Recent Acquisitions
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XENOPHON.
De Cyri regis Persarum vita atque disciplina,...
Paris, Andreas Wechel, 1572.
First edition of Joachim Camerarius’...
£875
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GONZAGA, Curzio.
Il Fido amante, poema eroico.
Mantua, [(colophon:) Giacomo Ruffinello, 1582].
First edition of an Italian Renaissance...
£600
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ARIOSTO, Ludovico.
Le Rime … non piu viste, & nuovamente...
Venice, [Coppa,] 1546.
First edition of Ludovico Ariosto’s...
£1000
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MARTIAL.
M. Ualerii Martialis epigrammata. Opera,...
Cuneo, typis Ioannis Baptistae Benentini, 1705.
Scarce pocket edition of Martial’s...
£175
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[HUET, Pierre-Daniel.]
Le grand tresor historique et politique...
Paris, François Fournier, 1714.
Later edition of this work on Dutch...
£100
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[ENGHIEN, Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon, duc d’.]
Détails sur l’arresration [sic] & la...
[Paris?, c. 1804?].
Unrecorded popular broadside recounting...
£300
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[POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.]
Collection of 11 treatises.
Spain, c. 1750.
A highly interesting manuscript compendium...
£975
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HEXHAM, Henry.
A Tongue-Combat, lately happening betweene...
Printed at London [i.e. Holland]. 1623.
First edition, written in reply to a...
£1650
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[POLEMON, John].
The second Part of the Booke of Batailles,...
At London, Printed for Giles Cawood. 1587.
First edition, scarce. Polemon had...
£2750
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[CICERO, Marcus Tullius.]
Commentarii Philippicarum Marci Ciceronis...
Paris. Thomas Caseus for Jean Petit, [1514].
Rare edition, attractively printed and...
£950
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COMIDAS DE CARBOGNANO, Cosimo.
Primi principi della gramatica Turca ad...
Rome, stamperia della Sac. Congr. di Prop....
The first complete Ottoman Turkish grammar...
£1500
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VARCHI, Benedetto.
Three signed letters, two of which are...
Florence, 1535, 1553, [n.d].
A unique source for Cinquecento Florence...
£4750
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[ANON., possibly a Jesuit author.]
Tragedia di Santa Caterina detta d’Alessandria...
[Italy, early seventeenth century.]
Remarkably interesting early Italian...
£3750
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LALIEU, Paul and Nicolas Joseph BEAUTOUR.
‘P[hiloso]phia particularis data sub...
Douai, France, 1739-1740.
A fascinating manuscript course of lectures...
£3750
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HESIOD.
Poemata Hesiodi Ascraei, quae extant, omnia,...
Basel, ex officina Oporiniana, [1574].
A handsome copy of Hesiod’s poems,...
£1400
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ALBERTUS de Padua.
Evangeliorum quadragesimalium opus aureum...
Venice, Jacob Pentius de Leucho, May 1523.
First edition, in a contemporary Venetian...
£2000
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[VICES.]
An Address to the hopeful young Gentry...
London, Printed by E. C. for G. Walbanke...
First edition of a very scarce, and...
£1600
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[FANCY DRESS.]
Photograph album of costumes and accessories.
Derby, 1920s?
A delightful album of fancy dress costumes...
£375
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VALENTINELLI, Giuseppe.
Specimen bibliographicum de Dalmatia et...
Venice, typis Caecinianis et soc., 1842.
First edition of this bibliography of...
£275
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[SOUTH OF FRANCE.]
‘Routes de Privas à Nîmes 1892’.
June-July 1892.
A nice sketchbook, by an anonymous artist,...
£700