Recent Acquisitions

  1. [LE MARCHE.] 

    Deed relating to the sale of property in...

    [Rome, 1616.] 

    A curiously bound public instrument...

    £850

  2. [OXFORD.] 

    Carmina quadragesimalia ab Aedis Christi...

    Oxford, ‘E Theatro Sheldoniano,’ 1723...

    First edition of humorous verses in...

    £500

  3. [MEIN, Robert.] 

    A Nominal Encomium on the Election of Magistrates...

    [Edinburgh, 1764.] 

    First edition, very rare, a poem...

    £450

  4. VILLA, Antonio, and Giovanni Battista VILLA. 

    Dispositio systematica conchyliarum terrestrium...

    Milan, ex typis Borroni et Scotti, 1841. 

    First edition of this catalogue of molluscs...

    £275

  5. LUBLER, Johannes. 

    Tractatus de incendio antehac nunquam editus...

    Liège, Lambert Thonon, 1701. 

    Rare second edition of this legal study...

    £450

  6. SANNAZARO, Jacopo. 

    Iacobi Sannazarii Opera omnia latine scripta,...

    Venice, heirs of Aldus Manutius and Andreas...

    Enlarged posthumous Aldine edition of...

    £550

  7. [ALMANAC.] 

    Le double Liègeois, almanach journalier...

    Liège and Paris, Stahl, [1841]. 

    Rare issue of the long-running and highly...

    £225

  8. [TURNER, John.] 

    Sufferings of John Turner, chief mate of...

    London, Plummer for Thomas Tegg, [1809]. 

    Scarce account of piracy and shipwreck,...

    £1500

  9. MAGALHÃES, Gabriel de. 

    A new history of China, containing a description...

    London, Thomas Newborough, 1688. 

    First edition of the English translation...

    £3750

  10. MARVIN, Charles Thomas. 

    ‘The manuscript of’ Colonel Grodekoff’s...

    London, Wm H. Allen, 1880. 

    Marvin’s own manuscript of his English...

    £4750

  11. CLÜVER, Philipp. 

    Introductio in universam geographiam tam...

    Wolfenbüttel, Caspar Johann Bismarck...

    The 1686 edition of perhaps the most...

    £2500

  12. BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis). 

    Travels in Arabia, comprehending an account...

    London, Henry Colburn, 1829. 

    First edition, in one volume, recounting...

    £3750

  13. [POPE, Walter.] 

    The Memoires of Monsieur Du Vall: containing...

    London, Printed for Henry Brome … 1670. 

    First(?) edition of a partly fictitious...

    £750

  14. ARM’S OF TILLY (The). 

    The Virtues and Effects of the Remedy,...

    [Colophon:] Printe [sic] by John Enschedé,...

    Unrecorded printing of an advertising...

    £1500

  15. [ZATTA, Antonio.]

    Il filosofo del nord, ovvero Corso di morale...

    ‘Londra’ [i.e. Venice, Zatta], 1788.

    First edition under this title of this...

    £725

  16. [SOUTH OF FRANCE.]

    ‘Routes de Privas à Nîmes 1892’.

    June-July 1892.

    A nice sketchbook, by an anonymous artist,...

    £575

  17. BUCKNILL, Charles.

    Notes from medical lectures.

    London, February – April 1798.

    A most interesting medical manuscript...

    £4500

  18. BACON, Francis. 

    Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio,...

    London, Edward Griffin [and John Haviland]...

    First edition, first issue, a copy from...

    £3500

  19. ALDINGTON, Richard.

    All Men are Enemies, a Romance.

    London, Chatto & Windus, 1933.

    First trade edition, inscribed ‘For...

    £200

  20. DURRELL, Lawrence.

    Collected Poems.

    London, Faber and Faber, [1960].

    First edition, inscribed ‘For Geoff...

    £400