Recent Acquisitions
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[DAGUERRE.] MAYER & PIERSON [after Charles Richard MEADE.]
Carte-de-visite albumen print portrait...
Paris, late 1860s.
In 1848 the pioneering American photographer...
£1200
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PORTA, Giambattista della.
De humana physiognomonia … libri IIII;...
Hanau, Wilhelm Antonius for [Frankfurt,]...
The second Latin edition and the first...
£2500
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[BIBLE, Ecclesiasticus.]
Σοφια Σειραχ sive Ecclesiasticus,...
Franeker, Gilles van den Rade, 1596.
First editions of two scholarly works...
£1250
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MILL, John Stuart, and Nikolai Gavrilovich CHERNYSHEVSKY, translator.
Osnovaniia politicheskoi ekonomii s nekotorymi...
St. Petersburg, [n.p.], 1865.
First complete edition of Mill’s Principles...
£3750
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[PRIMER.]
Nouvel alphabet en français, divisé par...
Orléans, ‘Chez Berthevin, libraire’,...
An unrecorded Orléans-printed devotional...
£450
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[CATECHISM.]
A B C D … Orazione Dominicale … Salutazione...
Bologna, [Ferdinando Pisarri] ‘all’insegna...
An apparently unrecorded ABC and catechism...
£3500
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[ROUSSEAU, Pierre.]
Considérations sur le théatre de l’opéra. ...
[Paris,] de l’imprimerie de Rignoux, [1822].
Very rare proposal for a new opera house...
£475
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[THOMAS À KEMPIS.]
Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...
Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...
Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...
£4000
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TYRE, William, Archbishop of, and Giuseppe OROLOGGI (translator).
Historia della guerra sacra di Gierusalemme,...
Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562.
First Italian edition of William of...
£2800
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PONTANO, Giovanni.
De rebus coelestibus.
Naples, ‘ex officina Sigismundi Mayr...
First editions of three works on cosmology,...
£11000
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PATRICIUS, Franciscus (Croatian: Franjo Petriš or Frane Petrić, Italian: Francesco Patrizi).
Della poetica di Francesco Patrizi. [Part...
Ferrara, Vittorio Baldini, 1586.
First edition, a copy with contemporary...
£1250
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MACROBIUS, Ambrosius Theodosius.
Somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis libro De...
Venice, Filippo Pinzi, 29 October 1500.
Sixth and last incunable edition of...
£9500
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DIODORUS Siculus.
Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est,...
Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.
Important edition, the first to be overseen...
£2500
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CASAL, Gaspar do.
Axiomata christiana ex divinis scripturis...
Coimbra, João da Barreira and João Alvares,...
First edition of Gaspar do Casal’s...
£2500
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ANGELI, Alessandro degli.
In astrologos coniectores libri quinque...
Lyons, Horace Cardon, 1615.
First edition of this thorough attack...
£1600
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SENECA, Lucius Annaeus.
L. Annei Senecae opera, et ad dicendi...
Basel, ‘in officina Frobeniana’, 1529...
Second Erasmus edition of the moral...
£5000
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VALERIUS MAXIMUS, Gaius.
Factorum dictorumque memorabilium libri...
Mainz, Ivo Schoeffer, 1544.
An attractive copy, with an interesting...
£1500
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RUFIANDER, Fabius Jocosus, pseud. [Friedrich Julius ROTTMANN].
Curiöse Inaugural Disputation von dem...
‘Teutschland, Gedruckt in denen Hundes-Tagen,...
First edition, very rare, of this satirical...
£675
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RIDOLFI, Luca Antonio.
Aretefila, dialogo, nel quale da una parte...
Lyons, Guillaume Rouillé, 1562.
Annotated copy, once owned by a music...
£2800
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OZEROV, Vladislav Aleksandrovich.
Sochineniia … Chast’ pervaia [–vtoraia]...
St Petersburg, Imperial Theatre, 1817 [-1816].
One of two rival collected editions...
£1800