Recent Acquisitions

  1. [JOBERT, Louis, and Arcangelo AGOSTINI (translator).] 

    La scienza delle medaglie antiche e moderne. ...

    Venice, Lorenzo Baseggio, 1728. 

    First Italian translation of a synopsis...

    £450

  2. OWEN, John. 

    Epigrammatum Ioan Oweni Cambro-Britanni...

    Breslau, Esaias Fellgiebel, 1658. 

    Scarce Breslau-printed edition of John...

    £875

  3. LAWRENCE, James Henry. 

    A Picture of Verdun, or the English Detained...

    London, T. Hookham junior & E.T. Hookham,...

    First edition of this remarkable account...

    £600

  4. CARO, Annibale.

    Rime del commendatore Annibal Caro. Col...

    Venice, Aldus Manutius the Younger, 1569.

    First edition of the poetry of Annibale...

    £750

  5. WADDINGTON, George and Barnard HANBURY.

    Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia...

    London, John Murray, 1822.

    First edition, with interesting provenance,...

    £875

  6. PARKES, Fanny.

    Wanderings of a pilgrim, in search of the...

    London, Pelham Richardson, 1850.

    First edition, with many handsome tinted...

    £3750

  7. CORBOULD, Henry (illustrator).

    [Cover title:] Illustrations to Theodric,...

    London, Edward Lacey, 1829.

    Unrecorded, a suite of five engravings...

    £650

  8. [SARPI, Paolo (pseud.).] ‘Pietro Soave POLANO’. 

    Historia del Concilio Tridentino di Pietro...

    Geneva, Pierre Aubert, 1629. 

    Second edition, the first to omit the...

    £450

  9. [MURDER.]

    Arrest de la cour du Parlement, qui condamne...

    Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1778.

    Very rare decree documenting the crimes...

    £175

  10. [OFFICE OF THE DEAD.] 

    Uffizio de’ morti, ad uso delle confraternite...

    Turin, Bernardino Barberis, 1805. 

    An apparently unrecorded Turin-printed...

    £225

  11. WYLD, James.

    The islands of Japan by James Wyld, geographer...

    London, James Wyld, 1 January 1859.

    Rare folding map of Japan by James Wyld...

    £1950

  12. TARTAGLIA, Niccolò Fontana.

    Quesiti, et inventioni diverse.

    Venice, Venturino Ruffinelli ‘ad instantia...

    First edition, annotated throughout...

    £6750

  13. HELMAN, Isidore-Stanislas-Henri.

    Faits mémorables des empereurs de la Chine,...

    Paris, chez l’auteur … et chez M....

    Two handsome engraved works by the French...

    £6000

  14. HAYLEY, William, and William BLAKE (illustrator).

    Ballads … founded on Anecdotes relating...

    Chichester, J. Seagrave, for London,...

    First edition of William Hayley’s...

    £3500

  15. [LE NOBLE, Pierre, and Eustache LE NOBLE (attributed).] 

    Les Amours d’Anne d’Austriche, Epouse...

    ‘A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1696’...

    An early manuscript copy of a salacious...

    £850

  16. LEBRUN. 

    Souvenirs d’une coureuse de rues, dite...

    Brussels, Joostens, Imprimeur-Libraire-Editeur,...

    First and only edition of this salacious...

    £400

  17. [PAPER TRADE.] 

    Arrest du conseil d’état du roi, portant...

    [Besançon?, 1772?] 

    A seemingly unrecorded issue of this...

    £175

  18. [ALMANACK.] 

    Lunario per l’anno 1855.  Dell’insigne...

    Florence, brothers Formigli, 1854. 

    A curious and very rare almanack for...

    £400

  19. GIBELLI, Giacinto. 

    Due dissertazioni sopra li vantaggi, che...

    Genoa, Paolo Scionico, 1767. 

    First and only edition, rare, of these...

    £600