonplace of verses,...
£750
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NICHOLSON, Joseph Shield.
Tenant’s Gain not Landlord’s Loss,...
Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1883.
First edition. ‘The vitality of...
£250
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RICHARDUS ANGLICUS.
Correctorium alchymiae ... Das is reformierte...
Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1581.
First edition of ‘a very rare collection’...
£4500
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RUYRA, Joaquim and Carles FONTSERÈ, illustrator.
La fi del món a Girona.
Paris, [Gaston Hallépée], [31 July] 1946.
First separate edition, one of fifteen...
£450
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TACITUS and J.N. LALLEMAND, editor.
Quae exstant opera.
Paris, J. Barbou for Desaint & Saillant, 1760.
A handsomely bound set, with striking...
£750
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TASSO, Torquato.
Il rogo di Corinna, et la fenice ...
Venice, Evangelista Deuch[ino], 1621....
A strikingly bound copy of Deuchino’s...
£750
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TENNYSON, Alfred, [later Lord]; A. L. BOND, illustrator.
The Miller’s Daughter …
London, Published by W. Kent & Co late...
A handsome edition of The Miller’s...
£120
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PRIESTLEY, J. B.
Angel Pavement …
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1930.
First edition, the deluxe issue, no. 308...
£150
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ALABASTER, William.
Roxana tragaedia olim Cantabrigiae, acta...
London, R. Badger for Andrew Crook, 1632.
The pirated first edition (the first...
£1500
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YARRELL, William.
A History of British Fishes … illustrated...
London, Samuel Bentley for John van Voorst,...
First collected editions, with an autograph...
£750
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COSTER, François.
Piarum et Christ. institutionum libri...
Douai, Jean Bogard, 1582.
Very rare Douai edition of this devotional...
£675
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JUVENAL.
The Satires … translated: with explanatory...
London: Printed for J. Nicholson, in...
Third edition of this parallel-text...
£1250
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ARISTOTLE; Ermolao BARBARO, translator.
De arte dicendi libri III.
Paris, [Michel de] Vascosan, 1549.
Rare first Vascosan edition of Aristotle’s...
£650
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CONTI, Natale.
Mythologiæ, sive explicationis fabularum,...
Frankfurt, the heirs of André Wechel, 1584.
Scarce Frankfurt edition of the Mythologiae...
£950
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THICKNESSE, Philip.
A Year’s Journey through the Paix Bâs...
I [all published]. London: Printed...
First edition, rare, and possibly suppressed,...
£1850
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[PSALMS.]
Les Pseaumes de David, mis en Vers François,...
Amsterdam, ‘aux dépens de l’Eglise...
New edition of the metrical Psalms of...
£950